MS outlook is undoubtedly the most trusted and advanced email management tool. It has all the features to manage your appointments, meetings, calendars, and more. However, just like any other email client, MS Outlook is also prone to numerous issues that can cause Outlook to behave abnormally, causing crashing, hanging, and freezing issues, to name a few. Many Outlook users have posted their queries regarding the critical error 0x8004019. It is critical in the sense that it prohibits the user from sending, receiving, and deleting email messages. It basically means that you can no longer access your PST files. This error code has known to have affected almost every version of Outlook from Windows XP to Windows 10.
It is a fact that large-sized PST files are prone to file corruption. These ginormous PST files are an easy target for damage and corruption, and issues and errors like 0x8004019.
The error 0x8004019 can be caused anytime during Outlook installation, Windows startup or shutdown or during OS installation. Also, it can be due to PST file corruption that can be triggered by various factors, some of these factors are listed below:
In this section, we will be discussing the most feasible solutions to get past the error code 0x8004019.
In order to repair the corrupt PST files, one needs to locate them first. To locate the PST files, follow the steps mentioned below:
Now we will proceed to locate the Scanpst.exe tool and will try to repair the affected PST file. The steps to repair a PST file is listed below:
Scanpst.exe can be found in the following location (depending on your version):
The inbuilt Scanpst.exe is not always successful in repairing the corrupt PST file because it can only look for the basic issues. Also, it has many limitations that make it unsuitable for severely corrupt or large-sized PST files.
So, there are many limitations that affect the Scanpst tool:
Kernel for Outlook PST Repair tool is a trusted tool to repair severely damaged large sized PST file. This PST repair tool can successfully save all the PST file data to a healthy PST file and different destinations such as live Exchange, Office 365, and different webmail clients.
In this blog post, we have briefly looked at the primary reasons behind the error code 0x8004019. In some cases, the error code 0x8004019 is caused due to PST file corruption. Outlook has an Inbuilt repair tool- Scanpst.exe to repair these corrupted files. But, in case your files are severely damaged, then this inbuilt repair tool is of no help. In such dire circumstances, one needs a reliable tool such as Kernel for Outlook PST Repair.