Do you agree that your emails are very important? If one fine day, I should tell you that you will get to have no access to these emails anymore… how will you feel? Miserable?
And should I tell you that to get these emails back you may to spend around US$49.90 or spend your time downloading a big file of 500Mb application file – will you be pissed off?
If you are nodding your head away and you also happen to be using Microsoft Outlook, then you may want to pay attention to what I have to say about backing up your precious emails with it especially if you do not wish to spend US$50 or time to download…
What Happened When Dexter Did His Backup Of Emails On His Microsoft Outlook?
I was using Microsoft Outlook in the office and have decided to do a backup of these emails. These emails contained a lot of important personal information. After which, I would like to transfer these to my Outlook Express / Mozilla Thunderbird in my home computer.
And the wonderful thing about the whole event will be that I will not have access to Microsoft Outlook after the backing up. I thought the Import function on both software will serve me well enough. I did not check on the Internet if this will pose any serious issue in the future.
The backup file created by Microsoft Outlook is a .PST file.
The Agony Of Importing The .PST File To Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird and Gmail
The agony started when I decided to import this .PST file to my home computer. I do not have a copy of Microsoft Outlook as well. I only have Windows Mail (also known as Outlook Express) in Windows Vista and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Guess what…
The Import Function existed on both softwares will only work when there’s a copy of Microsoft Outlook installed as well.
Gmail does not allow you to import any files and will only allow when you have done up a direct upload to it using one of the functions within Microsoft Outlook.
Fine… I will find a solution online then…
The Search For A Solution Online
The search began with a few sites telling me that this .PST file extension is one way that Microsoft uses to protect their products. I should have known this earlier!
There are a few free solutions provided – to download a ThunderBird Plugin and a Gmail Uploader. These solutions existed back in 2007 and 2008.
Just when there’s a glimpse of hope there and there. At the end of downloading and installing, both solutions can not work at all because they are all outdated.
The only free solution available is that I have to download the latest Trial Version of Office 2010 which is at 585MB. And there’s no direct download from Microsoft and I have to get it from an external site. Was I successful? Nope. The downloading failed me a few times that I decided to give up!
Paid solutions? Okay… There are two that will work – PST Walker and Recovery Toolbox. And they allow you to download a trial copy only to tease you with their working functions – first 5 – 10 emails being readable and to get the rest, you have to buy at around US$50.
My Agony Will Be Your Precious Lesson
This is a painful experience for me. And there’s indeed a proper way of converting your backup on Microsoft Outlook so that it will be compatible with Outlook Express so if you are doing it, please learn how to do so by doing a proper search online.
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