Unknown error 0x80040116 - What is it and How to Fix this Error in MS Outlook?
Microsoft
Outlook is widely used for running emails communication along with organizing other
objects of outlook file calendars, contacts, journals, contacts and task etc. Everything
works very smoothly and without problem until and unless you obtain an error
reported in Outlook or in another words when outlook shows infrequent behavior.
You have to make robust effort to identify the reason behind this but no
consequences as the actual reason of such behavior of Microsoft Outlook is the
PST File corruption.
What is
0x80040116 error code in MS Outlook?
As Microsoft
Outlook keeps all its items like- emails, notes, task, contacts, calendars,
appointments and journals etc in PST file. Consequently, it is very significant
to manage appropriately the Outlook .pst file. Due to several reasons the PST
file gets corrupted such as- faulty hardware devices, virus infection, pst file
size increased more than 2 GB and abrupt system shutdown etc. When Outlook .pst
file got corrupted or damaged then you may get the numbers of messages one of
them can be shown as below:-
Error
message:
Outlook.pst
cannot be accessed - 0x80040116
Unknown error - 0x80040116
This errors
show the corruption of PST file and you need solution to repair corrupted PST
file for re-accessing outlook database.
As .pst is the repository of all the significant outlook objects so this
is required to keep the whole backup of .pst file. You can also take important
prevention steps like compact PST file and Split the oversize PST file to not
to get a PST file oversize. But in case if you forget to maintain the backup
and PST file is still corrupted then you can software to repair corrupted or
damaged .pst file.
How to Fix
Outlook Unknown error - 0x80040116?
Microsoft
Outlook has its own inbuilt utility to repair damaged pst file which is called
Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe). Select
scanpst.exe utility, run it to scan the corrupted or damaged .pst file on your
system. This program may show you some errors and ask to fix by clicking on
Repair Button.
Note: - Before clicking repair, just
make the backup of .pst file
After
completed repairing process, you may get the recovered .pst file but due to the
certain limitation of Scanpst.exe sometime you may receive the same corrupted
or damaged .pst file. Therefore, only using third party tool is the best
option, utilize Enstella Outlook Repair Software that capable to repair all
outlook PST file and recover outlook emails, contacts, calendars, task and
journals etc. Outlook PST repair
software enables users to repair corrupted outlook file of every versions such
as- 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002(XP), 2000 and 97 (ANSI or UNICODE) file.
Best Outlook Repair Software to Repair
Outlook File
Enstella
Outlook Repair Software fix all issues of outlook file and gives the facility
to recover folders from corrupted Outlook file either selective or complete
with emails and restore them into outlook,
EML, MSG, HTML, MHTML, RTF, TXT, DOC, PDF, MBOX and Outlook Profile. The
software offers to split the recovered PST file upto 5GB to protect the outlook
file from 2GB corruption limitation. Multiple naming convention option is
provided to recover the emails by subject, subject + date, from + date+
subjects and date+ subject etc. Software provides messages filtering option
thereby you can define the two dates “from date” to “to date” to recover the
emails with attachments.
