Accessing Outlook .pst files in New Outlook

Anonymous
2024-06-04T14:06:01+00:00

I have twenty years of history in various .pst files.  When I first started using Outlook, my single .pst file and all my folders got too large and I was instructed to move some of my folders into new .pst files.  These .pst files contain lots of important emails and historic records attached to emails.  So I filed all the emails into various folders within various .pst files. 

If Outlook will no longer support .pst files, how will I be able to access the .pst files?  I understand that Microsoft will no longer support “Old Outlook”.  So what can I now do to be able to access these various .pst files?  Should i go back to what I was doing originally and move everything from .pst files into folders within my "root" Outlook email? That would put about 4.5G of emails into my New Outlook. How will that work?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-14T20:16:38+00:00

    As I´ve posted before, my new laptop came with WIndows11 and "New Outlook", through which I can´t save emails as pst files or access decades of archived emails (pop account) as I used to with Outlook2010 (desktop app) in my old laptop.

    Ourlook2010 doesn´t run on Windows11 and acquiring a Microsoft365 license or uploading the huge pst files to webmail / cloud is not in my plans for the time being. So, the solution was to create a "Virtual Machine" with Windows10 in my new laptop where my Outlook2010 can run and I can go on managing my old and new emails - still archived as pst files - as I used to.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-05T19:42:00+00:00

    Outlook New is the web-based client that is replacing the Windows 10/11 Mail and Calendar app and is supposed to eventually replace Classic Outlook Desktop. Classic Desktop is the Outlook that has been around since 1998, is part of Office 365, and uses .PST files.

    So Outlook New [I hope there is a better name] which is web based is supposed to support PST files directly? Or import?

    But if I toggle on "Try the new Outlook" in Microsoft 365, there will be no access to PST files at all - other than importing them into the mailbox. So if I want to continue to use PST files in Classic Outlook for Desktop [part of Office], I shouldn't toggle "On" then.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-15T15:47:43+00:00

    I would keep using the pst supporting version of Outlook. Problem is, it no longer accepts my password and MS just tell me to move to the new one! Really annoying!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-15T12:13:25+00:00
    1. Drag and drop them into the new IMAP account - takes forever to upload 50GB - lucky I have paid for the storage with TMC
    2. lots of waiting and now im all good.

    Two observations: you are paying for storage. The argument for .psts is you don't pay monthly/yearly costs for storage. You buy a computer that has the storage and you manage it from there.

    Second observation. Are you still waiting for those emails to upload? No wait time if Microsoft left .psts intact.

    According to some Microsoft FAQs .pst support is planned for sometime in 2025. Let's hope that is true.

    I'm willing to keep an eye on the progress and keep using the pst supporting version of Outlook.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-08T19:05:18+00:00

    YUP - It appears that with the hard implementation of the new security protocols the old (2019) version of Outlook will not even allow me to use that to continue to use that to access and maintain offline/on prem email storage. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!

    After over 20 years of training another trick, this old dog has to learn...

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