In the modern age, e-mails are the life-and-blood for any organization to communicate within or outside the business efficiently. MS Outlook in conjunction with Exchange Server, is one of the most preferred amalgamations for many organizations (both small and big) to smoothly carry out the email-based communication, even when there is poor or no internet connectivity available. Exchange Server, uses the help of OST file (Offline Storage table) to automatically synchronize and restore the updates, when the internet connectivity is regained and stable.
Being the local replicas of mailbox folders found on your system, OST files play an important file for Exchange Server to self-synchronize the offline updates. However, if anything happens to the OST file, then it starts creating trouble in updating the information created, deleted or modified during the offline period.
Outlook often throws a specified error message, with each OST file problem that the user faces. For example, this error message is encountered when OST files get corrupt.
“Encounter a large number of conflict items with OST fileâ€
CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM
This corruption error is popped-up when the OST file gets corrupt, which can be due to several unforeseen factors, such as power failure, data storage device failure, poor network connectivity, virus intrusion, abnormal termination of Outlook, and oversized OST files.
RESOLUTION
Microsoft provides two inbuilt utilities to fix up the troubling issues of Outlook manually. You can try these tools to fix up the error message: “Encounter a large number of conflict items with OST fileâ€.
METHOD I: OST INTEGRITY CHECKER
It is also known as scanost.exe utility, which can be located in this folder: C:\Program Files \Microsoft Office \OFFICE12. You can run this inbuilt tool to diagnose and repair corrupt OST files. This utility is helpful to scan and resolve the synchronization problems. Unfortunately, this tool is not supported in Outlook 2010 and above versions.
Steps to repair OST file using OST Integrity Checker:
- Open OST file in Microsoft Outlook program.
- Try to repair OST file using “scanpst.exe” (Inbox Repair tool) and then click scan.
Note: This inbuilt program is useful to fix errors of OST as well as PST files. It can even fix up the errors found in the file structure of corrupt OST file. - Once the repairing process is complete try to connect Outlook client to Exchange Server. Switch your MS Outlook to start from Offline mode to Online mode, as it will help you to connect Exchange and Outlook for comparison.
- Close MS Outlook program.
- Go to this path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE12\scanost.exe. Run scanost.exe utility.
- Choose the profile containing OST file in the OST Integrity Check tool.
- Select Connect in Connect or Work Offline option.
- Click Repair Errors option to automatically repair OST file error
- Select Begin Scan option to initiate scan and repairing process.
METHOD II: INBOX REPAIR TOOL
Inbox repair tool (scanpst.exe) tool is an executable software program that allows you to fix damaged OST/PST files. It is a life-saving tool to retrieve your lost data back to life and allows you save them in newly-created file structure. Although, it would fail to repair OST files, when is it corrupted too badly. Also, some IT experts claim that this free utility halts in middle of the repairing process before even reaching the final phase.
However, if Inbox Repair Tool method becomes unsuccessful to repair OST file, then definitely your offline files are severely corrupted. It is suggested to take the assistance a professional third-party software to resolve all types of corruption issues in OST files. The OST to PST tool is a safe-and-secured software solution to repair damaged OST files and then convert them to Outlook PST files in a single attempt. This software even facilitates you to export multiple OST files at once, to Exchange Server, Office 365 and other platforms without any difficulty.
Read more : http://www.osttopstconvert.recoveryfiles.org