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Outlook 2003 should easily import an OST file
My father accidentally closed the OST file that contained important data and
has been unable to re-connect to the file using OL 2003. I searched the web and found TONS of forum posts regarding this problem. People are spending up to $600 on 3rd party programs to convert the OST file to PST just so they can recover their data. I am amazed at what a widespread problem this has become. Outlook should not allow a user to so easily lose valuable data. An option to import OST files should be added to OL, or a utility should be bundled with office. Some forums suggest that XP system restore can reconnect the OST file. Others have resorted to expensive software, or illegal downloading from Chinese websites of such software. Software companies are basing their whole business on the process of recovering OL data, and this should not be happening. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...installat ion |
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Outlook 2003 should easily import an OST file
OST files are used with Exchange typically in a work environment. Data,
essentially, cannot be "lost" since it resides on the server. A new profile connecting to the server should allow access to the data. Cases we see where data is "lost" include those where an employee no longer has access to the server. Such issues are between the employer or Exchange provider and the employee / user. Legal questions regarding ownership can come into play. Users often have the ability to backup OST files to local PST files. I don't think you will ever see native support for OST to PST conversion or import ability partly because of the possible legal issues involved. "phaserbanks" wrote in message news My father accidentally closed the OST file that contained important data and has been unable to re-connect to the file using OL 2003. I searched the web and found TONS of forum posts regarding this problem. People are spending up to $600 on 3rd party programs to convert the OST file to PST just so they can recover their data. I am amazed at what a widespread problem this has become. Outlook should not allow a user to so easily lose valuable data. An option to import OST files should be added to OL, or a utility should be bundled with office. Some forums suggest that XP system restore can reconnect the OST file. Others have resorted to expensive software, or illegal downloading from Chinese websites of such software. Software companies are basing their whole business on the process of recovering OL data, and this should not be happening. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...installat ion |
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Outlook 2003 should easily import an OST file
phaserbanks wrote:
My father accidentally closed the OST file that contained important data and has been unable to re-connect to the file using OL 2003. OSTs are just reflections of what are contained on the Exchange server (since the last sync, of course) and can't be "closed" as you call it. You can certainly delete the account that was using the OST, but recreating that account should use the same OST as long as it's within the same profile. -- Brian Tillman |
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Outlook 2003 should easily import an OST file
Thanks for the reply.
In this case, my father was part owner of a company that went out of business. The server hosting exchange services was wiped and liquidated. I understand based on your post why MS protects OST files. I guess my point is that OL makes it too easy for users to accidentally lost access to data that may otherwise be unrecoverable. "BillR - MVP" wrote: OST files are used with Exchange typically in a work environment. Data, essentially, cannot be "lost" since it resides on the server. A new profile connecting to the server should allow access to the data. Cases we see where data is "lost" include those where an employee no longer has access to the server. Such issues are between the employer or Exchange provider and the employee / user. Legal questions regarding ownership can come into play. Users often have the ability to backup OST files to local PST files. I don't think you will ever see native support for OST to PST conversion or import ability partly because of the possible legal issues involved. "phaserbanks" wrote in message news My father accidentally closed the OST file that contained important data and has been unable to re-connect to the file using OL 2003. I searched the web and found TONS of forum posts regarding this problem. People are spending up to $600 on 3rd party programs to convert the OST file to PST just so they can recover their data. I am amazed at what a widespread problem this has become. Outlook should not allow a user to so easily lose valuable data. An option to import OST files should be added to OL, or a utility should be bundled with office. Some forums suggest that XP system restore can reconnect the OST file. Others have resorted to expensive software, or illegal downloading from Chinese websites of such software. Software companies are basing their whole business on the process of recovering OL data, and this should not be happening. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...installat ion |
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Outlook 2003 should easily import an OST file
The old "Always in the office and hardwired paradigm".
