find and run the Inbox Repair tool in Outlook Scanpst

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find and run the Inbox Repair tool in Outlook Scanpst

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Scanost.exe is used in earlier versions of Outlook to verify the integrity of synchronized data. You can still run the Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) on an offline Outlook Data File (.ost) to check and repair the internal data structures. Because this Scanpst.exe process can take a long time to run, you may decide instead to replace the offline Outlook Data File (.ost) as described earlier. Also, because Scanpst.exe makes a backup copy of the .pst or .ost file that is being scanned, you may be limited by disk space. For more information about Scanpst.exe, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
272227 How to find and run the Inbox Repair tool in Outlook

I would suggest running scanpst.exe, it will check for integrity violations, but it will make your outlook unusable for a while.
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