Unlimited OST Files Recovery and Export
When managing multiple mailboxes at once, exporting several OST files to PST quickly becomes a practical requirement. This is common during large-scale mailbox recovery, data migration projects, or when working with inactive or disconnected Outlook profiles. However, built-in Outlook export options offer limited support, particularly for large, corrupted, or orphaned OST files, making bulk exports slow and unreliable.
EdbMails OST to PST Converter is designed to handle large-scale OST exports with ease, allowing unlimited file conversion without size limits. It supports all Outlook versions including 2021, 2019, 2016, and earlier, and ensures complete recovery of emails, calendars, contacts, notes, tasks, and attachments while preserving folder structure, metadata, and overall data integrity for both individual and organizational needs.
In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to select OST files, configure export options, and save the data in PST format. With EdbMails, you can recover and convert Outlook data effortlessly, even from damaged OST files without relying on PowerShell scripts or manual setups.
Advantages of EdbMails OST to PST converter
- Unlimited OST recovery and export: EdbMails allows for unlimited recovery and export of OST mailboxes, making it easy to access and backup email data in your computer.
- Email saving options: You can save individual emails to EML, MHT, and HTML formats, for various requirements.
- Easy data extraction: With EdbMails, you can extract emails, contacts, calendars, tasks, notes, and journals and also split an oversized OST file to multiple PST files.
- OST file Conversion: EdbMails can convert offline and orphaned OST files into Outlook PST format, providing seamless access to email data.
- Recovery of corrupt OST files: EdbMails can recover corrupt and ransomware victim OST files, ensuring that valuable data is not lost.
- Maintains original folder structure: EdbMails maintains the original data and folder structure of the OST file, ensuring that exported PST files are an identical copy of the source file. It can also convert ANSI and Unicode non-English special characters in your emails without changing the email formatting.
- No data modification or deletion: Exporting OST to PST with EdbMails does not result in any modifications or deletions of the source file and is capable of migrating OST to Office 365 and Live Exchange.
- Customizable email export filters: You can export specific mail items using Include/Exclude filter settings, making it easy to convert only the data you require.
EdbMails OST to PST converter tool offers
- Lifetime licenses and free software upgrades
- Free 24/7 Technical Support for lifetime
- Support for all Outlook and Windows computers
- Opening OST files and previewing the data before export
Export OST data to PST using EdbMails Software
Step 1: Download and install EdbMails OST to PST converter tool
- Download and install the EdbMails application on any Windows-based computer.
- Launch the EdbMails application on your system
- Enter your registered email address and password, then click ‘Login’. New users can select ‘Start Your Free Trial’ to continue with the trial version.Note: The Free Trial allows you to access all features and export up to 30 items from each folder. To remove this limitation and enable full access, a valid license must be purchased from the EdbMails website.
Click here to purchase the license from the EdbMails website.
Once the purchase is complete, close and reopen the EdbMails application. Then, log in with the same email address and password used during the purchase to activate your license.
- Select ‘OST Recovery and Migration’.
- Select ‘OST to PST’.
- You may keep the default job name as it is, or select the ‘New Job’ option if you want to rename and create a new job.
- Then click 'Next' to continue.
Step 2: Select the OST file containing your mailbox data
- Click ‘Browse for OST file'.
- Select the OST file that you want to export from your computer drive, then click the ‘Next’ button to continue. If needed, you can also choose an OST file located on a network drive, provided it has the required read and write permissions enabled.
- Click ‘Browse’.
- Select the folder where you want to save the exported PST files, and ensure the drive has enough free space for the export.
- EdbMails thoroughly examines the offline OST file to restore mailbox data, even if the file is damaged or corrupted. It carefully evaluates the file’s structure and internal data to retrieve emails and other mailbox items. The scan duration may vary based on the file size and the extent of corruption, so allowing the process to finish ensures complete and accurate recovery.
- Once the recovery is complete, the application presents the OST file data with its original folder and subfolder structure fully intact. You can easily expand any folder to browse through its contents. Selecting a folder, such as Emails, Contacts, Notes, Tasks, or Calendar, displays all related items, along with a clear and detailed preview on the right side of the screen. With EdbMails OST to PST Converter, you can open OST files even without installing Outlook.
Step 3: Preview and select the mailbox
- Select the required mailboxes/folders and click the ‘Next’ button.
- EdbMails allows you to apply filters to customize your export process. For example, you can use date filters to export items within a specific date range. To do this, go to the ‘General’ tab on the left side and then click the ‘Settings’ tab at the top right.
Click here to learn more about setting date filters for OST to PST conversion.
Step 4: Export the rebuilt OST file to PST
- EdbMails OST to PST converter ensures fast and accurate conversion of offline OST files to PST format. Review the selected mailboxes and folders for the export operation, ensure the ‘Action’ is set to ‘Export’, and then click the ‘Start Export’ button to begin the export process.
- The export process has started, and you can track its progress through the status bar. The interface shows the mailbox and folder being exported, the destination PST file location, and the count of items successfully exported. When the export is complete, EdbMails will display a message confirming that the operation has finished.
- Download and install the EdbMails application on any Windows-based computer.
