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Clumpco28-Apr-15 20:51

Clumpco

28-Apr-15 20:51

There seems to be some confusion here. OST files are only used when Outlook is connected to an Exchange Server account, if you are using IMAP or POP then there are only PST files. Contacts and Calendars are usually stored in the default PST file.
Perhaps you should look at the excellent EM Client[^] which will import PST files without Outlook being installed.

If on the other hand you really have an OST file (with a recent date on it) then you must have an Exchange account somewhere and your contact data will be there (OSTs are only an offline copy of the Exchnge Server folders).
Quoting Billy-Bob Gates:

Outlook Data Files (.ost) are used when you have an Exchange account and want to work offline or use or use the default Cached Exchange Mode. This type of data file is also used for accounts that you set up with the Outlook Connector for Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail). Outlook Data Files (.ost) are always copies of items that are saved on a mail server and don’t need to be backed up like Outlook Data Files (.pst).

Hope this helps.

Michael Martin28-Apr-15 21:26

Michael Martin

28-Apr-15 21:26

Clumpco wrote:
There seems to be some confusion here. OST files are only used when Outlook is connected to an Exchange Server account, if you are using IMAP or POP then there are only PST files. Contacts and Calendars are usually stored in the default PST file.
Perhaps you should look at the excellent EM Client[^] which will import PST files without Outlook being installed.

Been a Sys Admin for the last 15 years and a programmer for 11 before that. Know the difference and where everything is located. Definitely an OST.

Thanks for the tip on EM Client, looks like it will be useful for clients issues in the future.

<edit>
Forget to put this[^] link in showing Outlook 2013 and IMAP has changed.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

Clumpco28-Apr-15 22:32

Clumpco

28-Apr-15 22:32

Michael Martin wrote:
Been a Sys Admin for the last 15 years and a programmer for 11 before that. Know the difference and where everything is located. Definitely an OST.

No disrespect intended, I assure you.

Michael Martin wrote:
Forget to put this[^] link in showing Outlook 2013 and IMAP has changed.

Oh the b@st@rds! Having so far managed to avoid 2013 I was not aware of this.

Michael Martin wrote:
Thanks for the tip on EM Client, looks like it will be useful for clients issues in the future.

Yes, notably for the Windows 8.1 Mail app which will not import Outlook Express (another "feature" from Microsoft).

Alternate thought of the day

Kirk 1038982129-Apr-15 4:53

Kirk 10389821

29-Apr-15 4:53

You probably thought of this.
But what about booting in safe mode without networking?
Maybe the few extra minutes you could dump what you need?

Also, check the bluescreen details. Maybe you could disable whatever device is the underlying cause.

RIP Keith Harris

Nagy Vilmos28-Apr-15 0:17

Nagy Vilmos

28-Apr-15 0:17

Digital Spy[^] :
Keith Harris has died at the age of 67.

The entertainer and ventriloquist was best known for his partnership with his puppets Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey.

Orville is quoted as saying "Bowocks!"

veni bibi saltavi

Re: RIP Keith Harris

chriselst28-Apr-15 0:27

chriselst

28-Apr-15 0:27

He looked like my father-in-law.

Saw him play Butlins at Bognor when I was working there 15 years ago, very funny and very blue act after all the kids had been kicked out.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Re: RIP Keith Harris

Nagy Vilmos28-Apr-15 0:34

Nagy Vilmos

28-Apr-15 0:34

I never saw him live but I heard he was pretty raw. I did however once know a girl who looked very much like Cuddles. Laugh | :laugh:

veni bibi saltavi

Daniel Pfeffer27-Apr-15 23:59

Daniel Pfeffer

27-Apr-15 23:59

What if conspiracies are started by corporations so they can sell more tin foil?
Smile | :)

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

--Winston Churchill

User 1013254628-Apr-15 0:07

User 10132546

28-Apr-15 0:07

Did you know about the international conspiracy to keep people calling aluminium foil tin foil? WTF | :WTF:

How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.

Daniel Pfeffer28-Apr-15 0:14

Daniel Pfeffer

28-Apr-15 0:14

It's nothing but a tissue of lies. Smile | :)

grralph128-Apr-15 0:10

grralph1

28-Apr-15 0:10

....and the weird thing is that tin foil isn't made of tin.
These conspiracies are worse than I thought.

Edit
Whilst I typed Brent beat me to it....

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980

User 1013254628-Apr-15 0:16

User 10132546

28-Apr-15 0:16

grralph1 wrote:
Whilst I typed Brent beat me to it....

Move along, nothing to see here! Laugh | :laugh:

How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.

grralph128-Apr-15 0:23

grralph1

28-Apr-15 0:23

I am Moving...

Foiled again.

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980

P0mpeyBoy28-Apr-15 0:13

P0mpeyBoy

28-Apr-15 0:13

We must act to foil it.

Nagy Vilmos28-Apr-15 0:35

Nagy Vilmos

28-Apr-15 0:35

Your rapier wit strikes again!

veni bibi saltavi

WSO CCC OTD 2015-04-28 (now with even more final added Clueishness)

Gary R. Wheeler28-Apr-15 6:42

Gary R. Wheeler

28-Apr-15 6:42

Reynolds'[^] plan for world domination.

Software Zen: delete this;

OriginalGriff27-Apr-15 22:06

27-Apr-15 22:06

False fox? Cut the corner! (7)

Clue: http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/false[^]

Clue2: Fox[^]

Clue3: Enormous clue for last five minutes[^]

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

modified 28-Apr-15 8:02am.

Agent__00727-Apr-15 22:45

Agent__007

27-Apr-15 22:45

"Channel"?

You have just been Sharapova'd.

OriginalGriff27-Apr-15 22:56

27-Apr-15 22:56

Nope.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

super27-Apr-15 22:56

super

27-Apr-15 22:56

shyster

cheers,

Super

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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

OriginalGriff27-Apr-15 23:02

27-Apr-15 23:02

Damn cheek! I only set the CCC...

(And no, it's not the answer)

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

super27-Apr-15 23:14

super

27-Apr-15 23:14

Of course !!!

Any clue in what direction we should proceed?

cheers,

Super

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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

OriginalGriff27-Apr-15 23:15

27-Apr-15 23:15

Not yet - it's a little early.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...