(Offline Storage Table) is the name of OST file. Reason of behind the name this OST file allows to users work with the file while they in offline mode. OST files let the users to work on them without the presence of Microsoft Exchange server. And after connected system with the Exchange Server then these files synchronize the data. The ideal feature of these OST files is they provide the facility to work offline which is a big help in this situations where the network connectivity is poor or limited.
(Personal Storage Table) is the full name of PST file. PST is an open proprietary file format which is used to store copies of mails, messages, tasks, calendar events and many other valuable files. When Microsoft Outlook retrieve emails, messages it stores the files in PST and Outlook saves the PST files into the local hard drive of the computer systems. PST file’s size is depends upon the number of the mails it receives. The more the mails the better the file gets. Some version of MS Outlook can’t support it which more than 2GB. These some versions which do not support more then 2GB size of PST files are MS Outlook 97, 98, 2000 and Outlook. If Outlook version can not support the size of a PST file then the PST file will act as a corrupted one.
The whole thing work in this way first the Outlook create a replica OST file of the original OST file which is in the mailbox of the Exchange Server then the newly formed copy file is stored in a local folder usually termed as offline folder file. Any changes happen in the OST file is synchronized as soon as the system is connected with Exchange Server. In case of updating any contents of the folder the user has to synchronize the folder with Server then the user can work offline again. If the user delete any data also from the copy file or from the original one the data gets deleted from both of the file through synchronization. But there are a situation when OST files get corrupted then the solution is to convert the corrupted OST file to the PST file format through the OST to PST Conversion Software. There some problems while converting an OST data to MS Outlook straight. At this point the data is needed to be converted into PST files for a smooth access.
Plenty of issues can occur while using Outlook like exchange database can be corrupt due to virus assault, user e mail accounts can get deleted from the exchange server, server crash, operating method and EDB file malfunction and so on. So in these period, offline stored files won’t be converted to PST files. As an effect, the emails or contacts or notes become inaccessible and gets orphaned. In such situations require some third party application using which they can convert OST to PST files so the final resulted PST files can be direct accessed with MS Outlook. These corrupted OST files are not with the MS Exchange server and are not reusable. So there’s manual ways to convert OST file to PST files but they are time intense and risky to make use of also. But these third party applications can convert OST to PST file securely without changing the OST knowledge and they are very much time professional. These tools are usually easy to make use of and have a good user interface to handle the program.
