Outlook Data File Cannot Be Found – Get Solution for Error

Everybody knows that Microsoft® Outlook is one of the renowned emailing applications which is used an emailing applications. Though, it is considered versatile to use but corruption is not far away from its reach. You won't even come to know that how and when Outlook damage enters into your desktop and spoiled the entire data in few mouse clicks. Once Outlook data become damaged, you find issues like data inaccessibility. You can overcome this issue in few mouse clicks if you take some professional help. A very commonly seen error message that knocks at your door is, "Outlook Data file cannot be found". You must know the whereabouts of this error message before you look forward to resolve it.

Most of the time, this error based situation occurs in front of Outlook 2003 and 2007 edition users. When you open Outlook, 'Outlook Data file cannot be found' as an error message strikes on your computer screen. Complete error message is like this, "The file drive:\path\filename.pst could not be found."

The occurrence of this error message means you are expelled from opening PST files and carrying out any functionality. When you press OK on the error dialog box, Outlook will pop up window for 'Create/Open Personal Folders File.' This is basically for the time, when there is no default profile configured on the client.

Grounds for error:

This undesirable error pops up when Outlook finds messages in PST file under any of the following given situations:

• PST file in which Outlook deliver error messages is on mail server and which is now unavailable
• PST mailbox in which Outlook sends messages gets damaged and you are unable to locate Outlook precisely

Solutions you can try to resolve error:

When error message constantly appears on the screen, you look for the methods to come out of such scenarios. Some of the solutions which you can try are as follows:

• First of all open new PST file and fro opening this file, if there is unavailability of default profile, you can opt to open Personal Folders Files and press on Open to browse desirable PST file
• In the situation when PST file is available but Outlook is still bringing error message that 'Outlook Data file cannot be found' then it is sure that there must be some corruptness in PST file. For resolving this matter, you can use Inbox Repair tool or Scanpst.exe facility. This method will help in acknowledging the status of PST file and help in let you check the integrity of PST files.
• The issue of error message also happens when PST file located on the network drive were not supportive due to unsupported by LAN or WAN link.

There is nothing good then backup data: At the end, for repairing damaged PST file, you can numerous solutions. If they won't work well, use backup data available with you. However, before using backup data, ensure for clean data. You are short of current and clean backup data; you can get hold of some online solutions. External tools will help in resolving error like 'Outlook Data file cannot be found' in very short amount of time.

In the Nutshell: Usual the issue takes place when PST file is found corrupt just make sure that before trying any tricks of repairing your PST; you have made a backup for the same. You can look forward to install Outlook Recovery Software. This is powerful utility which help you to resolve all kinds of error messages happened because of any of the corruption issues. However, if you do want to miss a single opportunity with the tool then download free demo edition available for your help.