Organizing Historical E-mail

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Posted by David Garner
Jul 20, 2020 at 07:58 PM

I’d also like to locate all the old e-mail from my pile of hard drives. I’ve used Outlook for a lot of years. Each time I got a new machine, I started over, but the historical e-mail is still on the old hard drives. I’d like to find it and stitch it back together in one place. I assume that I need to locate the .pst files and then use Outlook to somehow pull the data together?

Any experience with doing something like this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Posted by Franz Grieser
Jul 21, 2020 at 07:15 AM

David Garner wrote:
>I’d also like to locate all the old e-mail from my pile of hard drives.
>I’ve used Outlook for a lot of years. Each time I got a new machine, I
>started over, but the historical e-mail is still on the old hard drives.
> I’d like to find it and stitch it back together in one place. I assume
>that I need to locate the .pst files and then use Outlook to somehow
>pull the data together?
> >Any experience with doing something like this would be appreciated.
> >Thanks.

You can open archived PST or OST files in Outlook (“File - Open”). They will appear at the bottom of the left-hand pane.
And you can drag&drop individual emails, selected emails or complete folders from one PST/OST file to another (to copy or move them).

I would not have too many PST files open at the same time, as this slows Outlook down.
That depends on your hardware: On my Windows machine that has 8 GByte RAM, 6 GByte of Outlook data start to slow Outlook down when I have a few other heavy-weight apps such as Firefox open.

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