Mac Outlook Recovery if OLM file becomes unreadable post corruption

Outlook for Mac is an advanced e-mail client for Mac OS X operating system. It is a part of Microsoft office for Mac application suite in office for Mac 2011. The entire data of Mac Outlook is stored in file extension that is .olm file. This file extension is connected with Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac – a private information manager developed by Microsoft organization. An OLM file stores information such as e-mail messages, contacts, calendars, outlook folders and other data. But sometime due to several reasons your Mac Outlook e-mail clients gets corrupted and it becomes unreadable and inaccessible.

Reasons like system failure, hard disk breakdown, virus attack and malfunction of operating system are some of the most frequently causes for data corruption and loss. Such types of problems can occur at any point of time and it can affect any version of operating system, including Mac OS X. At the time when you when you come across  data loss scenario , you may also lose your important e-mails, contacts, calendar, notes, tasks and other various data from Outlook for Mac. In such cases if you have kept any updated backup, then it comes very useful that helps you in restoring your data and saves your time in Mac outlook recovering process.

However if you do not have any backup, MS Outlook for Mac offer you the following effective and easy methods, which is very handy to prevent data loss.

OLM File Backup

• Use Export option under File menu.
• Select “Outlook for Mac Data File (.olm)” option and select the items to include.
• Select “No, do not delete items” option.

        Copy Microsoft User Data Folder

• Go to Documents directory/Users/username/Documents/.
• Copy Microsoft User Data folder.
• Paste the folder to external hard drive or backup drive.

At the time when you required restoring the data from backup, you can follow the below steps:

• Use Import option under File menu, select the OLM file, and click Continue.
• Close all MS Office applications and copy Microsoft User Data folder in Documents.
• Restart Outlook and let it rebuild the database using Database Utility tool to accommodate new items.

Though the database recovery from backup looks fast, easy and straightforward procedure, but sometimes, you will find it very tough to recover the data from backup, particularly OLM file. The issues usually occur if the OLM file itself is corrupted or damaged and Outlook cannot identify it.

OLM File Repair

The corruption in OLM files occurs frequently and you have to fix the problems in order to access the data stored in OLM files and it can be done by the help of third party OLM file repair tool. This tool is capable of efficiently recovering of inaccessible data form corrupted, damaged or broken OLM files. It restore the entire Outlook data objects such as e-mails, contacts, notes, task, calendar entries, attachments, appointments, etc. So, if you find any corruption or errors while opening your OLM file then you can always use this appropriate OLM file repair tool.

Steps for using OLM repair tool are shown below:

Step 1: Click ‘Browse’ to select the corrupt/damaged OLM file and start the repairing process by clicking the ‘Start’ button.

Step 2: The scanning process starts, which is indicated by the ‘Scanning OLM File’ status bar. You can click the ‘Stop’ button to discontinue the process in the middle.

Step 3: After completion of the OLM repair process, the software provides the detailed summary of the entire process which shows the number of recoverable mail objects.

Step 4: : Click on the “mail” icon to preview your recoverable mail in which middle pane shows the mail in the selected mail folder from the left and right pane shows the content from middle pane.

Step 5: Click the ‘Address Book’ icon to preview your recoverable contacts in which middle pane shows all the contacts in the adress book and right pane shows the details of the selected contact.

Step 6: Click the ‘Calendar’ icon to preview your recoverable Calendar notes in which middle pane shows all the calendar entries and the right pane shows the details of the selected entry.

Step 7: By hitting the ‘Notes’ icon, you can preview your recoverable notes. The middle pane will show all the notes which is available in your mailbox and right pane shows contents of the selected note.

Step 8: Hit the ‘Task’ icon to preview your recoverable tasks in which middle pane will show all the task in the mailbox and right pane will show the content of the selected task.

Step 9: Click on the ‘Save Repaired File’ to save the recovered mail objects. Provide the destination name and the file will be saved by the name-Main identity.rge.

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