"Data file did not close properly" error in Microsoft Outlook 2007!

MS Office 2007 is the latest version of Microsoft Office and MS Outlook 2007 is one of its components which can also be installed individually. For reliability, better performance, more benefits and improved features, many users are upgrading their older version of MS Outlook to this newer one. But this upgrading is not always safe and user may face post-upgradation issues with MS Outlook 2007. Among the issues PST corruption is the major one in which Outlook data files that stores the different data’s like notes, calendar, e-mails, contacts, etc. becomes inaccessible due to damaged PST. In such situations Outlook 2007 recovery measures need to be implemented including restoration of data from the latest backup and using Inbox Repair Tool. When this type of situations, attempt made to open MS Outlook 2007 will be refused and will throw an error message which will say -

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"A data file did not close properly the last time it was used and is being checked for problems. Performance might be affected while the check is in progress."

Further more, when the Outlook 2007 being checked ore it’s checking completes another message will be displayed –

"Data file check complete."

The above mentioned error messages will be displayed each time user will try to open the Outlook 2007. The reason of this error message is quite clear and that is Outlook data file is not closing properly and the PST file is affected from the corruption issue which is un-repairable at startup and need to be fixed manually. To repair the corrupted PST file of MS Outlook 2007 users need to follow certain steps. The steps are as follows –

  • First try to repair the corrupted Outlook PST file using inbuilt repair tool – ‘Scanpst.exe’.
  • Click Tools – Options – Mail Setup – Data files and note the complete path of the data files.
  • Open ‘Scanpst.exe’ or ‘Inbox Repair Tool’ and past the noted path of the data files to repair the damaged PST.
  • User need to check the ‘Make backup of scanned file before repairing’ option.

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If the ‘Inbox Repair Tool’ has repaired all the errors in the PST file, then users will easily able to open the MS Outlook 2007. But if the PST file is not repaired properly and the opening issue remains then user need to go with Outlook 2007 PST Repair software which will effectively repair the corrupted PST file using its sophisticated algorithm and restores the repaired PST file is safe location.