{"id":1942,"date":"2009-11-12T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2009-11-12T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T18:29:11","slug":"how-do-i-create-a-pst-on-the-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/how-do-i-create-a-pst-on-the-macintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I create a PST on the Macintosh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, but you can&#8217;t. \u00c2\u00a0At least not with a Microsoft Product&#8230; Unless your running Windows via a Virtual Machine, or Boot camp, there is no Microsoft Products on the Mac that will product a PST.<\/p>\n<p>PST&#8217;s are a product of Outlook, or the Exchange server. \u00c2\u00a0The file format is actually used for quite a few files&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal Storage Table [File] (.PST)<\/li>\n<li>Personal Folder File (.PFF)<\/li>\n<li>Off-Line Storage Table (.ost)<\/li>\n<li>Off-Line Folder File (.off)<\/li>\n<li>Personal Address Book (.pab)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The file format has been reversed engineered, and through the libpst project, it can be read on other platforms than Windows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, PST files are not highly recommended, as they are easily corrupted, and damaged. \u00c2\u00a0This corruption is more likely, when the file gets closer to the maximum file size.<\/p>\n<p>Outlook 2002, and earlier had a maximum file size of 2 GB. \u00c2\u00a0Outlook 2003, extended this filesize up to 20 Gb.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=9B95CFE2-EA2B-4088-AF2C-2FD497E2A6F8&amp;displaylang=en\">PST Import Tool for Entourage<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0This tool has to be one of the best kept secrets of Microsoft, since I rarely hear about a software package that has been in existance since 11\/30\/2005.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Office XP (aka Office 2002) PSTs can not be used with the MS PST Import Tool.<\/li>\n<li>Although the documentation makes specific reference to Entourage 2004, the PST Import Tool can be used with versions of Entourage released after Entourage 2004, such as Entourage 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Please note, I have seen very mixed results with this import tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A commercial package called &#8220;Outlook -&gt; Entourage&#8221;, claims to transfer your email, address book, contacts, and calendars for $14.95.  I haven&#8217;t tried it, but I have seen some comments about it&#8230;  They&#8217;ve been generally positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, but you can&#8217;t. \u00c2\u00a0At least not with a Microsoft Product&#8230; Unless your running Windows via a Virtual Machine, or Boot camp, there is no Microsoft Products on the Mac that will product a PST. PST&#8217;s are a product of Outlook, or the Exchange server. \u00c2\u00a0The file format is actually used for quite a few <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/how-do-i-create-a-pst-on-the-macintosh\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,25,11],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->