Yep. Been there. What a pain. Basically your OST is encrypted (whether you specify it to be or not) and it is linked to a key that travels with your NT account. No Account = No OST. Go to www.officerecovery.com <http://www.officerecovery.com> . They have the converter. If what is in the OST is worth the price, their converter will work. They have a demo that will pull all the header info from an OST into a pst - the demo does not pull the msg body though.
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Importing .OST file to another mailbox... Yea, Your screwed. There is an OST to PST converter. I think it is around $400. People here will tell you to try about a dozen things, but none will work. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Phan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:37 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Importing .OST file to another mailbox... Hi everyone, I have a question about how to import mail files, specifically .ost files ! I have an .ost file from an existing NT account created earlier say "james" and the "james" as the name of this mailbox. Now the guy is gone and I had deleted this account. But now we have decided to recreate his account because we want to redirect his mail to someone else. I am able to recreate the account and mailbox without any problems but I need to see his previous mail that is stored from the .ost file! Is there a way I can import/merger from Outlook client or from the Exchange server to get his existing .ost file into this newly created mailbox? When I set the .ost to the path of the old mailbox it says that it isn't the right mailbox so it can't be used! Thanks in advance of any help you can provide. Dan List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
