Yesterday I tried to move an e-mail from the inbox in my default PST to a PST I use for filing. I received a message that it couldn't move because the file was corrupt and I should run scanpst.

STEP ONE: I ran scanpst, but the problem persisted.

STEP TWO: I checked the file size and it was large (about 2.4G I believe) so I emptied the deleted items folders, and moved the sent mail to other folders. I then compacted the database. Now it was about 665K I think. The error persisted.

STEP THREE: I ran scanpst again after the compacting and the error still persisted.

STEP FOUR: I renamed the pst file and moved it to a different folder and then restored a pst file from two days ago from a backup when Outlook was working fine. The problem still persisted.

This is a critical show-stopper since I am afraid to receive e-mail into a file that may be corrupt (or since the backup which worked fine earlier now shows corrupt perhaps the problem is Outlook itself).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dale