Here is how I find my self in need of a .ost import. I am currently working in Haiti and will not be returning to Office for another 2 months. My 4 year old laptop died (burnt out video card) and my office sent me a new one. It took me a few hours with an external usb drive cage containing my old hard drive to get back all my other documents utilities etc... If I was back at the home office it would be a trivial task ( 1 hour ) to enter my account information and download all 1.3 GB of email. However on the availeble internet link going throgh VPN, It should take around 3 months to download my email. That is why I need a way to import .ost files. Now tell me about those legal isues and how using a 3rd party tool is diferent from using a built in utility to import email. "Brian Tillman" wrote: phaserbanks wrote: My father accidentally closed the OST file that contained important data and has been unable to re-connect to the file using OL 2003. OSTs are just reflections of what are contained on the Exchange server (since the last sync, of course) and can't be "closed" as you call it. You can certainly delete the account that was using the OST, but recreating that account should use the same OST as long as it's within the same profile. -- Brian Tillman |
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Outlook 2003 should easily import an OST file
No legal issues and no built-in utility, but certainly possible...for a
price. http://www.payam.com.au/exchangeconv...ttopsthtml.htm OST to PST File Conversion Service http://officerecovery.com/exchange/ ExchangeRecovery (OST2PST) Hal -- Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP- Print /Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com "kevinsproul" wrote in message ... The old "Always in the office and hardwired paradigm". Here is how I find my self in need of a .ost import. I am currently working in Haiti and will not be returning to Office for another 2 months. My 4 year old laptop died (burnt out video card) and my office sent me a new one. It took me a few hours with an external usb drive cage containing my old hard drive to get back all my other documents utilities etc... If I was back at the home office it would be a trivial task ( 1 hour ) to enter my account information and download all 1.3 GB of email. However on the availeble internet link going throgh VPN, It should take around 3 months to download my email. That is why I need a way to import .ost files. Now tell me about those legal isues and how using a 3rd party tool is diferent from using a built in utility to import email. "Brian Tillman" wrote: phaserbanks wrote: My father accidentally closed the OST file that contained important data and has been unable to re-connect to the file using OL 2003. OSTs are just reflections of what are contained on the Exchange server (since the last sync, of course) and can't be "closed" as you call it. You can certainly delete the account that was using the OST, but recreating that account should use the same OST as long as it's within the same profile. -- Brian Tillman |
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Outlook 2003 should easily import an OST file
I lost my 6 years e-mails and other stuff, Microsoft products are not
reliable, particularly outlook is the worst. I switched over to IBM Lotus Notes, it is very cool e-mail client. Rahil "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" wrote: No legal issues and no built-in utility, but certainly possible...for a price. http://www.payam.com.au/exchangeconv...ttopsthtml.htm OST to PST File Conversion Service http://officerecovery.com/exchange/ ExchangeRecovery (OST2PST) Hal -- Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP- Print /Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com "kevinsproul" wrote in message ... The old "Always in the office and hardwired paradigm". Here is how I find my self in need of a .ost import. I am currently working in Haiti and will not be returning to Office for another 2 months. My 4 year old laptop died (burnt out video card) and my office sent me a new one. It took me a few hours with an external usb drive cage containing my old hard drive to get back all my other documents utilities etc... If I was back at the home office it would be a trivial task ( 1 hour ) to enter my account information and download all 1.3 GB of email. However on the availeble internet link going throgh VPN, It should take around 3 months to download my email. That is why I need a way to import .ost files. Now tell me about those legal isues and how using a 3rd party tool is diferent from using a built in utility to import email. "Brian Tillman" wrote: phaserbanks wrote: My father accidentally closed the OST file that contained important data and has been unable to re-connect to the file using OL 2003. OSTs are just reflections of what are contained on the Exchange server (since the last sync, of course) and can't be "closed" as you call it. You can certainly delete the account that was using the OST, but recreating that account should use the same OST as long as it's within the same profile. -- Brian Tillman |
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Outlook 2003 should easily import an OST file
How in the heck were you able to manage to add to a 3 yr old thread. Just
curious,that's all -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Rahil" wrote in message ... I lost my 6 years e-mails and other stuff, Microsoft products are not reliable, particularly outlook is the worst. I switched over to IBM Lotus Notes, it is very cool e-mail client. Rahil "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" wrote: No legal issues and no built-in utility, but certainly possible...for a price. http://www.payam.com.au/exchangeconv...ttopsthtml.htm OST to PST File Conversion Service http://officerecovery.com/exchange/ ExchangeRecovery (OST2PST) Hal -- Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP- Print /Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com "kevinsproul" wrote in message ... The old "Always in the office and hardwired paradigm". Here is how I find my self in need of a .ost import. I am currently working in Haiti and will not be returning to Office for another 2 months. My 4 year old laptop died (burnt out video card) and my office sent me a new one. It took me a few hours with an external usb drive cage containing my old hard drive to get back all my other documents utilities etc... If I was back at the home office it would be a trivial task ( 1 hour ) to enter my account information and download all 1.3 GB of email. However on the availeble internet link going throgh VPN, It should take around 3 months to download my email. That is why I need a way to import .ost files. Now tell me about those legal isues and how using a 3rd party tool is diferent from using a built in utility to import email. "Brian Tillman" wrote: phaserbanks wrote: My father accidentally closed the OST file that contained important data and has been unable to re-connect to the file using OL 2003. OSTs are just reflections of what are contained on the Exchange server (since the last sync, of course) and can't be "closed" as you call it. You can certainly delete the account that was using the OST, but recreating that account should use the same OST as long as it's within the same profile. -- Brian Tillman |
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Outlook 2003 should easily import an OST file
"Rahil" wrote in message
... I lost my 6 years e-mails and other stuff, Microsoft products are not reliable, particularly outlook is the worst. I switched over to IBM Lotus Notes, it is very cool e-mail client. Poor practices can cause you to lose your data no matter what client you use. Outlook is certainly as reliable as any other large application. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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