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How do you get around a forgotten or unknown password on personal folders? The user swears he didn't put a password on it, yet there is 30 MB of data that he can't access without a password that he doesn't know. Is there any way to work around this and retrieve the data in his personal folders? Help!

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by ann777

The first thing I'd recommend in this situation is to make sure that the Personal Folders file (*.PST) is not write-protected. Right-click on the file and make sure that Read Only is NOT enabled. That will lock a file to Outlook's view and prevent access.

If the file is not read only, then you'd need to purchase one of the password crackers available for your version of Outlook or whatever e-mail software you are using.

by gigelul

I don't know your OS, mailing app and network enviroments. For NT with Outlook you can do this:
Make sure you have full rights on folder that contain <*.pst> file.
Login with full rights account and use options to recover data.
Also you can remove all user settings about mailing (store folder,profile,etc) and after that set again(eventualy copy PST file in other folder as bakup).

by allenmark

The deleted pst file can easily be recovered using scanpst.exe or third party pst repair tool. However, some time it happens that we forget password of PST files as a result the file becomes inaccessible. You can use a special Outlook pst password recovery tool to recover the lost PST password as it can not be recovered by scanpst.exe or normal pst recovery tool.

http://www.pstpasswordrecovery.com

by kristinbennett1911

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