PST is a file format used by Microsoft Office to store Outlook data.

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How to create a rule in Outlook 2010 to move all emails from an IMAP sent folder to local sent folder

How can I create a rule in Outlook 2010 to move all emails from an IMAP sent folder to a local sent folder? So far the closest I've been able to get is to move all emails from the IMAP inbox to the ...
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Outlook 2010, will multiple PSTs cause problems

At the company where I work, the owners use POP/SMTP in Outlook to be able to keep an active multi-year history of emailed conversations. This history cannot be archived by date so they have been ...
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Why are all my Outlook autocomplete email addresses suddenly missing?

I have exported all the data (emails, calendar, contacts etc.) from one Outlook PST file into a new PST file, and am now using this new file instead. Everything is working well, except now my ...
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What is the difference between manually copying emails/ folders from one PST file to another within Outlook, vs. using the “Export” option?

What is the difference between simply copying the contents from one Outlook PST file to another within Outlook, and using the "Export" tool in Outlook to do this? Does one yield better results than ...
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Presorting Email into separate pst files to keep both sent and received in the same exported pst

A few years back when researching this problem I ran across a program that came close to being a perfect solution. It would not work for what I needed but I showed me some possibilities that I would ...
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Is there a template that can be used when entering multiple email accounts in Outlook 2010

Does Outlook 2010 have any kind of template that can be used to create a whole office full of email accounts where the only difference is the name and password? Every other setting is the same and ...
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Archived emails vanishing (Outlook 2010)

I have just archived an Outlook 2003 PST file into what I believe was an Outlook 2003 PST archive. Archiving was configured to move everything older than 30 days into the archive PST file, however I ...
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How can I compact Outlook 2003 PST files by deleting message body and attachment but preserving headers?

I have already set Outlook 2003 to download only message headers, but when I open it, full messages still need to be downloaded and be stored in PST file, thus making the PST file grow by the day. Is ...
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Why is everything in my PST file showing up as a “draft”?

I'm trying to move a client's email from Gmail to Google Apps Mail. Believe it or not, this is a very tedious process that doesn't have any good way from Google to do it. This client has over 91,000 ...
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How do I copy emails out of corrupted pst file?

I accidentally overwrote a pst file. Pst file records show no files in them; and no ability to recover from within outlook. I can find the emails by doing searches in windows. But scan pst.exe, ...
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Best way to change an iPhone from a POP/SMTP account to a Hosted Exchange Server account and keep everything [closed]

I am looking for the best way to backup and store everything in an iPhone/iPad and also a BlackBerry in such a way that I can move the emails from POP/SMTP at one Domain into the same folders in a ...
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Forgot my .pst password [duplicate]

I have a .pst file which contains some of my old emails. When attempting to load the the pst file outlook is asking me for a password. Is there a way I can recover my .pst emails ? thanks in advance
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Does copying/moving emails in Outlook (2003) from one PST to another corrupt the new PST file?

Someone at work in the IT department is insistent that "it's bad practice to copy/move emails from one .PST file in Outlook into another, and this generally leads to corruption of the new PST file.". ...
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In outlook, is it better to have one large outlook data file or multiple small ones [closed]

Every few years I create a new Outlook data file for my person info. Most of these files are around 300MB. I wanted to see if this actually makes sense in terms of efficiency, etc. In outlook, is ...
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How to merge duplicate contact records in a .pst

Here's my problem: Once I merge my two .pst files I will have one file with a large number of contact records that are 'duplicates' in the sense that the records share the same contact name field, but ...
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Make Outlook 2013 reuse existing .pst file

I had Outlook 2010 fetch my Gmail over IMAP into my .pst file. I upgraded to Office 2013 and Outlook 2013 decides to import the email settings (like username, server and password) just fine - but ...
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Outlook's Personal Folders loading continually

My inbox was reported as full by the ISP. I copied all the messages from the inbox and pasted them into a Personal Folders folder after I had created one (Question number one: Why was it missing?) ...
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Export pst files and index

Is there a way to export PST files into a somewhat "open" format, and then use some sort of freeware to index the emails and then search upon the emails in a fast manner? Basically, I have about 4 ...
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How do I convert my Outlook Data File (97-2002 format) toward 2003 and later format?

I have Microsoft Outlook 2010, but I still using a very old PST file in the format 97-2002. The main limitation I have is the file size capacity limited to 2GB. I would like to convert this PST file ...
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Error during export .pst file in outlook 2007

On my old PC I use Outlook 2007. On my new PC I use Outlook 2010. I want to move all my email folders and emails to my new computer. I think the only way to do this is by export my files to a .PST ...
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Individual pst files for individual outlook 2010 folders

I was wondering if it is possible for the following scenario: Suppose I have 5 folders in my Microsoft Outlook 2010. Currently, there are 1 pst file that contain the 5 folders. Each folders contain ...
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Google Apps Sync bloated PST file to 14GB

Back story: I have Outlook connected to my Google Apps email and noticed that some mail never got migrated from my original PST file. I found some VBA code online that compares mail in different PST ...
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What's the encoding in which Outlook keeps data in a pst file?

