From: anacharcis on

Hi 5talents,
I have the same problem... Have you found a solution to it?



5talents;907805 Wrote:
> Milly,
> Do you have any idea what is in a .nst file? It somehow synchronizes
> Outlook
> and Hotmail. E-mail is definitely stored in the file (as I said we
> renamed it
> to .ost and used a 3rd party recovery program to read parts of it).
> Anyone
> from the Outlook Connector team read these discussions?
>
> Regards,
> 5talents
>
> "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>
> > An .ost file is for Exchange offline folders, not for any data used
> by a
> > non-Exchange server user.
> >
> > Interesting...
> >
> > --
> > Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> >
> > Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> > ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
> > How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> >
> >
> > After furious head scratching, 5talents asked:
> >
> > | Milly,
> > | I tried that. Outlook said "not a .pst file". After searching
> online,
> > | I found one instance of someone else having a similar problem (in
> > | early 2008). They renamed the file to .ost and then paid $200 to
> > | convert it to a .pst file. I tried a demo version of some software
> to
> > | do this - the e-mail comes through but the contacts don't.
> > |
> > | We are running the latest version of "Outlook Connector". Is there
> > | anyone on that team that can tell me what is in the .nst file?
> > | Apparently, it is undocumented.
> > |
> > | Regards,
> > | 5talents
> > |
> > | "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
> > |
> > || Make a copy of the file before you try this.
> > ||
> > || Rename the file to outlook.pst and then try to open it in Outlook
> > || using File->Open->Outlook Data File.
> > ||
> > || --
> > || Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> > ||
> > || ALWAYS post your Outlook version!
> > || Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
> > || How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
> > ||
> > ||
> > || "5talents" <5talents(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > || news:90E64966-66D0-4E2C-BB1C-567BA87BC602(a)microsoft.com...
> > || Today my wife's hotmail account got hacked. All that's left on
> her
> > || computer is a large outlook.nst file (1 GB) and some small .pst
> > || files (28MB). She can no longer access her hotmail account. It
> seems
> > || to me that her old e-mails and
> > || contacts are in the outlook.nst file, but we cannot open it. Can
> > || anyone tell me what is stored in the .nst file and how we can
> read
> > || it?
> >
> >
> >