Questions tagged [pst]
PST is a file format used by Microsoft Office to store Outlook data.
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How Can I View Open PST Files In Outlook?
Is it possible to view a list of PST files which have been loaded in to Outlook? Preferably from inside Outlook rather than having to run any kind of script (I'm sure this could be done with ...
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How to find a file lost after a Windows crash?
I have a computer that was running outlook 2010. It crashed. Windows looks to be unrestorable - motherboard update that seems to messed up the boot and many attempts to restore system going no where....
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How to compare the contents of two pst files that check the same email address?
Is it otherwise possible to automate the comparison of two pst files?
Here's my situation... A soon-to-be ex-employee brought his laptop in so that the contents could be copied/backed up (it was a ...
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Associate email account with "Personal Folders" Outlook data file?
In the process of migrating email servers I've run into an interesting problem: In Outlook 2007 you have the default "Personal Folders" item. This contains the email for the account that was ...
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Backing up Outlook files (.pst)
I have scrolled through all the related questions to this problem. In short, I have emails from 2012 that need to be recovered; supposedly I have the back-up .pst file. However, this error reoccurs:
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How can I access an Outlook 2003 PST file without using Outlook?
I have a 450MB PST file (Outlook 2003 backup file) saved from a PC before it crashed.
I would like to break it up into its components i.e.
Save attachments to folders on my PC
Paste text emails into ...
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What is the overhead in storage of e-mails in MS Outlook?
Environment: MS Office LTSC Pro Plus 2021 under Windows 11 Pro 64.
This is a follow-up to my question on StackOverflow: In MS Outlook VBA, how to find hidden data in a MailItem.
I've been studying the ...
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How to bulk convert .pst to individual mails and folder structure?
I want to convert a few .pst files that I have, to individual emails, in a more open/widely accepted format, and also to maintain the hierarchical folder structure.
Are you aware of a free way of ...
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Folder Sync with PST file when switching from POP to IMAP in Outlook 365
I'm using Outlook 365
I had Outlook connected via POP. I wanted to switch to IMAP.
I created a PST file with all my emails.
I then setup Outlook to use IMAP. Works fine.
I then imported my PST file. ...
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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 to import a PST file into Gmail? [closed]
There are multiple questions about this and they all rely on Google Workspace Migration for Microsoft® Outlook and Google Workspace Sync for Microsoft® Outlook® to do all the work.
Unfortunately, ...
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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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outlook pst need to share with diffrent user microsoft outlook
I am on resign and my manager has asked me to share my outlook pst with him on share drive? My only concern can he missue that outlook pst. I mean that from that pst can he login into my outlook ...
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How to permanently remove one pst data file from outlook 2003?
How to permanently remove one pst data file from outlook 2003?
When I try to close the "Pedro Pico.pst" I receive the error message:
"Could not find an object; the operation was not ...
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Outlook export to .pst file: You don't have appropriate permission to perform this operation
When I try to export my e-mails from Outlook into a .pst file, I get the following error:
You don't have appropriate permission to perform this operation.
I have full access permissions to the folder ...
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What is a folder.pst and how can I import or search it
enter image description hereenter image description hereI need to find an important email. I saw it in the past few months and know its there somewhere.
Ive searched outlook and its "searched the ...
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How to install Microsoft Outlook 2007 (yes, the old microsoft outlook) with no .pst file
how are you?.
I need to totally erase any trace from my computer of my actual outlook.pst file to been able to install microsift outlook 2007 again and then create a new outlook.pst where I will store ...
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Does Outlook OST File auto-resize
Good morning,
I want to confirm something about OST files.
I have noted that the OST file size just keep increasing and does not decrease.
Even if I select the time bar of the inbox to be lets say 1 ...
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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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Feeding two accounts into one PST file in Outlook
My old dev PC crashed and I had to get a new box. One problem when reinstalling everything again: I have Office 365 and thus Outlook 2019 locally on my PC. In my previous setup, I had my two e-mail ...
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Import 11GB PST file to Gmail without Outlook
I was upgrading from Microsoft Office 2010 to 2016 last week and the installation failed, with error messages "Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 encountered an error during setup" followed by "...
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Hard Corrupted Outlook PST File
I have a problem with PST file which is corrupted after I moved it to different location. I move 4 PST files - 1 was OK, 1 fixed with SCANPST.EXE and 2 cant be fixed with anything. Both have around ...
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Convert imap files to pst file
I have a lot of ".imap" files (around 1000) from old IceWarp server and I need to open them somehow. I think that the best way is to convert all files to single pst file and open it in ...
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Recover Outlook PST files
I have a 6 GB Outlook file that won't load in Outlook any more. I am not sure what recovery options I have available. I downloaded one recovery tool demo which shows some but not all mail messages.
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Outlook changes timestamp of a *.pst file not listed in its profile
I have an Outlook 2010 profile that has only one Exchange account and the associated *.ost file. It has no *.pst file open (I checked by viewing the "Folders" navigation pane.
