You may have been working with Outlook along with Microsoft Exchange Server for some time now when you find that Outlook is not responding quickly enough to ordinary commands, it is taking time to move items around or that there are error messages every now and then. You may rightly suspect that the Offline Storage Folder (OST files) used to store all your Exchange data has been corrupted. There can of course be many reasons for this ' the Exchange server used to store your server-based mailbox may have crashed suddenly, there could have been a corruption of the database used to store all the data or the mailbox may have been accidentally deleted. Any of these could cause serious damage to the OST files or result in OST files becoming orphaned and the only way to recover the data may be to convert OST to PST files.

 

If the server-based mailbox has been accidentally deleted, then you may believe that you are still safe as the data is still stored in your Offline Storage Folders (OST files).  However, in some versions of Outlook, as soon as the application finds that the server-based mailbox has been changed in some way, it automatically points the Exchange Server profile to a new mailbox. Since this is the default option, many users proceed with this option only to find that their current OST file is completely inaccessible. If you manage to access your OST file before the profile is modified, you should still be able to convert the OST to PST and recover all your data. Else, you may just be left with an orphaned OST file.

 

One of the most powerful and popular tools used to convert orphaned OST files to PST files is the Advanced Exchange Recovery from DataNumen. The advantage of converting the Exchange data from OST files to Personal Storage Folders (PST files) is that Outlook is able to access the data directly. One of the biggest advantages of this software is that it has a highly intuitive user interface. This makes it easy for even a beginner to identify which OST files they are having problems with and then start the recovery process.

 

Though it is easy to use, Advanced Exchange Recovery has a wide range of powerful features. Not only does it allow you to quickly convert data stored as OST to PST data, it restores all the properties of the items restored. For example, email messages will have all their properties restored including from, to, bcc, cc, date and time fields. Almost all attachments are safely recovered. Contacts, appointments, address books, scheduled meetings and many more items are restored without any problems. More importantly the data that is recovered is restored in the same structure as in the original file.

 

One of the most attractive features of Advanced Exchange Recovery is that it can easily restore OST files that are as large as a few terabytes. Once the data is restored, it is saved in PST files that can be easily accessed by Outlook. You can thus very reliably convert OST to PST using Advanced Exchange Recovery and save all your vital data.