The mischievous activities such as database corruption or server crash can happen with the server so that the mailboxes are destroyed. Even though the OST files exist at client side, these files cannot be accessed without corresponding mailboxes at server. However the OST files fragile and can easily get damaged. So, to restore OST emails we require either manual or external solutions.
Is it Important to Restore OST emails?
Here comes the question whether to restore the emails from Corrupt OST. Yes, it is important to recover the OST files. OST holds mails, Calendars, tasks, journals, etc that can be the core important documents for the organization. Sometimes these may me our personal documents. Losing these documents may affect the day to activities of the firm. So, let’s see how we can restore these OST emails.How to Restore OST Emails?
Microsoft supports some inbuilt tool for repairing and recovering corrupt OST emails. OST integrity check is a free tool provided by Microsoft. Scanost.exe helps to fix various synchronization issues and other errors occurring in the OST files. Let’s see how scanost.exe works. Is it capable restoring OST emails? This method is briefed here.1. Exit the application Outlook running on your system.
2. Find the default utility scan.exe from your PC.
The default location of the scanost.exe is (for Windows 7)
C:\User\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\scanost.exe
3. Select profile, where the corrupted OST exists
4. Click connect
5. Then, click repair errors
6. Begin Scan on the OST files
This utility scans and fixes the errors automatically. This is a freeware which comes along with outlook. There are certain limitations to its capabilities. This tool is not capable of fixing major corruption issues in OST. The tool does not work if the Server is unavailable to the local computer. If you are looking for a smart solution to recover the corrupt or inaccessible OST emails take the helps of any external solutions.
Note: Scanost.exe is not available with Outlook 2010, 2013 and 2016 versions.
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