Effective Ways of Recovering Offline OST Files
Most Outlook users dread the thought of losing all their important Outlook data and along with backing up their data regularly, probably also familiarize themselves with the repair tool that the application has to offer. If after repeated use, your OST file becomes damaged, you can certainly try using the OST Integrity Check Tool to not only scan the file for any errors, but also to fix them. For the tool to work correctly, you have to ensure that you are not working in an offline mode. It is best that you first check whether a connection is available to the exchange server, establish the connection and then try running the tool. It is not uncommon for OST files to become so damaged that the Integrity Check Tool is unable to rectify the errors found in the file. You may then have to use recovery tools to carry out an OST recovery.
Let us first look at how the Integrity tool can help us in recovering offline OST files. The Microsoft Outlook Offline Storage File is where all your important Outlook information is stored ' this includes all your emails, appointments, contact addresses, tasks, journals, notes and many other items that are crucial in both your personal and professional life. An OST file may become corrupted due to sudden system shutdowns, database corruption, power outages and so on. While more rare, there are problems such as accidental deletion of emails and other items, large size of the OST file, problems in converting Offline Storage Files (OST) to Personal Storage Files (PST), etc. All these problems could cause damage to the actual OST file and give rise to errors when you are trying to work with Outlook and the OST file. The best option is to run the Integrity Check Tool ' if you select the 'Repair Errors' option, this tool will also carry out an OST recovery automatically once it finishes scanning the file and locates the errors.
However, if there is serious damage or corruption in the OST file, it is quite likely that this tool will not be sufficient to fix the file and to restore the data. You are better off using more powerful software such as Advanced Exchange Recovery from DataNumen to repair the file. Designed to use sophisticated scan and recover technologies, this software can quickly and easily help you recover all your important data from the damaged OST file. For example, these recovery tools can scan not just damaged OST files but orphaned ones as well. Once the scanning is done, they work quickly to extract every possible bit of data from the file so as to minimize the amount of data lost. Further, most of these tools will ensure that the original data is not affected in any way and that the data is restored in the same hierarchy as existed in the original folder.