A Quick way to Extract the Calendar from an OST file

Aleck Steve
4 min readJan 25, 2023

In this post, we are going to explain the method ‘How to Extract the Calendar from an OST file” –Manual Method and Automated Method. We all are aware of the OST file format that allows you to work in offline mode for your Outlook mails like email, calendar, tasks, to-do, notes, and many more which is present on the local drive. MS-Outlook provides a tool/wizard from itself named as import/Export wizard in order to import and export the mailbox data or files from the Outlook. But to extract Calendar or any other files your outlook must have to connect with the Exchange servers.

Extract Calendar from the OST file –Manual Method

MS-Outlook has inbuilt Import/Export Tool to extract the Calendar Data from OST file and export into the PST file folders, the following steps are given below:-

1:- Start Microsoft-Outlook application and go to File>>Open & Export>>click on the Import/Export.

2:- Now, click on the Export to a file from the given options, click Next.

3:- After this, select Outlook Data File (.pst file) as the option and click on the Next tab.

4:- Select the Calendar folder and sub-folder from the retrieved folders of the OST file, click on the Next button.

5:- Click on the Browse option and provide the saving location of the PST file to which the Calendar folder will be exported. Click on the Finish button.

6:- After finishing this process, you have the OST file calendar extracted to a portable PST file at the desired location where you can load or import it to any Outlook account to view it.

Problems with the Manual Method

The manual method is effective, but it has some limitations that may irritate or disturb users. When the OST file is healthy, this method works well. Otherwise, you must first rebuild the OST file before beginning the extraction process. It is possible to permanently lose mailbox data and waste additional time if it recovers data from the OST, but it is not 100% reliable. This method works well when the data are small and the process is difficult for non-technical users. A corrupted or damaged OST file cannot be converted using this method. Therefore, if you want to get around these limitations, use a third-party tool that can undoubtedly extract calendar data and export it into PST file formats.

Read More: https://sysvita.com/blog/free-method-to-convert-olm-to-pst/

A Computerized Method for Getting the Calendar Out of the Outlook OST File

There are numerous third-party tools on the internet and online markets, but none of them are trustworthy. Here, I’d like to recommend Sysvita OST to PST Converter, which has been rated highly by IT professionals and experts. Let’s take a look at the built-in characteristics of this tool that set it apart from other third-party OST convert tools:

  • From the severely damaged OST file, quickly retrieve all mailbox data, including emails, calendars, tasks, notes, contacts, journals, tasks, and attachments.
  • Data from an OST file can be exported into Outlook PST along with multiple file formats like MSG, HTML, PDF, MBOX, EMLX, EML, NSG, vCard, and vCal.
  • With just a few clicks, restores deleted or permanently deleted email items from the OST file.
  • It lets you convert OST files directly into cloud storage applications like Office365 and Live Exchange Server.
  • You can view the recovered mailbox data with this tool’s smart preview features.
  • Depending on the requirements of the user, this tool can divide data from large OST files into multiple smaller PST and other file formats.
  • Provide a trial version that lets users convert the first thirty email messages from each OST folder to a PST file for free.
  • supports all versions of Microsoft Outlook, including the most recent versions (2007, 2010, 2016, 2019, and older).
  • It works perfectly with all versions of Windows, including Windows 95, 98, 8, 7, Vista, XP, ME, NT, and Windows 10 & 11 (32-bit and 64-bit).

Conclusion

The majority of users encounter difficulties when attempting to extract a calendar from an OST file. If the user is unable to locate a dependable and ideal method for viewing and saving the calendar from the OST file into the PST format, As a result, in the preceding section, we introduced the SysVita OST to PST Conversion Tool, which provides an easy, quick, and trouble-free method for exporting calendars from OST files into PST and other file formats.

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Aleck Steve

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