Outlook Personal Folder Error 'The password you have typed is incorrect'

A Microsoft Outlook Personal Folder (.pst file) can be protected from undesired intrusion using password protection. If you have password protected a .pst file and haven't selected the 'Save this password in your password list' check box, it prompts you to enter a password each time you try to open this file in Microsoft Outlook. However, if you type an incorrect password, PST will remain unopened and inaccessible. In such situations you need to use PST Password Recovery software to recall back the exact password of your PST.

The further discussion describes the solutions, which are available to recover the lost PST file password. But before mentioning them, let's consider a scenario wherein you protect your PST with a unique and complex password and cannot remember it. You just guess a password and use it to try opening the file, but this prompts you an error message, mentioned underneath:

“The password you have typed is incorrect. Retype the password”

Remember that PST file passwords are case-sensitive. Thus, while entering the password, ensure that the CAPS LOCK is turned off and you consider the uppercase and lowercase letters. Lost PST Password cannot be reset, just recovered or removed.

Solution

Microsoft doesn't provide any utility to restore lost PST file password. The two prime solutions available to deal with such problems are:

(1) pst19upg.exe, that removes PST file password : pst19upg.exe is originally a utility to upgrade an older version of .pst file so that it can be used with later versions of MS Outlook. But as one of the side effects of this process, the PST file password is stripped off. However, keep in mind that the tool may not always prove successful in removing the PST file password. If it cannot, try the next solution mentioned.

(2) Third-party PST Password Recovery Tool: These are tools designed exclusively to restore lost or forgotten PST file password, irrespective of its complexity and number of characters. You can find many such applications by searching through a search engine that ensure risk-free lost PST password recovery with the use of safe algorithms.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery is a high-end tool designed for recovering lost or forgotten PST file password for files created with MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. This PST Password Recovery softwaregenerates a series (precisely six) of PST-usable passwords, which can be further copied to any text-editor or word-processor file.