OST Reached Maximum Size
Saturday, January 13th, 2007A MS offline folder is more like a replica of the server-based folder. The best aspect about OST file is it provides the easiest way to work with your mailbox content in situation when the network access is not available. You must keep in mind that whenever you delete the master mailbox, the offline folder gets orphaned and it nearly gets impossible for you to access the information. Therefore, in order to have a proper access of data from an offline folder, it is very important that it gets converted into .pst file. However, you must keep in mind that there are situations when it actually gets very important for you to delete some of Exchange Server mailboxes. Usually, such instances take place when the size of your mailbox store database has reached to its default limit of 2 GB.
In general, email client such as Microsoft Outlook is limited to 2 Gigabyte maximum size for the Offline folder store (OST) and Local Personal (PST) store files. Therefore, the normal quota for the Exchange Mail System is two gigabytes per user.
Microsoft Outlook displays the Mailbox Cleanup Wizard when the quota hard limit has been reached (when using Microsoft Outlook). The mailbox cleanup utilities provide a rich set of options for searching and archiving messages to a local store (PST) file. However, kindly note that Microsoft outlook 2003 and 2007 does not have this limitation.
In most of the occasions, we don’t pay much attention to the size issue and this is when the corruption strikes the database. However, even if you are facing such situation you don’t have to worry. All you have got to do is just convert file from OST format to PST format. A proper usage of OST to PST conversion utility like Kernel for OST to PST conversion tool can be very helpful for user to recover data from inaccessible OST and save it in a newly created PST file. Perhaps, it is the most advanced utility that can recover all email messages, notes, journals, tasks and other Outlook contents in almost all situations. The tool is usable in all cases when .ost file fails to be synchronized. Besides this, the tool has got the ability to restore emails in Plain Text, RTF, and HTML format.
