Converting oversized OST to PST file in MS Outlook 2002

Are you using MS Outlook 2002 as your email application? Also, are you working on it in the offline mode? If the answer to both the questions is YES, then you should be careful about its usage as the OST (Offline Storage Table) file can become corrupt once it crosses 2 GB. In such cases, you should try to upgrade to higher versions of Outlook and/or repair the OST file. If the problem is not resolved, then you should use a third-party OST PST converter to recover the OST file and convert OST to an equivalent PST file.

Consider a scenario wherein you are working on MS Outlook 2002 in the offline mode. You are trying to synchronize the OST file with the Exchange Server. In this process, the size of the OST file exceeds 2 GB. After this happens, you are unable to add more email or other objects to the OST file. An error message is displayed, when you try anything of this sort, which is:

“Task 'Microsoft Exchange Server' reported error (0x00040820):'Errors in background synchronization. In most cases, further information is available in a synchronization log in the Deleted Items folder.'”

Cause:

The root cause for this problem is that the size of the OST file has gone beyond 2 GB. Because of this, the OST file has become corrupt. In such cases, the mail delivery to the OST file stops. However, you do not get any error message suggesting why is this happening so.

Resolution:

To resolve this problem, you should upgrade to MS Outlook 2003 as this Outlook version allows to have more than 2 GB of OST file size and then try to repair the OST file using the in-built OST Integrity Checker tool. The OST file will be repaired once you use this utility.

However, if the problem is still persisting and you are unable to work properly with the OST file, then you should convert OST to PST file. As Outlook does not provide any in-built tool to do the OST-PST conversion, you should use a third-party OST to PST converter. Such read-only tools are completely safe in nature and do not effect the original OST file during the conversion.

Advanced OST to PST converter that converts OST to PST file by recovering OSTs files from all sorts of corruption. Specially designed to recover OST files created in MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000, this OST to PST conversion software repairs various Outlook objects such as emails (with attachments), calendar entries, contacts, tasks, journals, etc. In addition, this convert OST to PST utility preserves the formatting of the HTML and RTF messages during the OST-PST conversion. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

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