Outlook Connector NST Files

[5talents]

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?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

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


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?

 

[5talents]

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]]

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
||
||
|| || 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?

 

[5talents]

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

 

[anacharcis]

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

Milly,
Do you have any idea what is in a .nst file? It somehow synchronize
Outlook
and Hotmail. E-mail is definitely stored in the file (as I said w
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

An .ost file is for Exchange offline folders, not for any data use 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 searchin 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 softwar 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
||
||
|| || Today my wife's hotmail account got hacked. All that's left o her
|| computer is a large outlook.nst file (1 GB) and some small .pst
|| files (28MB). She can no longer access her hotmail account. I 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 ca read
|| it?