Data Recovery Software: February 2015

OST files are the main data repository of MS Outlook when the user is working in an offline mode. To put in other way, OST files are the replica of data stored in mailbox on the Exchange server. Although these OST files store all the offline data, but the biggest disadvantage they possess is their unsupportive nature in other email clients and systems other than the one in which they are created.

PDF (Portable Document File) files, as clear from the name is widely used for its portability, security, ease of usage and many more factors. PDF files can easily be exchanged through web, making it the first choice of users. All the factors make PDF files suitable for conversion of OST files to PDF file.

In this blog post we will discuss some scenarios which lead to the conversion of OST files to PDF file and the freeware converter OST to PDF which we can deploy in order to perform the conversion.

Scenarios Leading To OST to PDF Conversion

At times users switch from MS Outlook to other email clients. In such situations the users desire to save the existing data in OST file to a format which can easily save the data and also can make it portable. PDF files become the immediate choice for this purpose. OST files can easily be converted to PDF files. These PDF files can be secured by user level password so as to keep it safe from others. Also the data stored in PDF files can be downloaded and converted to other file formats if needed in future.

Also at times OST files undergo corruption due to various issues. Therefore the users tend to search for a way to convert the corrupted data in a healthy format that can be easily accessed. PDF files serve this purpose in an efficient manner.

Freeware Converter OST to PDF

Although PDF serves as a suitable format for storing OST data, but unfortunately there exists no manual method to do OST to PDF file conversion. But the story does not end here. You can easily convert OST files to PDF format with external tools available in the market. One such tool is freeware OST to PDF Converter. It efficiently converts OST files to PDF files. It creates PDF files from emails of OST file in batch. OST to PDF converter freeware supports Outlook 2010 corrupted OST file conversion to PDF format with ease. The biggest advantage is that the tool offers is that it is available for free. The users can download it for free from the website and can carry out the conversion without spending a single penny.

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