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Extract mails from OST file (Offline)

Hello,

I have a user complaining that he misses mails from 2015.
After searching on the server, in online archive, in his mailbox (OWA + Outlook) I'm confident that there is gap of two months in his mailbox where mails are missing.

I found an old OST file on his computer that's last modified in that month where he's missing mails.
So I guess this user had some Outlook/mailbox problems in that period.
Now obviously I can't just select that OST in Outlook as it will just update it with the current state.

Is there a way to either convert this OST to a PST file or to extract all mails from the OST?
I hope those missing mails will be in the OST file.

Thank you
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I hope the above suggestions clarifies your concern. Moreover, You can always recover the data from the exchange server itself ost is a online copy of the mails and one copy resides on the server all the time.

How ever if you wants to recover from ost, there are third party solutions that can convert the ost to a pst file and you can recover all the data.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/29049/Top-5-Free-OST-to-PST-Converter-Software.html

Hope this helps!
Hello,

According to your query, the perfect solution will be SysTools OST to PST Converter software which will export offline data file OST into PST format without the loss of data. You can also extract the complete OST file data like emails, contacts from a specific duration. And you can also recover all the lost emails from 2015 to the required time with the help of the Email filter option provided in the utility for OST to PST conversion.

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Clark Kent
You need to convert OST to PST
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Hi,
If you are need of extracting all mails from your OST file then you can try OST to PST Converter for effective results in no time.
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Well this is how I did it.
Created an Outlook profile for that user account.
Closed Outlook and went offline.
Replaced the OST and Outlook just loaded the older OST without updating it.

I then just exported all mails to PST in order to have the mails offline.
User was happy.

Thx
I googled ".ost file to .pst" and got this link amongst many others tools

1- http://www.recoverymails.com/convert-ost-to-pst.html (free version)

2- http://www.howtosol.com/procuts/osttopst/ (free version: )

You can google also. It's simple.