Emails are becoming most important communication channels for both business and personal use. Microsoft Outlook is generally utilized for receiving, sending and storing emails. If you want to send and receive emails through Outlook you should have an email account. In addition to emails, Outlook also stores tasks, events, notes, journals and calendar items. Each of these attributes are kept in a database file called OST (Offline Storage Table) in your system. The maximum size of OST file is dependent upon versions of Outlook. However, in some unforeseen situations Outlook OST files turn into orphaned and gets unusable, few common reasons are as follows
In case, if you unluckily change the domain setting in Outlook or MAPI, then the equivalent OST file turns into orphaned
Hard disk failure at exchange server side might damage its database and makes respective OST file stored into it as orphaned
If a caching controller is utilized with exchange server, its failure or malfunction will cause all the cached data loss and the database damage, therefore it makes the OST file orphaned
If system gets abruptly turn off due to unexpected power surge when the exchange server is accessing the database, this sort of incidence damages the database and leads to OST file orphaned
Solutions to Read an Orphaned OST file:
One can even make the orphaned OST file into usable form by re-establishing the synchronization between your Outlook OST file and Microsoft exchange server, by following these steps
Initially, connect the Outlook with original MAPI. MAPI is a client protocol that allows users access their mailbox by using Outlook.
Go to Exchange admin center (EAC), select the email address you want to use to connect to MAPI to exchange server and then click on Mailbox Features.
Then enable POP3 if it disabled or disable it, if it is enabled, do the same with IMAP and MAPI as well. As shown in the figure below.
Next, connect the MAPI address to original MS exchange server.
You can make use of this manual method to connect to the exchange server and sync your OST file with exchange server and make orphaned OST readable again. If you are not possessing original MAPI address, you will fail to find original MAPI address. In such scenario use the reliable OST to PST Converter.
As you can fruitfully convert orphaned OST file to healthy PST file to save your precious Outlook folder and files by using Remo OST to PST converter software.
Spectacular Features of Remo Convert OST to PST tool:
It is user friendly and simple to install, within few clicks you can convert any OST to PST.
While scanning the software only reads source (original) OST file and converts it into a fresh PST file, this makes sure that your original OST file will not be modified or corrupted.
Professional support team is available around the clock for assistance to resolve your queries.
Why use Remo Convert OST to PST tool:
Remo OST to PST converter is an appropriate tool for converting the orphaned OST file into Outlook importable PST file format.
Before conversion, the tool facilitates the user to mend the OST files, if they are damaged or have become unreadable due to any problem like unintended deletion of user account, Microsoft Exchange server downtime, server crash, and so on.
By making use of this outstanding software, you can retrieve and convert the corrupted OST mailbox items like attachments, posts, contacts, distribution lists, appointments, etc. into PST mailbox. The software even has the capability to convert the password-protected OST files into Outlook PST file format and also supports compressible high encryption form.
How To Convert Orphaned OST To PST?
To convert orphaned OST to PST, you have to follow few simple steps shown below:
Download and install the software on your Windows computer.
Set up the tool and follow the instructions presented on the main screen.
On the main screen software displays two options, one is “Open OST File” and the other is “Find OST File”
If you know the exact location of OST files the select “Open OST File”
Otherwise, select “Find OST File” and click on the Find tab.
Next, click on the Convert button to start the conversion process.
After completion of the process, the tool provides a statement that is, OST file conversion process is completed.
Watch a Video Tutorial to easily Convert Orphaned OST to PST.
Note: Remo Repair Outlook PST application is efficient in fixing corrupted PST files successfully. Hence, it is referred to as an Outlook file fixer.
