Star Microsoft To Open up Outlook .pst Format
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th Oct 2009 19:28 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Microsoft Anyone who has ever dealt with Microsoft Outlook will know the .pst file format - it's the binary, undocumented file in which all data from Outlook is stored - emails, contacts, calendar, you name it, it's in there. Microsoft has announced that it will release detailed technical documentation on the Outlook .pst data format.
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RE: IMAP
by phoenix on Tue 27th Oct 2009 01:20 UTC in reply to "IMAP"
phoenix
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2005-07-11

PST, however, mostly fulfilled its promise. Older versions of Outlook/PST suffered from a 2 GB limit, which caused some "silent" data loss. Newer versions do much better.


"Newer" versions are not .pst files. They are .ost, a completely different format.

This is no different from opening the Word 95 .doc format ... considering the newer versions are nothing like it.

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RE[2]: IMAP
by bakkus on Tue 27th Oct 2009 08:24 in reply to "RE: IMAP"
bakkus Member since:
2009-10-27

I'm afraid you are mistaken.

Outlook uses PST, and PST files created by Outlook 2003 SP2 and up support sizes over 2gb.

OST files are "offline pst files" created by outlook if you enable "Cached Exchange mode" when connecting to an Exchange mail server.

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