{"id":6238,"date":"2024-05-01T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T08:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esofttools.com\/blog\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2024-05-01T14:28:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T08:58:14","slug":"convert-pst-to-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esofttools.com\/blog\/convert-pst-to-msg\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Convert PST to MSG & save Outlook items as separate files?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Do you use Outlook for email, contact management or other tasks? Do you want to preserve each Outlook item as a separate file? If so, find out the best way to do so in this article. Here we will explain the method to convert PST to MSG files and save each Outlook item in their individual MSG.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

MS Outlook is an application introduced by Microsoft for Windows users. The primary function of this software is to manage email profiles. Users can easily configure their email accounts and use them to share emails. Apart from sharing emails, Outlook also allows users to create and manage contacts, calendars, tasks, journals, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a desktop-based application and supports creating a local copy of the data associated with an Outlook profile. PST and MSG are the file types in which Outlook stores email profile data locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also Read: – How to convert multiple MSG files to PST without Outlook<\/a>?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Outlook PST and MSG File Format- Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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PST and MSG are both data files of Outlook that it uses to store data, but both of them are different from each other: –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PST<\/strong>: – This file type is used by Outlook to store an entire mailbox with multiple folders containing emails, contacts, calendars, and other Outlook profile items. By default, Outlook creates this file and also allows users to manually create a backup in this PST file type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSG<\/strong>: – Apart from PST files, MSG files are another Outlook file that can store Outlook items. However, only one item can be stored in an MSG file. This file type is the best choice for users who want to preserve each outlook items as separate files.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I have been using Outlook since 2010 and all my Outlook profile data is in a PST file. The size of this PST file is increasing day by day. An IT expert suggested that I export some of my important Outlook data to MSG files, and delete those items from the PST file to reduce the problem of large PST file size. I want to do this but I don’t know the method to convert PST to MSG. So please provide a solution.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Method 1: – Convert PST to MSG in MS Outlook<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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