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
    2024-11-14T21:28:30+00:00

    Monica, I also just purchased a new laptop. I’m running windows 11. The solution for me was to go to the Microsoft site and search for Outlook Classic. You need to download Outlook classic not Outlook new and then you can access your PST files. The version of Outlook, which came with Microsoft 365 would not permit you to switch between new and classic. Apparently they’re making it even harder to use Outlook classic

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-14T20:42:28+00:00

    Other alternatives would be to switch to another "fat" client that works with the authentication but you still need something to open or convert a PST file. There are a few out there that will do it but some are real ****.

    You could try the following:

    1. If still possible, open an account in Gmail [or others but assume Gmail in this case as the example] that Outlook 2010 can accept. Copy the contents of the PST to the Gmail account.
    2. Download and install Thunderbird. Create profiles for both Gmail and Hotmail [or whatever]. The PST messages dumped to Gmail will load up. Now you can create an offline folder and dump the Gmail contents into the offline folder.
    3. Once done, you can kill the Gmail profile [and the account if you wish].
    4. Now all the PST content is in the offline folder of Thunderbird.

    A bit crazy. Also under how Thunderbird is in terms of maybe sending it to a different content format.

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  3. Hal Hostetler MVP-Outlook 12,011 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-11-13T19:03:13+00:00

    You can setup Outlook 2013 to run without an email account, look here:

    Use Outlook without an email account - Microsoft Support

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  5. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2024-11-13T18:18:44+00:00

    No it does not. You can still use it to open archived PST files. Just can't use it to access your mailbox anymore.

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