Find Out the Secure Ways to Change OST to PST Emails

Even though, OST and PST files belong from the same family of MS Outlook, their properties and functioning differ to a great extent. OST files acts as a replica to store the data, present to the Exchange server, locally on the user machine. PST files on the other hand, store the data that a user works upon in Outlook.

The OST files created in a particular machine cannot be accessed on a different machine or Exchange server. This is due to the fact that OST files are created for a particular profile can only be opened in that very profile. In case the profile is not present or the OST file is opened in a new Outlook account it will not be accessible.

Why To Change OST Emails To PST?

The basic requirement of changing OST file to PST format arises when the user working in a particular organization needs to take his entire OST file data with him. Since the OST file cannot be accessed in an Exchange server environment apart from the one in which it was created, taking the OST file is not of any use. Therefore, the ultimate solution is to copy the content of the OST file and then accessing it in Outlook on a different machine or in a different Exchange environment.

What’s more, OST and PST file data cannot be accessed in any other application except Outlook. Therefore, the only method to access OST file data in any other machine is to convert the OST file data into PST.

Manually Convert OST File Data Into PST File

The mails residing in the OST file can be manually converted to PST file data by following procedure:

1)   Import Export Wizard

You can export the entire emails residing in your OST files by exporting them to a PST file. The output PST file will contain all the mails of the PST file and can be easily copied and accessed in a different profile of Outlook.

2)   Manually Copy Mails

The other option is to copy the mails of the OST file and copy them one by one in a PST file. Although it’s a very time taking process and can also result in missing out some emails from getting copied to the PST file.

 All the above methods do not convert corrupted OST file data. If the OST file is corrupted and the mails residing in your OST file are inaccessible, it cannot be converted to PST file manually. In order to find out the secure ways to change OST to PST emails and also to convert a corrupted OST file into PST read the next section.

Third Party Solution

An alternative solution that can flawlessly convert the mails from even a corrupted OST file to PST file is OST Recovery. The solution is designed to convert emails and the other data items residing in the OST file to Outlook PST file. The software maintains the data integrity of the OST file and no compromise whatsoever is made with the mails in OST file.

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