Advanced Outlook Repair

CNET Editors' review

If you depend on Microsoft's Outlook, a good recovery tool can save the day if things go wrong. DataNumen's Advanced Outlook Repair 3.0 can recover email, folders, appointments, tasks, and anything else that holds your critical data in Outlook's Personal files (PST). AOR supports recovery of attachments, embedded objects, encrypted and password-protected PST files, and deleted Outlook items. It can handle immense files, which protects against obsolescence.

To use AOR, you must have Outlook installed as your default e-mail client. AOR's dialog-based interface is so intuitive that the fully indexed Help file seems almost superfluous. Tabs access Repair, Batch Repair, and Options, the latter offering an Advanced Options field in addition to the common settings, all clearly labeled. There are browse and search icons for both source and destination directories; we navigated to an older saved PST file that wouldn't open after upgrading from a 32-bit to a 64-bit OS. We chose to use AOR's Auto Determined Format feature, though you can enter specific Outlook versions in the format combo box. Clicking Repair displayed a log in the main window and activated a progress bar that displayed AOR's quick work fixing the file, which subsequently opened fine in Outlook: Totally easy. Recommended for any Microsoft Outlook user.

Editor's note: This is a review of the full version of Advanced Outlook Repair 3.0. The demo version will output a fixed PST file containing all the recovered messages and other items, with the actual contents in them filled with a demo information.

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All User Reviews
  • All versions:

    3.6 stars

    out of 19 votes

    • 5 star: 12
    • 4 star: 0
    • 3 star: 0
    • 2 star: 1
    • 1 star: 6
  • Current version:

    2.3 stars

    out of 3 votes

    • 5 star: 1
    • 4 star: 0
    • 3 star: 0
    • 2 star: 0
    • 1 star: 2
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  • 1.0 stars

    "Wouldn't upgrade - Customer Support is terrible"

    May 7, 2012  |   By webbuzzard

    Version: Advanced Outlook Repair 3.2

    Pros

    Easy to use, but it doesn't work.

    Cons

    It found the headers in the demo version. I then paid to upgrade to the full version, and the software didn't return anything more than "This is a demo version..."

    Summary

    If their customer support ever gets back to me with a solution, I'll change my rating, but for now, I'd say avoid it.

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  • 5.0 stars

    "Works fine"

    March 15, 2012  |   By atomhax

    Version: Advanced Outlook Repair 3.2

    Pros

    So far for 5 different corrupted PSTs it was sucessfull in my organization. Pretty Usefull. @nmarand , I tried the FULL version and it did not crash my laptop. I have a t420 thinkpad, with an i5. Pretty Standard right now. What were you using?

    Cons

    Takes a long time to scan. I am scanning an 18 gb pst and we're at 8 hours now. Time is money

    Summary

    Workes pretty good.

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  • 1.0 stars

    "Doesn't Work"

    April 23, 2011  |   By nmarand

    Version: Advanced Outlook Repair 3.2

    Pros

    Nonthing that I can recommend

    Cons

    Costly and doesn't work
    Doesn't worth the cost

    Summary

    Too much hype and no substance. I tried the trial version and not only could not scan the corrupted pst file it crashed my laptop too.

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