Archiving is never a good idea.

September 9, 2009 11:21 AM

I have my email set up in Outlook 2007. I archived my old emails, which turned them into a .pst file which I cannot, for the life of me, get to open in any format I can read. Help!
posted by elder18 to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

You have to open the pst via Outlook. Go to file -> data file management -> add -> navigate to location of .pst -> close. It should then appear at the bottom of the left panel as a navigable container with your email in it...

The pst is basically a container that you dump all your mail, calendar, contacts into so it can't be read as if it were an individual email file.
posted by zennoshinjou at 11:27 AM on September 9, 2009

Outlook 2007 opens PST files.

As far as I know there are no open source or free tools that will recover email from an Outlook 2007 PST.

I've used RecoverMyEmail in the past if Outlook can't open a PST.
posted by gregr at 11:29 AM on September 9, 2009

If what you meant was that you tried to use outlook to open it and it was all screwed up, there's a tool you can use to fix that.
posted by I_pity_the_fool at 3:04 PM on September 9, 2009