Mac Outlook Recovery if OLM File Becomes Unreadable Post Corruption

Data loss is a very critical scenario for any user. Hard disk failure, operating system malfunction, system breakdown, and virus infection are some common reason that leads to data loss scenario. Such issue can take place at any time and can affect your operating system. When you face data loss there are chances that you may lose your critical E-mails messages, tasks, notes, contacts, and other data from Outlook for Mac. In such case the updated backup is very helpful and saves your time in getting back the data.

MS Outlook for Mac offers you following easy and effective backup ways that are very useful to prevent data loss. 

OLM File Backup

• You can use Export option present under File menu.
• Choose “Outlook for Mac Data File (.olm)” option and choose the items to include.
• Select “No, do not delete items” option.
• Copy Microsoft User Data Folder
• Move to Documents directory- /Users/username/Documents/.
• Copy the Microsoft User Data folder.
• Paste the folder to external hard drive or backup drive.

When you want to restore the data from the backup file then you can do the following.

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• Use Import option present under the File menu, Choose OLM file, and hit on Continue.
• Close all the MS Office applications and copy the Microsoft User Data folder in Documents. Reboot your Outlook and allow it to Rebuild the database using Database Utility tool to hold new data.

The database restore from the backup file looks to be the very easy, quick, and straightforward process.  But sometime you find it difficult to restore the data from the backup file especially OLM file. But the issue rise when your OLM file gets damage and Outlook fail to recognize it.

OLM file corruption is the frequent issue so you need to use a third party repair tool in order to repair your damaged or corrupt OLM file. OLM Repair Tool software is capable of extracting inaccessible data from the damaged OLM file which become Unreadable. It can easily restore all the Outlook data file objects, like mails, notes, tasks, contacts, calendar entries, appointments, attachments, and many more.