Technet is your friend. I encourage you to do a search and find the relevant article so you can learn the mechanism. Basically, though, an OST can only be opened by the profile that created it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "McCready, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:22 AM Subject: Evil OST files. > I have an user who lost some calendar information. He was using an OST > file. > I've tried recovering that OST file from the Friday backup tape, to see if I > could > find his data. However, I can't open the darn thing. When I try to open > the > file off-line, I either get the message > > Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The Exchange Server has > detected > that you are using an old copy of your OST file. Please delete your OST > file > and create a new one from the server. > > OR > > Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The information store could not > be > opened. > > I have tried deleting the old OST and putting this one in it's place, and > granted > the user full control over the file, no luck. Is there any way to read what > is > in this evil old OST file? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Exchange 5.5 SP4, Outlook 98. NT 4.0 SP6a. > > Robert > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]