Have you ditched the old version of Outlook and started newer versions of Outlook which you find difficult to open PST files or Outlook 2007 or 2003 on Outlook 2016 ?
A situation where your Outlook is updated to new versions and in excitement many of you (less computer user)try not to synchronizes to your old Outlook account but instead created a new one. This creates a problem where you cannot access or read your old emails, contacts or other data files in form of PST files. Kind of confusion is created here. When you install a new version of Outlook on your computer system, you can add your old PST file on the new Outlook by adding email, contacts, and calendar items from one email account to another like old Outlook account, Gmail account, OST Outlook files if your shifting to PST format or any other version of Outlook if unable to access PST files and etc.
When is it needed to import PST file to Outlook?
PST files are mostly created when user make a backup of data files to an Outlook PST file. Let see when anyone needs to import a PST file to Outlook
When the user wants to Add PST files from one email account to another email account like one user has two accounts on outlook and he or she wants to import PST files from one of his or hers to another.
Moving from PC to PC If you're moving your email from one computer to Outlook on it to another computer with Outlook on it.
If the user wants to retrieve some of his or her emails or contacts from a .pst file, open the .pst file and then drag and drop the emails to current Outlook folders.
Is there a Manual way to add PST to Outlook and are issues while importing PST file in Outlook?
Yes, there is a manual way to add PST file to Outlook profile but there are various drawbacks too. Like, using the manual way, users can import PST only one file at a time to their MS Outlook profile, the batch operation cannot be performed. There are no of missteps performed by the user which are ignored while importing PST file to Outlook, consequences errors and problem while accessing PST file when already imported to Outlook.
Problems like:
- Emails were imported but not contacts or calendar items. How to fix this?
- Restored contacts from the backup .pst. Are the restored contacts in the Outlook .ost file or the re-dated .pst file?
- PST file is imported but not subfolders.
*The source and destination folders for this operation cannot be the same "error!" - You do not have permission to access the file "error!"
Fix such error and problem after importing PST files to Outlook
How to add and import PST files to Outlook without any Problem?
To Avoid manual process and cutting out error from your life after you import PST files to Outlook, I suggest go for Add Outlook PST that totally supports both the versions of Outlook PST files i.e. ANSI PST and UNICODE PST created by all the version of MS Outlook including 2010, 2013 and the latest version Outlook 2016. Add Outlook PST software makes the work simpler and easier with high-end interactive interface easy-to-use GUI targeted for both novice and computer professionals. Embedded with the advanced features, to quickly perform addition of multiple PST files for saving the user’s time and deleting the manual process to add PST files to Outlook.