Anyone who uses outlook will have to make email management like backing the PST file or cleaning old data by archiving or deleting. But when it comes to OST all IMAP mailbox data are stored in single file which leads to complication.
Quick Solution
EdbMails for OST to PST Converter is a free tool to convert orphaned OST Files to PST. Also, you can perform OST file migration to Live Exchange or to Office 365.
Outlook functionality and performance depends on these files health. So making sure the files are backed up and kept with good state using maintenance when necessary is important.
When Outlook 2013 was introduced and later outlook 2016, both has a new method of data storage where a single OST file is created that contains all the data of an Outlook profile created. This means the OST file contains both email data and calendar contact data.
This may seem like good on paper, but the problem is only emails are backed up on server while the contact and calendar data are stored locally with a tag that you may have noticed called “This computer only” inside outlook data.
When the OST file gets corrupted, orphaned accidentally or deleted by mistake you can’t recover from it even with a backup that cannot be opened directly. Also, you cannot move the OST to different system as well. To avoid this you can have all data saved in PST file and use it to access data. So, converting OST to PST file is required when you face this issue.
Using inbuilt option to create new PST file in outlook from,
- Select “Home” -> “New Items” -> “More Items” -> “Outlook Data File”.
- Then Select “File” -> “Info” -> “Account Settings”
Here, select the new PST file created and set it as default PST for current profile. Now all data will be saved to this PST file. You can set sync option across multiple device as well. You will have to backup contact calendar data to PST or CSV regularly to keep backups. This even though is free, it’s still local data and to avoid the risks of losing data to accidental deletion or other harm from attacks etc, its best to convert the IMAP OST data from the actual file to PST using EdbMails that provides easy process to convert OST to PST file.
Quick Solution
EdbMails for OST to PST Converter is a free tool to convert orphaned OST Files to PST. Also, you can perform OST file migration to Live Exchange or to Office 365.
Convert OST to PST using EdbMails in few easy steps
- Start EdbMails application and login with your account.
- Select the OST to PST converter and click ‘Continue’.
- Select the OST file that you wish to recover and click ‘Continue’
- Select the Mailboxes / folders from the main gui screen that appears
- Click the ‘Export Selected Mailbox / Folders…’ button to perform OST to PST conversion.