Fix ‘An unknown error has occurred 0x80040119’ Error of Outlook 2007!

PST file of MS Outlook application gets corrupt due to number of reasons and its most common symptoms is its inability to send and receive e-mail messages from MS Outlook application. Among the several reasons of PST corruption the most common reasons include unexpected system shutdown, complicated network sharing, virus or malware attack, software or hardware issue and so on. Due to this PST corruption people very often loose their valuable data and to get it back they either need to use available backup or inbuilt inbox repair tool utility.




Consider a scenario where you use MS Outlook 2007 on your Windows system. You installed some of its updates after which you observed that when you click an email message to read it, you fail to do so and received an error message which says –

"An unknown error has occurred: 0x80040119"




After the error message when you clicked the Send/Receive option of Outlook, it failed to respond with the same error message.




Cause




Error ‘0x80040119’ generally indicates that the PST file has gone corrupted which is might be due to the improper or incompatible updates.




Solution




The ultimate solution to resolve this PST corruption issue is by using Outlook’s inbuilt utility called Inbox Repair Tool or Scanpst.exe. This is a hidden file of MS Outlook application which gets installed automatically to the PC when MS Outlook is installed. To resolve this issue, just find the tool by clicking the ‘Show hidden files and folders’ option and then –



• Close MS Outlook 2007.
• Locate Inbox Repair Tool which is located typically at – "%Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12\"
• After that double click the tool to start it.
• Enter the name path and name of specified PST file.
• Click ‘Start’
• Exit the tool once the repairing and recovering of the PST data completes.



In case, the PST file size is more than 2GB or if it is highly damaged then Inbox Repair Tool might not be able to fix the issue or the error message, so in that case you need to take the help of any third party software like say Outlook PST Repair software which will effectively scan the PST file and recover all the valuable data stored in it. So, just use this effective tool and get rid of error 0x80040119 of Outlook forever.