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Written By Edwin Stark
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Updated on October 4th, 2022
With this article, I will try to tell you various techniques, on how to retrieve emails from OST files. OST files are very crucial for Outlook users and corruption can hamper the smooth functioning of your MS Outlook. So these fine-tuned techniques would surely help you out in restoring or getting back your OST file data.
In general, Outlook saves its data in two file formats PST and OST respectively. PST is a personal storage file whereas OST is an offline storage file. OST file is used to keep the copy of your mailbox items like messages, contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, journals, and so on. These mailbox items can be accessed without a network connection.
Unfortunately, there are situations when your OST files might get damaged or you unintentionally delete the file and all the data becomes inaccessible.
When you delete an email, then it gets stored in the ‘Deleted Items’ or ‘Trash’ folder. You can easily retrieve your OST data from there. Unfortunately, there are cases when the items present in the ‘Deleted Items’ gets deleted or you might have emptied the folder.
So now the question is how to retrieve OST file and its data?
To do so, I have mentioned below certain techniques which will help you in getting back the original data from Exchange OST files.
You can use the below method to get back your OST data when you are working on the same Microsoft Exchange profile.
This method is suggested only when your Microsoft Exchange profile is either deleted, changed or altered. For this situation, you have to create the synchronization between the offline folder file and Exchange Server.
Follow the below steps to do so:
Limitation
Here, I would like to mention that these two methods will not work in the following situations:
However, there is still is an alternate solution that can help you in recovering or restore your offline OST file data. And that is, by using a professional OST File Recovery tool.
One of the most renowned tools in this segment is SysInfo OST Recovery Tool.
This tool has many inbuilt features like it can repair and recover data from highly corrupted OST files plus it can easily get back your emails which has been deleted from OST files. You can even save the recovered data in various other file formats like PST, MBOX, MSG, and so on. Moreover, the software is quick and effective in resolving any type of OST error.
Through this article, I have tried to give you an easy solution to retrieve emails from OST files. You can try the manual method which is free, but in case you want to Extract Contacts From OST File go for the suggested tool. Follow the given instructions. Hope you like it!
About The Author:
Edwin Stark is a Technical Content Writer who specializes in writing about databases, e-mail recovery, and e-mail migration solutions. He loves researching and developing content that helps database administrators, organizations and novices to fix multiple problems.
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