Not the first time I've had this file go west but I let my back-up slip and the only file I have left to recover the (jackie's work) emails goes back to August last year...
Right...
Our OUTLOOK.PST file is corrupted and will not let me move/defrag/copy (cyclic redundancy problem, so stuffed). Anyway, I tried MS's SCANPST which fell over as-soon-as-tried - no fix from the makers - Mr Gates and his merry men - what a nice bunch... I then did some searching and found a fix-it tool on a recommended site...
Program downloaded (no names, no pack-drill) and set it to run (crikey, this is slow) and it continued to run (crikey, this is VERY slow), and run, and run, and run...
27 hours... 27 flipping hours...
Okay, so then I went to save the recovered file... and it asked for registration, so... then, and only then, did it ask for the fee... $129.00 and that is a discount price...
In my naivety, I thought freeware meant freeware, not con-ware - shut-down a system and let it run forever and give you no clue and then hit you with the bill... nice...
ps... not quite out of the woods... and no, I did not pay the ransom...