Hi, recently my Outlook PST got corrupted for some reason. I'm sure the fact it was almost exactly 2.0gb had a lot to do with this (although I thought this limit was long since fixed?).

Wonderfully, I discovered my new SyncToy backup process hadn't been
backing it up! Great.

Outlooks own recovery tool would not work, it would just fail without explaination, so I tried a number of 3rd party recovery tools. The only one I had much success with (without forking out hundreds of dollars - as a simple home user I couldn't legitimise this expense) was an application called R-Mail. However this had a side effect of tagging all of my old emails as Unsent Mail - i.e. all the email in my inbox sent to me by other people was labelled in the way you would expect email sitting in your outbox!

So my questions are twofold:

1. Is there any way to easily batch change these emails to 'received/read' rather than 'unsent'?


2. I still have a copy of the corrupted PST file - is there perhaps a better (preferably cheap or free) application I can try to recover my PST file?

3. Oh and any ideas why SyncToy, despite me telling it to backup the entire contents of My Documents, wasn't copying my Outlook PST contained therein?

I'm on Windows 7 Home and am running Outlook 2007 SP2.

Thanks!