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Question

Are there any free offline .OST to .PST converters?

Aug 20, 2015 9:38AM PDT

Can anyone suggest me a truly freeware software to convert an offline OST file to PST format for MS Outlook 2010. All the so called freeware listing in Google are not truly freeware and are feature limited until I upgrade to a paid version, and I just need this for one time and therefore not ready to pay $99. I want to read the OST and just save it to a Outlook 2010 PST format.

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The replies to date have been spammers.
Aug 20, 2015 10:13AM PDT

It's far easier to just setup your Outlook to use a PST then connect up and Outlook will create a new PST.

There's so much spam on this that it's all about talking you to part with the cash.

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Are there any free offline .OST to .PST converters?
Aug 28, 2015 7:02AM PDT

You cannot convert a OST file to a PST directly, There is security in place that ties the Exchange mailbox,OST file and MAPI profile together. That means that you need the be loged in with the original MAPI profile in order to open the OST file, if you can do that you can simply export or copy all data to a PST file.