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How can i get contacts out of an ost file?

Recovery Toolbox for Outlook (download) was made to recover data from files in *.ost format, that is used by Microsoft Outlook email client. Microsoft Outlook belongs to Microsoft Office package and represents one of the most known email programs in the world. Moreover, it is very important, that Microsoft Outlook is the only program that was developed as Microsoft Exchange Server client and without any limitations. You can also easily convert *.ost files to *.pst files, that can be opened offline by Microsoft Outlook.

As usual, Microsoft Exchange Server is used to work with corporate email and is located in local area network of your company. Sometimes, when this server is crashed or is subject to a sudden hacker or virus attack, it may be down and all of your contacts, mailboxes, tasks, calendars and all other items may be lost.

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Extract contacts from the Outlook ost files

Please note, that in this case, you have a copy of *.ost file on your PC, this file contains your contacts, emails, tasks and calendars. However, when Microsoft Exchange Server will be up and running, all accounts may be lost or corrupted. In this case your account will be recreated, and, as a consequence, all your data, that was stored on Microsoft Exchange Server, will be lost. How to recover contacts from ost file in this case and how to extract contacts from Outlook ost?

You may also ask, what about that *.ost file, can I use it and how to recover contacts from .ost Outlook 2003? The answer is no, this file is encrypted and, when your account is recreated, contacts from Outlook 2003 ost may be lost. It means that you will lost all data, that was stored in your Microsoft Exchange Server account and you cannot use it to recover contacts from ost file.

How can I get contacts out of an ost file and how to recover contacts from Outlook ost file? Now you have Recovery ToolBox for Outlook. This program can scan a copy of *.ost file, that is stored on your PC and extract all information from this file. There are two possibilities to recover Outlook ost file conversion to pst for contacts: first of all, you can extract a set of files in *.eml, *.vcf and *.txt extensions. In this case, you can recover contacts from .ost file or export contacts from ost file, any message can be exported separately and all files will be stored in one folder for your reference. This allows to use recovered content in most of email clients. Secondly, you can create a *.pst (Personal Storage) file, that can be opened with any Outlook-compatible email client. How can I get contacts out of an ost file and how to recover contacts ost?

Like all other tools from Recovery Toolbox set of products, Recovery ToolBox for Outlook is very easy to use either for computer professionals or for beginners. All you need is to show a path to your *.ost file and choose recovery method: whether you'd like it to be recovered in *.pst format or in a set of files. Free demo version of Recovery ToolBox for Outlook can be downloaded right now. It allows making sure, that all content can be recovered successfully. However, only 5 emails will be recovered in demo version. There are no any restrictions for extract contacts from Outlook ost among registered customers. So, please register, if you have already tried it and you like it. Saving contacts from ost file to pst file and export contacts from ost file is now easy.