Resolve Outlook 0x80040116 error with Outlook PST Repair Tool
One of the frustrating errors of Microsoft Outlook is Outlook 0x80040116 error. This type of error generally occurs while sending or receiving emails or opening pst files. In this case whenever you try to open your Outlook you find that it fails to open and encounters an error message on your desktop.
“ Outlook.pst can not be accessed - 0x80040116 ”
Or
" Outlook.pst can not be accessed - 0x80040116(where "Outlook.pst" is your .pst file name) "
In such error you find that the archives files are even not able to be deleted due to the fatal error. While accessing Outlook in this condition become the cause of file loss situation. Generally you encounter this situation at the time of starting the Outlook or opening the .pst file. In order to fix 0x80040116 errors your first step is to recognize the cause of this error. The basic approach to fix this problem is un-installing your whole Outlook programs and reinstalling it. By this way you will have to lose your data so before doing this task keep a backup of your entire .pst file.
Otherwise you can use Windows inbuilt utility that is called as Scanpst.exe. Dealing with Scanpst.exe you can search for the corrupted files and scan the entire .pst file. This action repairs your Outlook and makes it as earlier. It has found that in most of the time Inbox repair tool fails to repair. In this condition third party repair tool works and restore all .pst file items using it powerful algorithms. This third party recovery tool fixes 0x80040116 error by scanning throughout the PST file.
