Looking at Ways to Quickly Restore Inaccessible OST Files

With Microsoft Outlook playing a very important role in storing almost all our personal and professional details, it goes without saying that losing any Outlook data is a serious concern indeed. When you use Outlook to access emails from an account stored on a Microsoft Exchange Server, it is quite likely that you are using Outlook in a Cached Exchange Mode that allows you to easily store all the data that you need offline, work on it in at your convenience and then next time, you establish the connection, synchronize the contents by updating the mailbox on the server. However, what would you do if your OST file were to suddenly start coming up with errors or worse still, prove inaccessible to you? The fear of losing valuable data looms large and you wonder if there is any way of carrying out a reliable and quick OST recovery.

 

Before we start looking at what tool would server our purpose best, we should look at the two most important qualities that we are looking for in our recovery tool. One, reliability and the second, speed. We would like the tool to be able to recover as much data as possible from the damaged OST file, including deleted items, all journal notes, appointments, emails and so on. We would also like the data to be restored in the same order as it was in the original file. Only then can we say that the repair tool is reliable enough. Secondly, the OST recovery has to happen fairly quickly. With important appointments, messages and tasks noted in Outlook, we need our data restored in the matter of minutes. A reliable tool that takes hours to recover data is of no use in a serious, crunch situation.

 

If you look at the many recovery tools that are flooding the market, you will realize that many will offer one or two powerful features but that not all offer a wide range of features. If you are looking at fixing just one OST file at a time and do not really deal with very important data, you might be happy with any tool that gives you quick results. However, if you are working with very important data in Outlook and reliability matters to you as much as speed, you are better off looking at more superior tools such as Advanced Exchange Recovery from DataNumen.

 

This tool for example, can work on entire batches of OST files and still fix them in a matter of minutes. Since the software supports integration with Explorer, you do not have to worry about a new interface but immediately get started with identifying the damaged OST file and carrying out the OST recovery. Advanced Exchange Recovery can recover entire mail messages including their properties, attachments and embedded objects, if any.  Not only can this software handle fairly huge files, it can split the resulting data into smaller PST files, making it much easier for the user to view and work with the data. For a reliable and hassle-free way of recovering data from an inaccessible or orphaned OST file, you should therefore consider more advanced exchange recovery applications.