How do I open PST files?

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I backed up my personal folders in Outlook and saved them to a zip. Now I want to open them on another computer. what do I use to open the pst files and be able to use them? When I tried Windows I just got all the little boxes as characters
thanks
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The wonderful thing about standardisation in Windows is that you can figure
your way around most applications if you know just one.

So, if you want to open a file in Word, you go to FILE, OPEN
If you want to open a file in Excel, you go to FILE OPEN
If you want to open a file in Access, you go to FILE OPEN

......and....much to universal suprise, if you want to open a file in
Outlook, you go to.......FILE OPEN.



tchamp said:
I backed up my personal folders in Outlook and saved them to a zip. Now I
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want to open them on another computer. what do I use to open the pst
files and be able to use them? When I tried Windows I just got all the
little boxes as characters.
 
tchamp said:
I backed up my personal folders in Outlook and saved them to a zip.
Now I want to open them on another computer. what do I use to open
the pst files and be able to use them? When I tried Windows I just
got all the little boxes as characters. thanks,
T
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PST files have a proprietary format that Outlook understands. Use the
client that created the file.

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UNiversal surprised looK !
Why thank you for that serving of sarcasm. Actually, if you noticed, I didn't know to go to Outlook to open the file, I was trying to open it in Windows. So, just say, you can't do that, go to Outlook and open the file. See how easy it is to be civil
Thanks though, now I will try that and if it doesn't work, I'll be back
T
 
pst is a personal storage for you Outlook Mail messages. The only thing that can open it that is useful is Outlook. So if you take your pst's to another machine that machine must have a compatible Outlook version AND the file must be Read\Write at the machine. This is one reason why you cannot access a pst on a CD. The CD must be writable as you access it.
 
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