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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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Problem is that "old" Outlook is not available - it will not accept my password. When I queried this with Microsoft, I was advised to move to "new" Outlook! So I'm stuck between the old one that doesn't work and the new one that isn't fully operational. What a mess!
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...
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? -
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.
- 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.- 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.