In this blog post we will
know – Why OST file gets corrupted and solution to resolve corruption issues
with the help of manual workarounds and third-party utility. OST file or Offline
Storage Table is an offline folder file in the Microsoft Outlook email application.
Offline folders help the users to work in offline mode and then to sync changes
with the Exchange server when internet connection is re-established. The user
can smoothly perform all actions like as – accessing or deletion of existing
mail, draft saving, send/receive email items, and many more. When the Exchange
Server crashes down or damaged does not affect the Offline OST files. But, Sometimes
the OST file gets corrupted due to some reasons and in this situation the user
needs to repair the OST file as soon as possible.
Why OST file gets corrupted?
There are a number of factors behind the corruption issues in Outlook OST file. When this issue occurs in OST files, then it becomes completely unreadable or inaccessible.
Let’s know the all possible reasons of OST
corruption errors –
- Improper termination of Outlook application.
- When OST file exceed it size limits.
- Inappropriate Outlook plugins.
- Due Media Storage Failure.
- Bugs and Virus attacks.
- Abrupt or weak internet connectivity.
- Accidentally Power failure.
- Some other finding error code see that...
Manual workarounds to resolve corruption issues from
OST file
Generally, the Outlook Corruption is resolve by just restarting system/device. If the error is exist in your Outlook then try manual tools or third-party tool. Firstly, we will resolve with the help of manual workarounds –
Method 1 – By using Upload Folder
It is one of the easiest
manual tricks to repair corrupted OST file. Let’s follow the simply steps of
this method –
- First of all, right-click on the OST file folder and select the Properties.
- When the dialog box displays on your screen, then click on the Clear Offline Items option under this dialog box >> click on the Ok button.
- After that, On Outlook ribbon >> select the Send/Receive option.
- Finally, click on the Update Folder to save the changes.
Now you need to check
whether the OST file repaired or not. If not then move to third-party tool that
has multiple advanced features to quickly resolve corruption issues.
Method 2:
Third-party Utility for Repair & Recover Corrupted OST files
A third-part utility is simplest and reliable to repair corrupted OST file. That’s why, I Would like to suggest you to download ATS OST RecoveryTool. It has interactive and user-friendly interface, even non-technical user easily handle this tool.
The following key-features of this tool are mentioned
below –
- Quickly repair recovers data from all types of OST file such that – encrypted/ corrupted/ inaccessible/ password-protected.
- It restores all the mailbox items including delete once mailbox items.
- Provide Preview features to view recovered mailbox data from OST files.
- Converts single as well multiple OST file to PST file at a time.
- It save OST file into multiple file formats – Outlook PST, MSG, MBOX, NSF, vCard, vCal, HTML, EML, EMLX, PDF file types.
- It maintains the mailbox data integrity and folder hierarchy structure after the conversion OST to PST.
- Split oversized OST data files into several small PST file as per your requirements – by size, folder and date ranges.
- It allows us to directly import OST file into Office-365 and Live Exchange Server accounts.
- The Software Free Demo Version that enables the user to freely convert the first 30 email items per folder.
The Final-words
In this blog post, we have
discussed both third-party tool and manual tricks to resolve corruption error
from OST file. But I suggest you to go for third-party utility because it
provides surety of recovery of mailbox data from corrupted, encrypted OST file.
This OST Recovery Tool is completely risk-free software that gives you
money-back guarantees within 30 days of software purchase.