Install or run portable version of PST Walker. Browse and open an Outlook Data File (.pst) or
Offline Outlook Data File (.ost) file on your PC.
There are two options for opening a file: Like Microsoft Outlook and Extensive Scan.
The Extensive Scan option allows you to recover data from a damaged or corrupted file,
but processing takes longer than Like Microsoft Outlook option. Try both options and compare.
When the .pst or .ost 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, "April", 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 boolean search select "Advanced search" under "Tools->Search Options...".
Boolean search allows you to broaden, limit, and define your search criteria.
Type this | To find this |
---|---|
body:agenda | Items that contains agenda within its contents. |
from:(=bobbymoore@contoso.com OR "bobby moore") | Items in which the e-mail address equals bobbymoore@contoso.com OR sender name contains bobby moore. Note the use of parentheses to group the display name and email address. |
ALL(messagesize:<=100kb, hasattachment:yes, ATLEASTONE(attachments: "txt", attachments: "pdf")) |
Items less than 100KB in size with attachments with the extension txt or pdf. |
With "Export..." under File menu you can convert .pst and .ost files to MSG, EML and MBOX files or to PST file. There are three options to save:
And three options for titles: item subject, incremental numeric Id and PR_ENTRYID.
With the use of command line parameters you can automate PST Walker workflows in batch processing.
Note: Command line parameters are not available in the Home license.
pstwalker-cli.exe
[filename]
[-E:<FileFormatParameter>]
[-Name:<NamingStyleParameter>]
[-SearchQuery:<String>]
[-ExportPath:<DestinationPathParameter>]
[-FullScan]
[-HardDeleted | -HardDeletedOnly]
[-Log]
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\PST Walker\"
$PSTFiles = @("c:\a.ost", "c:\b.ost")
foreach ($PST in $PSTFiles){
.\pstwalker-cli.exe "$PST" --% -E:pst -SearchQuery:'from:(=bobbymoore@contoso.com OR "bobby moore")'-ExportPath:"D:\PST-Exports\"
}
This example searches c:\a.ost and c:\b.ost mailboxes for items in which the e-mail address equals bobbymoore@contoso.com OR sender name contains bobby moore. The search results are exported to D:\PST-Exports\a.pst and D:\PST-Exports\b.pst
When running native commands from PowerShell, the arguments are first parsed by PowerShell. Beginning in PowerShell 3.0, you can use the stop-parsing (--%) token to stop PowerShell from interpreting input as PowerShell commands or expressions.
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\PST Walker\
pstwalker-cli.exe c:\users\*.pst -E:eml -ExportPath:"D:\PST-Queries\" -SearchQuery:'subject:"Your bank statement"' -FullScan -HardDeleted
This example searches all .pst files in c:\users folder for messages and hard deleted messages that contain the phrase "Your bank statement" in the subject. The search results are exported as .eml files to D:\PST-Queries\.
Updated on April 10, 2023
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