The MS Outlook application saves all the information in the PST file extension. But in most of the cases, the users don’t have MS Outlook installed with them. And in some scenarios, PST files also get corrupted. So, opening and viewing the PST file in this case is not at all possible. Because only Outlook application support PST files. Here comes the major question, How to view contents of PST file?
In this blog, we are going to discuss multiple solutions to view contents of PST file. Go through this blog to get different solutions to effortlessly view PST files.
Automated Approach to View Contents of PST File
The SYSDaddy PST viewer tool is one of the most popular utilities to preview all the emails with all the attachments securely. Using this tool the user can explore and scan the corrupted PST file as well. And many advanced features are also provided by the tool which we will discuss in this blog. But, before discussing the features, let’s have a look at the working guide of the PST file viewer software.
Step 1- First step is to download and run the professional tool on your device
Step 2 – Now add the PST files using the “Add Files” option
Step 3 – Search for the PST file and hit the “Open” button
Step 4 – Click the “Advance Scan” checkbox to view a highly corrupted file
Step 5 – Here, you can view the email in multiple viewing modes like properties view, hex view, RTF view, HTML view and many more.
Step 6 – As per your convenience, select the viewing modes as horizontal or vertical to read PST files
Prominent Features of PST Viewer Tool
Here, we are going to discuss the advantages of the automated tool:-
- Supports to preview the calendars, tasks, emails, contacts etc. in no time
- Works with PST file of Microsoft Outlook 2019 and all the previous versions
- User can view the attachments also
- Supports to zoom in, zoom out and rotate an attachment file
- Provides dual scanning modes- Advance and Quick scan
- Gives multiple previewing modes
- Tool does not have any file size restriction
- Installation of MS Outlook Application not required
- Users can filter emails using attributes such as subject, to, received etc.
- Supports to view data from damaged PST files as well.
Manually View Contents of PST File
In this section of the blog, we are going to discuss the different ways to read PST files using a manual approach. The professional approach is the best to explore and read PST files but if you want to go for the free method then you can try these manual techniques. But, these approaches don’t provide any guarantee to view contents of PST file in a safe way. That’s why we suggest our users to use the automated tool.
Use Google GAMMO Tool
Follow the given steps to view contents of PST file:-
- Firstly, download the Google GAMMO software and open it.
- Add your Gmail id address and hit the “Continue” button.
- Here, the software will launch the selected browser and after that, you need to sign-in.
- Click on the “Allow” button to approve the permissions.
- Now, select the PST files or Outlook profile and hit the migrate all button or migrate only new data as per your requirement.
- Click on the “Next” button.
- After this, choose the data which you want to transfer to Gmail and hit the “Migrate” button.
- At last, when it’s done you can open the Gmail account and access the PST files.
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Read PST Files in TXT Format
Go through the process mentioned below to read PST file:-
- Open the MS Outlook Application.
- Browse and choose the email which you want to view in TXT file format.
- Now, go to the “File” option at the top of the screen.
- After this, hit the “Save As” button from the menu bar.
- Select the TXT file extension.
- Here, the selected emails are now saved in the TXT file extension.
Note: Users can send this TXT file to a person who doesn’t have Outlook installed in his system.
Convert PST Files in HTML File Format
- Firstly, go to the MS Outlook application and open it.
- Search and select the email which you want to open in HTML file format.
- Click the “File” button at the top left corner of the screen.
- Now, click on the “Save As” option from the menu tab.
- After that, choose the HTML file format.
- Finally, all the selective data will be saved in HTML file extension.
These are the steps to view contents of PST file.
Final Thoughts
In this blog, we have described multiple techniques to view contents of PST file. Users can go with the manual as well as professional software. But the manual procedure does not give any surety to safely view the PST files. But on the other hand, the PST viewer software can easily help you to view PST files in no time.