Accessing Outlook .pst files in New Outlook

6. Drag and drop them into the new IMAP account - takes forever to upload 50GB - lucky I have paid for the storage with TMC
7. 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.

The only way I was able to get my 50GB of files from a PST to OST was to:

1. Close the PST files and inbox.
2. Remove the data file from the settings.
3. Create the IMAP email account - in my case OZEMAIL (run by themessagingco TMC)
4. send myself some emails and test.
5. Open the PST files closed previously.
6. Drag and drop them into the new IMAP account - takes forever to upload 50GB - lucky I have paid for the storage with TMC
7. lots of waiting and now im all good.

Microsoft is **** - doesnt listen and does what they want, constantly fiddling with buttons and ribbons whcih now take up more of the valuable screen space. But I guess they build it for the mass of people whom never used DOS and the like before.

Oh and on my second machine with other accounts i am now going with eMClient - seems pretty good at first glance

4. Considerations for Importing:
     - Keep in mind that importing a large amount of data (such as 4.5GB of emails) into your Outlook mailbox may impact performance, especially if your mailbox size reaches or exceeds the storage limits set by your email provider or your Admin.
5. Backup and Archiving:
     - As you make changes to your email management strategy, ensure that you have adequate backup and archiving procedures in place to safeguard your important email data. Regularly back up your Outlook mailbox to prevent data loss.

.pst files are the way to offload email provider storage limitations. I have years of .pst files and if they are imported to my email provider as suggested would most definitely exceed the storage limitations. .pst files are the only way too offload the storage requirements because the .pst files are on the storage devices I purchased and managed. I have no limitations on the size.

As is the usual stance with Microsoft, this is a move to, once again, make users less productive and create a money grab for Microsoft for those who will run out of email space and either have to lose their email or have to pay monthly and yearly fees for cloud storage that was never required with .pst files.

Put .pst files back to what they were - stored and accessed offline as opposed to forcing users to exceed email provider storage limitations.

I too am in this boat with PST's that go back to 1995. The last sync was sometime after midnight on October 9, 2024 EST. If I find a solution to this issue I'll post it here. MSFT is not going to provide any help based on my experience with them. Why would that? Keeping the meta data on all the messages in the PST's is just as important as the content of the email message. My 26 PST Files (For the most part 1 year of email each) contains a total of 112Gbytes.

I'm looking for a solution that will allow these messages to be indexed and searched with good speed (Like 10 to 15 seconds) as can be done by the last FAT Outlook Client. With this latest development there is no need to continue my subscription to Microsoft Office as there are plenty of options for old retired guys like me to use. I just need to find it......

Not a great day to be a Microsoft Subscriber.

it is so poor... SO POOR!!!! that MS did not consider how many people all over the world, have arhived mails (*.pst) - that after changing authentication method - cannot any longer be reached on live.mail... I have tried a lot of solutions instructed by MS and a lot of other experts in this field... but nothing works...

It is shame on you MS... that you did not provide a simple and workable method to import a *.pst file into live.mal.... you are bout to force us all to go web-based... fine - but think again... I guess... that you... who are working out this new scheme... were not even born!! when I stored my first e-mails.... Since you claim to be so clever.... I honestly wonder, that it should be so difficult to include the ability to import *.pst from a local harddisk to the web-based outlook?? you are blabbing a lot about One-Drive all the time.... really? -