How to Recover Lost Password for Archive.pst?
Posted by admin on December 5th, 2009PST archiving is a good practice that keeps your original PST small and Outlook free from performance issues. You can either do it manually or use autoarchive option of Outlook. An archive.pst may contain confidential emails. To prevent them from unauthorized access, you can set a password for your archive.pst file. This can be done at the time you create the PST or at some later point of time. In case when you forget or lose the PST password, the emails stored become inaccessibile. To overcome such situations, you require the file to restore from backup or apply an Outlook Password Recovery product that could efficiently recover lost password for affected PST.To ilustrate such email loss scenarios, consider you create an archive of your old emails in Outlook. You set a complicated PST password and don’t save it in password list. Later, when you try to open the file, you forget the password and the file remains unopened.
Cause
You cannot open a password-protected PST until you provide a correct password for it. Such situations specifically occur when you don’t save the file password using ‘Save this password in your password list’ option while creating the folder or before successful log in.
Solution
These measures can help to solve the password loss problem for your archive PST:
Try to remember the password and open the password-protected PST
If you cannot recall the specified password, check for the latest email backup you have. Restore from it if it is sufficient and clean
When backup doesn’t work, you should use a PST Password Recovery utility designed specifically to recover lost or forgotten PST passwords
Outlook Password Recovery tools are scanning based tools with advanced and unique technology to recover missing PST passwords. These are safe tools that scan the file using non-destructive algorithms. You can install these products easily and start the password recovery procedure as guided. The software instruct you through most simple steps and allow for one-click recovery. Most of the utilities provide you number of password options, using either of which you can gain access to your locked PST.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery v1.1 is a powerful and quick solution to recover lost or forgotten PST passwords. The PST Password Recovery utility recovers for files created with Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is a comprehensive solution that provides you multiple passwords. The tool is competent to restore the original data and emails.