An .ost file is for Exchange offline folders, not for any data used by a
non-Exchange server user.
Interesting...
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, 5talents asked:
| Milly,
| I tried that. Outlook said "not a .pst file". After searching online,
| I found one instance of someone else having a similar problem (in
| early 2008). They renamed the file to .ost and then paid $200 to
| convert it to a .pst file. I tried a demo version of some software to
| do this - the e-mail comes through but the contacts don't.
|
| We are running the latest version of "Outlook Connector". Is there
| anyone on that team that can tell me what is in the .nst file?
| Apparently, it is undocumented.
|
| Regards,
| 5talents
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Make a copy of the file before you try this.
||
|| Rename the file to outlook.pst and then try to open it in Outlook
|| using File->Open->Outlook Data File.
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| ALWAYS post your Outlook version!
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||
||
|| "5talents" <***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
|| news:90E64966-66D0-4E2C-BB1C-***@microsoft.com...
|| Today my wife's hotmail account got hacked. All that's left on her
|| computer is a large outlook.nst file (1 GB) and some small .pst
|| files (28MB). She can no longer access her hotmail account. It seems
|| to me that her old e-mails and
|| contacts are in the outlook.nst file, but we cannot open it. Can
|| anyone tell me what is stored in the .nst file and how we can read
|| it?