How to Recover Password-protected Outlook PST Files

At times some Outlook users end up forgetting the password they had set for their PST files. In this article, we look at recovering the contents of such files with help of the DataNumen Outlook Repair application.

The MS Outlook application has been designed to take care of a whole array of needs that a user might have while working on their emails. Quite expectedly it provides for security features too and one can set a password to protect their Outlook PST files. However, at times you may end up forgetting the password you had set on a PST file which can put you in a situation where you lose access to your emails. In some cases, employees in small business setup use PST files to store their email data and when the next employee takes up the office system he may find the files protected by a password. To deal with such situations you need a tool that can extract the contents of a password-protected PST file in a quick time.

Understanding the Password Protection Feature Present in MS Outlook

When you create a new PST file in Outlook you get to see three options for encryption settings to choose from. These are namely No Encryption, Comprehensible Encryption, and High Encryption. If you choose either the Comprehensible or the High Encryption option and set a password, the Outlook PST file will get encrypted and next time when you need to open the file it would ask you to enter a password. 

Extracting the Contents of a Password Protected PST file with the Help of DataNumen Outlook Repair Application

Now if you have a password-protected PST file which you need to access, you can rely upon the DataNumen Outlook Repair application to extract its content. You might be wondering how a recovery tool can remove the password from an encrypted file. Well, the answer is simple; this versatile application has the prowess to extract contents from even an Outlook PST file protected with High Encryption within minutes. To achieve this just launch the application and select the password-protected file as a file that needs to be recovered. The application will automatically set an output file name or you can choose to add a custom name for the output file. Once set just click on the Start Repair button. The application will repair Outlook file, extract all contents from the file and store them in the output file while removing the encryption. You can then open the output file normally in the Outlook application without the need for a password.

Why Small Businesses Running the Outlook Application Must Invest in DataNumen Outlook Repair Application

If you are running a small business, it is quite possible you and your colleagues are using the MS Outlook application to manage your business email. In many small firms, employees directly download their emails from Webhost provided email ids directly into an Outlook application. This is due to the fact the setting up an Exchange mail server can be costly for small firms and they just rely on Outlook to manage their emails. While this approach is inexpensive, it leaves you at great risk if an incident of PST corruption happens in your firm. Ideally, you should keep a copy of DataNumen Outlook Repair handy to deal with such situations and always keep your emails accessible