Select Export to a file from choose an action to perform and click Next.Method 1: Convert OST to PST using Import/Export Note: To execute manual methods, you must be connected to the Exchange server. The software will save your time, efforts, and provide you a risk-free conversion. If you don't have a technical background, then go with third-party software. To convert OST file to PST manually, you can try the manual methods or try SysCurve OST to PST converter free demo version. If you do not have the original email account, then the user can use the OST Converter tool to convert OST to PST format. The original email account is mandatory to use Microsoft utility. To make this process easy, user needs to convert OST to PST.
Moving OST into a new machine is a difficult task. It stores all exchange mailbox objects like emails, calendars, contacts, journals, etc. The OST file is a copy of the Exchange mailbox on the local machine. To migrate OST file data to a new email client, the user first needs to perform OST to PST conversion. It's a huge challenge to migrate the entire mailbox data to a new email client. Because of these situations, users may lose mailbox data like emails, contacts, etc. which makes OST inaccessible, or sometimes they corrupt OST. OST is a sensitive file, and there are various situations like mailbox synchronization problem, power cut, exchange server crash, a hardware problem, etc. There are various reasons and situations when users need to perform OST to PST conversion, such as corruption, migration, job change, moving OST file data to a new machine, and backup.