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
    2024-06-26T15:06:53+00:00

    They never reply

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-26T14:02:34+00:00

    What are the plans for supporting PSTs?

    Will New Outlook allow PSTs to be placed on cloud storage. I understand that the big problem is latency between on box storage and any form of Network storage,

    I have organized my personal email around PST storage.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-21T05:49:51+00:00

    Hello Amin No,

    Thank you for your reply,

    Please let me check your answer i will get back to you soon

    I sincerely appreciate your patience and cooperation.   SincerelyEben Ezer Tres | Microsoft Community Moderator

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-20T21:47:08+00:00

    I'm really curious about the answer to your question. I think you're screwed based on what I read from Eben's note. Hoping one day he'll respond.

    Many thanks,

    Amin

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-06-20T14:14:58+00:00

    My primary use of archive files is to make a long history of emails accessible, when needed. I organize my archives by year, opening an archive in Outlook to find old emails, then closing it when I'm done. I do this because I have archive files dating back to 2014 that range in size from 17Gb to 48GB.

    Will Outlook offer a strategy to maintain access to my long history of email data, which totals over 160GB? It's obviously not practical to load that much data.

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