Outlook File Access is Denied and Don′t have the Permission to Access

As we know Microsoft Outlook is one of the famous email client used all over the world. It’s simple interface, security and uninterrupted communication i.e sending and receiving emails qualities grows out its popularity among users. It stores information and manages data in a personal folder in the system called PST file. This file stores each item of Outlook like emails, contacts, tasks, notes etc. In spite of all these qualities, Outlook PST file is much prone to get corrupted and leads to occur different errors. One such error occurs due corrupted PST  is ″Outlook file access is denied″ in MS Outlook.
Messages are shown to inform PST access is denied:

• Cannot start Microsoft Outlook
• Accessing outlook archive files
• The set of folders cannot be opened.
• File access is denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file.

Reasons for this error messages are:

The Reason behind any PST file denied to accessed in Outlook are given below:

1. Outlook access is denied also when Windows get upgraded to a higher version.
2. This issue occurs when the PST file is in use and at the same time users switched by logging on to windows with a local account to Microsoft account.

As mentioned earlier, the error is also caused due to Outlook PST file corruption. In this situation, the file can be highly damaged and cannot be fixing using Microsoft’s inbuilt utilities. Hence a professional tool will be very helpful to troubleshoot the ″Outlook file access is denied″ error. To do so one can use a PST Recovery Tool for fixing the issue with great efficiency and security.

Solutions

There may be settings problem for granting permission. To achieve access to the outlook PST file, you can change the file permission using the following steps:

1. Right click on start button and select File Explorer from the given options.

2. In next step, go to the location of the file which was shown in access denied error i.e C:\Users\username\Documents\Outlook files\f_name.pst

3. Right-click on the selected PST file and go to Properties. In the Properties window, go to security tab and click on Edit button.

4. After that select your User Account and allow full control permission.

5. Save all the changes made and click OK until all windows dialog box gets closed.

Synopsis

Now you have a full permission to access the MS Outlook PST file. But remember the above-explained method works only if you have a healthy PST file. If you are still unable to access the file and Outlook file cannot be accessed showing the same access denied message that means the PST file is corrupted and needs to repair firstly. Microsoft has an inbuilt tool called Inbox Repair Tool or scanpst.exe which can be used to repair the file from minor corruption. But in case of major corruption, you will need a third-party tool as mentioned in the earlier section of the post.