I would like to search a damaged pst file for a certain string in order to recover log-in credentials to a website.
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I need access to an oversized PST file but the pst2gb.exe tool is no longer available and compact won't work [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: I need to gain access to an Outlook PST file that grew over 2gb I had to try and make the title specific so that this question wouldn't get closed as a duplicate of ...
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I need to gain access to an Outlook PST file that grew over 2gb [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Outlook 2007: “The set of folders cannot be opened” PST has reached its maximum size Edit: This is not a duplicate. The other question suggests using ...
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Outlook, POP and PST handling

Essentially I have a client who is on hosted exchange and have decided to use POP3 to download the mail (I don't know why they don't use .OST's but anyway), they rebuilt the machine and backed up ...
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Open Office PST on a Mac (Mac:Office)

I have a 5Gig Outlook PST file which I want to use on my Mac with Mac::Office but I don't want to import it into Outlook on the mac, I just want to read it. If I import it, it corrupts the outlook db ...
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How to backup Outlook PSTs into smaller manageable files?

My client has about 7 - 10 computers that backup to their local server every week or so. Now they also want that data backed up offsite, the only problem is each of those computers have a separate PST ...
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Outlook 2010 Performance issues with big .pst file?

I'm currently running outlook 2010 and I have a .pst file of about 25 gigs in size. My email is currently being imported via POP3 so I am not running any IMAP or keeping a copy of email onto the ...
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Microsoft Outlook: Export list of currently opened PST files

At my current workplace we are upgrading various users from XP to Windows 7. Frequently the users have anywhere from 10 to 30 or so .pst files opened within their installation of Microsoft Outlook ...
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Outlook 2010 - Export of an Exchange OST to PST creates files with different sizes each time

This is a most weird issue. I have a couple of exchange OST mailboxes, and just for security, I am exporting them using File / Import / Export to a file / Export to PST file. If I run the export ...
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Migrating from Office 2007 to 2010

What is the correct way to migrate Office 2007 PST from one machine to a fresh installation with Office 2010? Several articles around the web seem to indicate that merely copying the Outlook.pst file ...
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How can I import archive.pst on flash drive into gmail?

I have archived Outlook 2003 messages on a flash drive, archive.pst. I no longer have access to a computer with any version of Outlook. I need to get those messages into a basic gmail account. Is that ...
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Split Outlook PST files

I have large pst files which I need to split into smaller pst files. Is this something that can be done? Where the split pst files remain usable in outlook.
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import pst/ost file in os x mail

I've just moved from Windows to OS X. I have lots of emails stored in Outlook pst and ost format. How can I import this mails into the Mac Mail App? The mails should be stored localy on the Mac. I ...
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export emails from PST file in Outlook 2010 to Thunderbird

I will start by describing the problem.. I had an email account configured in Outlook 2010 connected to an Exchange server. I backed up my emails locally into a PST file. (now I no longer have access ...
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.pst displays emails from 2008-2009 only

I recently copied a couple .pst files to a hard disk for backup purposes. When I tried to get them back in another computer, Outlook 2007 only shows emails from 2008 and 2009, even it if has emails ...
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How can I open Outlook PST files read-only in Outlook 2010

Running Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 I have two quite large outlook files each about 700MB each. I need regularly to access the emails in them, they are archives from recent years. However each time I ...
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Multiple .pst files for a single email

When I go to the location where my outlook .pst files are stored (C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook) I constantly seem to have multiples of my email accounts. Unfortunately, it's not ...
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How converting or importing outlook PST from old format to new unicode format

I have an outlook 2002 PST file. This old format has problems like a 2 GB size limit. I wanted to convert to a more modern PST format (unicode) which doesn't have this issue. MS's site says there's ...
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How can I delete a calendar from a PST that is no longer accessible in Outlook 2010?

I have a user that loaded a PST into Outlook 2010. The PST file had several calendars, which were loaded to the user's calendars. He has since deleted the PST file as he no longer needed access to it. ...
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How do I migrate data from Outlook 2007 to Thunderbird?

I'm trying to migrate from Outlook 2007 to Thunderbird 7, and I'm stuck with moving my messages/folders. What I'm supposed to do is: In Thunderbird, Tools → Import, and choose Outlook (2007), but it ...
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If I change Windows admin user password, then I can't login to Outlook, why?

I am seeing this strange behaviour with Windows 7 and Outlook 2010. If I change the password of User1 (Admin user), login, and start Outlook, it asks for the pasword. It keeps saying "password ...
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Outlook 2007: “The set of folders cannot be opened” PST has reached its maximum size

I have outlook 2007. There's a PST file that Outlook is now refusing to open. When I click on it, it says The set of folders cannot be opened. XXXXX.pst has reached its maximum size... ...
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Extract messages from OST/PST files?

The company I work for is in the middle of a legal dispute. As part of the dispute we have been asked to provide all emails SENT TO or RECEIVED from a list of 141 individuals during a 4 month time ...
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Getting an Oulook PST file error

Having an issue with Microsoft Outlook caused by a 1.9-gig Outlook PST file. Is their a way to allow the file to be bigger or any other options to prevent this error?
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How to copy information from 1 .PST file to another

I have been using an Outlook Data file for a long time now and have many calendar events, tasks, notes, and contacts. I recently got an exchange account set up and would like to know if there is a way ...
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Moving Outlook 2010 PST files to a new location

I am trying to move my PST files for Outlook 2010 between folders. From what I have read all I have to do is close Outlook, go to the folders and move the file over. Then, when I restart Outlook, I ...
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Where are Microsoft OutLook mailboxes stored in Windows XP?

I want to back up the OutLook mailboxes from one system, then restore them to a different one. I am using MS-OutLook 2007 in Windows XP, but I am unable to find *.PST files in the usual location: ...
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What's the significance of this Google Apps error code '0x8004010B'?

There seems to be a lack of good information around this particular Google Apps error code. Has anyone found common environmental information that causes this error? Any kind of solution? ...

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