After installing PST Walker, locate a Microsoft Outlook .pst or
Microsoft Exchange .ost file on the hard drive of your PC.
You have two options when opening a file: "Like Microsoft Outlook" and "Extensive Scan".
The extensive scan option will allow you to recover data from a damaged or a corrupted file
but takes longer to load depending on file size. Try both options and compare.
When the .pst file opens, you'll think you're looking at your email program!
All of your contact information, email files and folder, and calendar information is present.
If you want to view several emails at once in separate windows, select several messages and
click "Selected Items" from the View tab on the menu. Numerous messages can be selected using
the standard ctrl-left click and shift-left click commands.
PST Walker also lets you save any attachments that are on your emails.
Select the email of your choice that has an attachment you wish to save,
and select "Save Attachments" from the "File" menu button. Attachments can be
opened by double-click as well.
Having all of your email available isn't really worthwhile if you can't find
what you want. Fortunately, PST Walker has a great search function.
Input the search query you want in the search box and click "Enter".
In the example used below, "March", was used in the search field.
After the search is performed, only matching entries are displayed.
Click "x" to clear the search results and show the contents of the entire folder.
To enable advanced search select "Enable boolean search" under "Tools->Search Options...". Boolean search is a type of search allowing you to broaden, limit, and define your search.
Examples:
Using AND narows a search by combining terms; it will retrieve emails
that use both the search terms you specify, as in this example:
Using OR broadens a search to include results that contain either of the words you type in.
Using NOT will narrow a search by excluding certain search terms.
You can always combine multiple search strategies to focus your search to ensure that you find just the emails you want. Here are some examples of more complex searches.
With "Bulk Save As" under File menu you can convert Outlook 97-2007 .pst files to MSG files. There are three options to save:
And two options for titles: item subject and incremental numeric Id.
Have a lot .pst files to repair, but process requires more manual intervention than you want?
Automate it with command line options.
pstwalker.exe [filename] [/E[:msg|umsg|eml] [/Name[:Id|EntryId|Subject]] [/PATH:dest folder] [/FullScan] [/HardDeleted] [/HardDeletedOnly]]
| filename | Specifies the files to open/process. A filename mask can be applied, e.g. c:\source_folder\*.pst |
| /E | Bulk extract messages to msg - .msg file format umsg - unicode .msg file format eml - .eml(rfc 822) file format |
| /Name | Naming style for the saved messages Id - incremental Id EntryId - PR_ENTRYID (unique message identifier) Subject - message subject |
| /PATH | Specifies destination folder for bulk extracted messages |
| /FullScan | Extensive scan (to recover data from a damaged or a corrupted .pst, .ost files) |
| /HardDeleted | Find 'hard deleted' and 'orphaned' items |
| /HardDeletedOnly | Export only 'hard deleted' and 'orphaned' items |