{"id":6249,"date":"2020-12-24T09:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T09:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kerneldatarecovery.com\/blog\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2021-08-10T05:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T05:07:08","slug":"fix-outlook-uses-an-old-copy-of-your-outlook-ost-data-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerneldatarecovery.com\/blog\/fix-outlook-uses-an-old-copy-of-your-outlook-ost-data-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Error: Outlook uses an old copy of your Outlook data file (OST) \u2013 How to fix?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Email users generally like Outlook due to its rich features and the ability to connect with multiple email servers simultaneously. Most of the time, Outlook opens smoothly, and you can see your default mailbox without any issues. Sometimes, when the user tries to open the OST file, it gives an error indicating an older OST file.<\/p>\n

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The error message says:<\/p>\n

\u2018Outlook uses an old copy of your Outlook data file (.ost). Exit Outlook, delete the file, and restart Outlook. A new file will be automatically created the next time you initiate a send\/receive.\u2019<\/p>\n

After reading, you will understand that you are using an older version of the offline OST file. To remove the error message, you should delete the OST file from its location and restart Outlook. Outlook creates a new OST file when it does not find a data file, and you can click the send\/receive button.<\/p>\n

Delete the OST file<\/h4>\n

To delete the OST file, you should know the location of the correct OST file. A different version of Outlook saves the OST files in another folder, and you should see the path to such folders.<\/p>\n