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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?
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Hey Eben-Ezer, so, practically, show me how to import .pst files, that in my outlook (new) I haven't got this option, that should be listed between Offline (yellow highlighted) and start-up (red highlighted), thanks
Read the earlier posts. You can go to the Microsoft website and download “classic outlook“.
What version of Classic Outlook do you have? I'm running the latest M365 version, and it runs just fine on Windows 11.
Location of PST file
drive:\Users<username>\Documents\Outlook Files
If your version of Outlook/Office goes back quite a few years [at least 2013 and before], you may not be able to install Outlook/Office.
Ed
i just bought a new DELL laptop with Windows 11 and new outlook and there is no way that I can find to move my old outlook pst file from my old laptop. some MS admin in this thread claims you can do it by switching to "classic outlook" but when I try that I get a message saying you can't use classic outlook on a new pc. sheesh!