Non-Outlook access to old O2k .pst

[Puddin' Man]

I have about 670 mb of old messages in the Outlook 2000 .pst files on my 'old' pc.

Cannot afford to license Outlook on my 'new' pc.

I can/will put the O2k files on the 'new' pc, which runs Win7 HP-64 OEM.
How can I access them there if/when I need to dig an old Email out?

Any/all help/suggestions much appreciated.

Puddin'

"Law Without Equity Is No Law At All. It Is A Form Of Jungle Rule."

 

[Gordon]

I have about 670 mb of old messages in the Outlook 2000 .pst files on my
'old' pc.

Cannot afford to license Outlook on my 'new' pc.

I can/will put the O2k files on the 'new' pc, which runs Win7 HP-64 OEM.
How can I access them there if/when I need to dig an old Email out?

Any/all help/suggestions much appreciated.

On the old PC, import your Outlook Mail either into OE or Windows Mail
(depending on your version of Windows) or Thunderbird, then transfer the
resultant files to either Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird on the new.
HTH

 

[Puddin' Man]

On the old PC, import your Outlook Mail either into OE or Windows Mail
(depending on your version of Windows) or Thunderbird, then transfer the
resultant files to either Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird on the new.
HTH

The old pc is W2k sp4 (sorry I didn't mention).

So, I should be able to install Thunderbird on W2k, import all (?)
my Outlook 2000 stuff, copy the W2k Tbird files (NTFS) to the
Win7 system, install Win7 Thunderbird, and get full access?

Thanks,
P

"Law Without Equity Is No Law At All. It Is A Form Of Jungle Rule."

 

[Gordon]

So, I should be able to install Thunderbird on W2k, import all (?)
my Outlook 2000 stuff, copy the W2k Tbird files (NTFS) to the
Win7 system, install Win7 Thunderbird, and get full access?

Yep!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I'd export to HTML or PDF format instead of putting it into another mail
client. I don't know of any free tools - but Acrobat's package feature
creates nice PDF packages and it has a free trial.

 

[Puddin' Man]

I'd export to HTML or PDF format instead of putting it into another mail
client. I don't know of any free tools - but Acrobat's package feature
creates nice PDF packages and it has a free trial.

Thanks to both Diane and Gordon.

I'm not doing badly with Tbird. Not really fond of either HTML
or PDF. And Tbird -will- be my designated Email client with
Win7. Mozilla has come a long, long way in the last 15 years
or so.

Cheers,
P

"Law Without Equity Is No Law At All. It Is A Form Of Jungle Rule."

 

[Gordon]

I'd export to HTML or PDF format instead of putting it into another mail
client.

Thunderbird mail boxes are in fact text files - you can read them with a
text editor...

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Are the messages stored individually like they are in Live Mail (also
readable in notepad) or in one huge text file like Outlook's Save as... text
to save as selection of messages? An archive that is not dependant on a mail
client and uses a universal format is better.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/
OutlookForums http://www.outlookforums.com

 

[Gordon]

Are the messages stored individually like they are in Live Mail (also
readable in notepad) or in one huge text file like Outlook's Save as...
text to save as selection of messages? An archive that is not dependant on
a mail client and uses a universal format is better.

Each mail folder in TBird is one text (MBox) file...

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

So if you have a 1 GB folder, you need to open it and search?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/
OutlookForums http://www.outlookforums.com

 

[Gordon]

So if you have a 1 GB folder, you need to open it and search?

If you don't have TBird, yes....