Hotmail Support to Resolve the Issues of Oversized OST File

Hotmail is globally known for its excellent emailing services because of its various amazing features that make it completely different from the other emailing applications due to which it is widely prefer by the business person and an individual. However, Hotmail function well but then also some issues occur like increase size of the OST file which specially occur in the Outlook 2002 because of its storage capacity up to 2GB. This problem is common, so to have the instant solution you can contact various Hotmail support.

Issues that you may face when the file limit get crossed due to increase size of the OST file are:

• Unable to load or open the OST file
• Incapable to add any of the data
• Unable to synchronize the Exchange server with the OST file
• Number of messages appear as the error during the process of synchronization

After the launch of Outlook 2003, there was no any limitation problem for the storage because this version uses the file format of Unicode through which we can easily increases the limit more than 2GB. Through this we can easily store data in the OST file more than 2GB.

How to change OST file to Unicode?

To change the OST file to Unicode, firstly you should check that your Outlook is in Unicode or not and then follow the steps as shown below:

• Open the Outlook then click on Tools and then on Account Settings. Now click on E-mail tab and then click two times on Microsoft Exchange.
• Now click on the button More Settings and after that select tab

If you find as “Outlook is running in Unicode mode” then it signify that your Outlook is running in non-Unicode mode. Below are the steps through which you can change this mode:

• You need not require checking the option Use Cached Exchange Mode and if you see the option you must restart Outlook for these changes to take effect, then you required to click on
• Now click the button Offline Folder File Settings and then further copy the way to OST file.
• Now close the Outlook.
• Now delete the OST file that you earlier found.
• Now open the Outlook and start in online mode without the presence of Offline file.
• Now enable the Cached Exchange Mode.
• Open your Outlook, you will find that your Outlook started to download the complete messages from the server.
• Now verifies Outlook to know that whether your Outlook is running in Unicode mode or not. For the verification process you need to select Tools then Account Settings then Microsoft exchange, further more settings and then Advance tab. You will get the status as the message Outlook is running in Unicode mode next to Microsoft Exchange. Now wait until you get the status as all folders are up to date.

Thus, through the above method you can easily fixed the problem of OST increased file sized and if you are not able to do it yourself then you can also call Hotmail support number to have the perfect solution regarding your any of the issues with your Hotmail account. Hotmail support services can be access at any moment to have solution for keeping your Hotmail account away from any of the error occurrence.