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Microsoft Outlook 2007 is the personal information manager launched by Microsoft that is used as an email client across the world due to wide range of features available on it. Outlook 2007 is released to overcome problems that are faced in the usage of Outlook 2003. An OST file is an Offline Storage Table file that contains a copy of your mailbox and other attributes like contacts, calendar items, tasks, appointments etc that are stored on the Exchange Server when you work offline.  This leaves the emails on the hard drive of your local computer so that they can be read offline.

An OST file makes it possible for you to work offline and then to synchronize changes with the Exchange Server next time when you connect to the internet. The ability to work offline is useful in environments with limited or unreliable connectivity. However, due to various problems you might come across a situation where your OST file is corrupt and you are unable to open damaged OST file. During this time, different error messages are popped up and you need to fix the corrupted OST file prior to using it on Outlook. There are variety of recovery softwares available on the internet to repair the damaged OST files; you can use our expert email repair software to repair MS Outlook OST files that are damaged severely. When the OST files on Outlook 2007 are corrupted due to certain reasons, you can use this utility to perform Outlook repair OST 2007. In addition you can also fix 2003 Outlook OST files by using our email recovery software. The different reasons that could lead to the corruption or damage of OST file are:

• Upgradation of Windows: While upgrading your Windows operating system to add newly available features on to the present OS, your OST files might get corrupted due to compatibility issues
• Migration of Outlook Version: When you migrate Outlook profile from older version to a newer version, there are high chances of your OST file getting damaged
• Oversized OST File: When your OST file exceeds in size, your OST file can be damaged or broken. For e.g. Outlook 2000 PST files getting corrupt when it reaches 2 GB or more in size
• Compaction Operation: OST files are compacted to reduce the storage space. Sometimes errors that occur during the compacting operation might breakdown OST file giving a corrupted OST file
• Network Problems: During the synchronization of your OST files with the Exchange Server, your OST file might corrupt due to network failure or server breakdown. Most of the times virus attack on the network or on your PC causes corruption of the OST file

To Outlook repair OST 2007 that are corrupted due to the above mentioned reasons, you can use our email repair utility to repair damaged OST file. This tool has a powerful algorithm designed to fix Outlook OST and PST files that corrupted or broken and is more effective than Inbox repair tool provided with Outlook i.e. Scanpst.exe. This OST repair tool provides two options to recover email messages and to repair an OST file, you may choose either of them depending on severity of the OST file corruption. Our application can perfectly repair 2010 OST file and other older versions. Password protected PST files can be repaired using this tool. It has capability to recover email messages, folders, calendar items, contacts, appointments, meeting requests, RSS feeds, tasks, journals and notes from Outlook file.

steps for Outlook repair OST 2007:

Step 1: Launch the software to get its main screen. You can see three options available on it i.e. "Open PST File", "Find PST File", and "Select Outlook Profile" as shown below in Figure A. If you know the location of corrupted OST file on your computer select "Open PST File" or else you can choose "Find PST File", if you don’t know the location of OST file. You may also select "Select Outlook Profile" option for selecting corrupt OST file from different Outlook profiles on your PC.

Figure A - Main Screen

Step 2: Browse the corrupted OST file location on your computer and click on "Next" button as shown in Figure B.

Figure B - Browse OST File location

Step 3: Select the scanning method and browse destination folder for saving repaired OST file. Now press "Repair" button to start the repair process as shown in Figure C.

Figure C - Select Scanning Method & Destination Folder

Step 4: You can preview recovered emails and other Outlook attributes in Outlook style browser as shown in Figure D.

Figure D - Preview Outlook Data