Outlook 2011 for Mac failed to Open or Export Mail Data to an OLM File and Gives Errors

Are you unable to open or transfer Mail Data to an OLM file? If YES then don’t worry because the solution of such problem has been found by the professionals. Users may face difficulties and get error messages while rebuilding identity or may also gets unable to open the outlook altogether.

Users would get error migrating emails if they get successful to export the emails then there is a chance of data missing. It happens because outlook gets unable to export large emails sized database to OLM files at a time. Sometimes it may even crash while exporting the mails without giving any error message on the screen and user thinks that it has transferred all the data to OLM files. So it is important to know the reasons of corruption:

Some mail scenarios are given that may Corrupt Outlook 2011 (OLM) Files:

• Failure of Network while database is in open or working state
• Improper installation of Outlook on the Mac machine
• Sudden crash of MS Outlook for Mac 2011 which may lead inaccessible OLM file
• Server crashed.
• Unexpected system shutdown
• Occurrence of error while upgrading outlook from its lower version to upper
• Due to old version of Outlook
• Failure of Hard drive

The most common error messages you can get from OLM file are:

• Error – ‘Cannot find [PATH]OLM.DLL’
• Error – ‘An unknown error has occurred in Outlook. Error code – 17199’
• Error – ‘This application failed to start because OLM.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem’

Now you need to execute OLM Recovery, this process can be done by the help of any one of the given method. First method is with the use of previous created backup file and second is using third party OLM repair tool. If you have an updated backup of your OLM database then you can easily get rid of all these, simply restore the backup file but make sure that backup file is updated because restoring an outdated backup file may harm your stored data.

Second method is using a third party Outlook Mac Database Recovery tool, this can not only restore the email data from corrupt database identity of outlook but can also makes you able to remove all types of OLM errors. This utility is programmed with the use of advanced recovery techniques so when you recover OLM though this then it make sure that none of your emails are missing from database. This tool may also recover calendar and contacts from damaged outlook database. Via this way you can save you from harass of organizing emails again and again.

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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