How to Open OST File in Outlook 2013 after Error Emergence?
- Are you using Outlook 2013?
- Are you working in an Exchange server set up conjugated with Outlook 2013 application at the client side systems?
- Are you troubled with OST file corruption?
- Are you facing error that says – “Cannot open your default email folders. The file xxxx.ost is not an offline folder file.” where 'xxxx.ost' denotes the name of the OST file that was created by your Outlook program while you were working with your MS Exchange mailbox in the offline mode.
- Are you enabling to read Outlook emails at the downtime Exchange Server due to corruption of OST file?
Reasons Responsible
More often than not, there always are 2 major reasons responsible for popping up such an error, which as explained as below:
- Either your offline folder file of Outlook, the OST file, is corrupted or destroyed somehow and therefore it cannot be recognized by your MS Outlook program, and which is why Outlook is reporting such type of an error.
- Or your OST file has been associated with some mailbox on the server and for certain reasons, Outlook is unable to access that mailbox or it is not able to start with the synchronization process for the mailbox with your offline folders in that OST file, and thus it reports such an error.
Why It Happens?
This might happen due to any of following follies at your end:
- In the Outlook email program, you might not have set the email account for getting an access to the MS Exchange mailbox correctly
- In your Outlook email application, you might have deleted your email account for your MS Exchange mailbox
- In the Exchange server, your mailbox or your email account for the server mailbox has been somehow disabled or completely deleted by your admin
- There might be some communication problems between Outlook and Exchange
- You probably do not have any Exchange server email account or mailbox at all. Or your Exchange server email account is based on IMAP, POP3, HTTP or any different email servers which are other than the Exchange server but by mistake you might have set your email account for Exchange-based server
How to Open OST File in Outlook 2013?
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