Thursday, May 3, 2012

A Real-time Scenario of Outlook Mail Data Loss and How to Easily Extract OST Objects to a PST File

I was using Outlook 2007 on my client computer. I had tons of contacts, emails, calendar entries in my Outlook data file. I was able to log on to the domain till last week. But there were problems with the login a few days back. So, I deleted my domain user account in the Active Directory and recreated a new account having the same name. I probably thought that the new account will automatically take the properties of the old one. It was now that I ran into a number of other profile issues and came to know that the Exchange was not running. When I started Outlook with the new account, it tried to create a new user profile and connect to the Exchange Server. But it did not succeed. It seemed that I had lost all my vital Outlook mail data.

I was not able to connect the old mailbox to the new account somehow. This issue possibly had one solution and that was converting the Outlook OST file to a PST file. Then, creating a new profile and getting all data in this profile. But this wasn't an easy job. I had to rigorously search for an efficient third-party OST to PST Converter software that would do the trick for me. I had already run the demo versions of various products, but none of them assured a complete conversion. I decided to contact a 'System Admin' for a quick fix to this. I narrated the whole problem to him. He doubted that my file was damaged as some of the tools had already failed to convert it. He suggested me to use an advance OST to PST Converter. He had a similar problem in the past with one of the employee's OST file and this utility was really helpful.

I took his advice and purchased this software after checking out its demo version. To my delight, the tool did it another time. It helped me quickly overcome this problem by safely extracting all objects in the file and restoring them to a new equivalent PST file. It allowed me to convert important messages, contacts, notes, journal, etc. without any slightest change in their original formatting and structure. I got all my emails back with their exact key properties, such as ''To', 'From', 'Subject', etc. Using this advanced OST Recovery tool, I also saved some of my emails as individual EML files in the system.