Yet every ...
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How to set timezone of Centos to PST timezone?
I'm using Centos, I used following to set timezone
$ ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles localtime
To verify:
$ date
Sat Aug 8 14:04:14 PDT 2020
As you can see, the timezone set is PDT not ...
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How to change the .pst default location in outlook 2013
how can i change the data file location in outlook 2013 for yahoo mail. i have configured the mail account which is working fine. But i already have a PST file in a separate location, and i want my ...
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Does Outlook's "Replace Duplicates" export option affect the source mailbox?
I have not been able to find any good explanations of which of the following options to choose when exporting a full email account to a .pst backup (that would eventually be loaded as a data file on a ...
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Outlook PST file / error / <We didn't find anything to show here>
Just used the export feature of MS Outlook 2016 to backup my emails.
Created a PST file and dragged items into the data file.
The file has a nice size (+120 MB).
I closed down MS Outlook and re-...
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How to set outlook PST read-only / set quota
Is there any way to 'lock' Outlook pst file?
My Users have hughe PSTs Id like to lock all historical files, backup and force users to create new once
In past it was enough to set R/O attribute - now ...
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Use Outlook PST placed on NAS on 2 Outlook Clients
Problem: I need a shared Calendar on both PCs.
Idea: Create a new Outlook datafile and place it on a network drive. Now I have two PCs, add the datafile on both in Outlook. When I add a new Event on ...
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How to base new email-less Outlook profile on old *.pst file?
I bought and installed Outlook 2019 to use as my Personal Information Manager (PIM) without putting the information in the cloud. This is how I used Outlook 2007 and 2010. One account acted as an ...
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Outlook not searching emails after .pst was lost and re-added
One of my users had a network error and when she opened Outlook it made a new .pst file for her. The normal one is on a network share which which was easy to fix but now she cannot search emails ...
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Why does the Outlook PST repair tool always report that many errors?
I routinely run the Outlook PST repair tool (scanpst.exe) on my .pst file every few month. I like to make sure that my mails are not becoming corrupted slowly over time.
I never noticed any data loss....
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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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PST File Same Size After Archiving
After archiving about half the messages in Microsoft Outlook 2003, the main PST file has not changed in size. Isn't the point of archiving to keep the size of the PST file under control?
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Run a command on all the .pst files of a folder in Cygwin
I have several .pst mailbox in a folder. I would like to use readpst to extract them and have the .msg they contain in a folder.
So let's say 1.pst, 2.pst ... 15.pst. (the actual names are actually a ...
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How can I configure IMAP email accounts in Outlook with just a PST file?
I thought that was impossible, but I am mantaining a family of PCs from an enterprise, and they are configured as IMAP with only PST files.
PCs are Windows 7/8 with Outlook 2010. Each PC has two ...
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How can I export a .pst file that includes all the "Click here to view more on Microsoft Exchange" items?
I'm trying to export a folder with subfolders in Outlook, but there are a bunch of emails I want to export that are only on MS Exchange. For example:
How can I download all of these into Outlook so ...
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Cannot open or add data file (PST) in Outlook 2010
Very strange issue here. Win 7 64-bit running Office 2010 all updates installed. I am attempting to open a PST archive file and it does not work.
If I go to File -> Open -> Outlook Data File, ...
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How do you merge 2 outlook archives together?
I have 2 outlook archives (.pst files) that I wish to merge together.
How do I do that?
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Have PST Sub-Folders Show In Favorites
I created a PST folder called Co-Workers and the main folder is called Co-Workers where within this folder I have roughly 20 sub-folders with the names of each of my co-workers.
I want to be able to ...
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Convert .OST to .PST
I have a .OST file that needs converted to .PST. Exchange server that this file came from has been dbanned.
This post about OST & PST viewers seems promising, to view the files... but it states ...
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Mysterous PST corruption
This is a tough one, am I allowed to offer beers for anyone who figures this out? If you are a computer repair enthusiast, this might be a fun one for you.
So I have a client who I do basic computer ...
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Shrinking Outlook pst file
My wife recently upgraded to Windows 10. Not super fast, and think it is time for a fresh install. Looking for files to save and came across a 5+ GB PST file. Had her delete about 80% of them, and ...
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Does the scanpst.exe version have to match the Outlook version?
Do you know if there are any problems using a scanpst.exe from a different (newer) Outlook version with a *.pst from a (older) Outlook?
Example:
If I use the scanpst.exe from Outlook 2016 to repair ...
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Automatically create a copy of email in pst
In Outlook, emails are manually moved to different folders in inbox (server itself). Is it possible to create a rule to automatically create a copy of email in pst, when the mail is moved manually to ...
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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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Importing MBOX file in Outlook 2010 (or converting to PST)
I exported my e-mails from an old Gmail account using Google Takeout. The exported e-mails are now in an MBOX file. I somehow need to import this into MS Outlook 2010. Of course, it's also fine to ...
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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 auto-...