Re: Recovering data from an OST file
From: HappilyClueless (noone_at_home.com)
Date: 01/21/05
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:19:44 GMT
If you're using Outlook 97/98/200/2002(XP) this utility (ost2pst.exe) will,
oddly enough, convert your OST file to a PST file which can then be imported
into your current profile.
http://www.xcopy32.com/download.php?file=24
If you're using Outlook 2003, the options become expensive.
$600 program (the demo only recovers three messages)
http://www.officerecovery.com/exchange/index.htm
$20 service. Send them your OST, they send you back a PST.
http://www.payam.com.au/exchangeconverstion-convertosttopsthtml.htm
Additional:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q163589/
"Joseph Mouhanna" <josephmo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:t2bId.5771$J6.5136@trnddc02...
> Here's the scenario:
>
> While doing a test setup of SBS, I set up the server with an FQDN, let's
> say: mine.acme.local and the DNS name is acme.com. I set up a couple of
> accounts (account A and account B) and was sending/receiving email fine. I
> was accessing these accounts from workstations A and B, using a profile,
> let's call ProfileAMine on Workstation A.
>
> When I moved to the final setup (I erased the original installation and
> everything on it), I changed the FQDN to minenew.acme.local, the DNS name
> remains the same: acme.com.
>
> Account A was set up to receive, in addition to Exchange emails, email
> from other POP3 accounts (and of course it was removing them from the POP3
> servers as it was retrieving). The account was set up to deliver the
> emails to the Inbox. I opened the Outlook client for Account A from
> workstation A, and of course it told me that it could not send/receive
> from the Exchange account (it was still using the original ProfileAMine).
> At this point, I can see all the emails that were downloaded from the POP3
> servers in the Inbox. I then went to Tools --> Email Accounts --> View or
> Change existing email accounts, and deleted the Exchange account so I can
> add the new Exchange account information. Of course it asked me if I was
> sure I wanted to do that, and of course I said Yes I'm sure. You can
> predict what happened next: my Inbox was gone.
>
> I have the .OST file. Is there anything I can do to retrieve the POP3
> emails that are now part of the .OST file?
>
> --thx, Joseph
>
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