RE: OST files

MessageHi All

Sorry all but I have bad news. An OST file can only be opened by the profile 
that originally created it. Thus if you have deleted the profile the file is 
useless.

Regards,

Paul Lemonidis.

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  From: Chris Wall 
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  Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:09 PM
  Subject: [exchangelist] RE: OST files


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  The OST will only open with the original mailbox that it was setup with.  If 
you have access to that other domain you will have to give him access to his 
mail on that other domain - setup Offline files and point it to the OST file 
that you have (it must be his original mailbox) - follow the directions at the 
link below.  Other than that, I do not know if there is a way around these 
steps.

  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;195793

  Chris
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    From: Eric Lanyon [mailto:ELanyon@xxxxxxx] 
    Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:37 PM
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    Subject: [exchangelist] RE: OST files


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    The profile that was deleted with just the Outlook profile.  I have a copy 
of the OST and associated files.  I'm just not sure how I can open the them and 
so the data can be exported. 


    -----Original Message-----
    From: Chris Wall [mailto:Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
    Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:37 PM
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    Subject: [exchangelist] RE: OST files


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      I assume that you deleted the user profile off of his machine (or are you 
speaking of the outlook profile).  Could the OST files have been placed in a 
seperate location than under his profile.  As a rule, I always put Outlook 
files in a folder on the root in the event a profile is corrupted I still have 
access to the PST, OST and any other files used in Outlook.  Do a search for 
the OST files and see what happens.  If you have no luck, I would recommend 
trying a recovery utility through dos to recover the files. 

      If you only recreated his Outlook profile, you should be able to find the 
OST file under his User profile in NT/XP/2000 where it is created as a default. 

      Chris
        -----Original Message-----
        From: Eric Lanyon [mailto:ELanyon@xxxxxxx] 
        Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:01 PM
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        OST..offline storage files it's the files which are used when a laptop 
is offline to a user can read/send email while on the travel.  Then when back 
in the office they sync up with the server.
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          From: Chris Nielsen [mailto:cnielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
          Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:02 PM
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          Never heard of OST files. Native Outlook file format is PST files, is 
this what you meant? These are not saved in any special way, they're just files 
on the disk. If you did indeed delete his old profile I would suggest you lock 
down that hard drive ASAP. Get it out of that machine and put in another and 
run some file recovery utilities on it. Don't let the space get overwritten by 
new files or the old files are gone for good.



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          Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:56 AM
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          I have a user that was part of another domain and recently came into 
ours.  On the old domain, he used OST files.  When he came in, I added him to 
the domain and created a new email profile to the server.  Not knowing he had 
the OST files, I deleted the old profile.  Then come to find out he needs the 
info that was stored in the OST files.  He is running Outlook 2000.  Any 
suggestions on how to extract the data?  

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