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How do I import outlook mail without a copy of outlook, just the pst file, recovering from catastrophic failure

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I have had my pc trashed by a virus/trojan and am trying to rebuild without access to the office install. I have the outlook mail .pst file. Thunderbird v38 does not offer the option, I have tried downgrading to v31 as per previous answers but this says it requires an installed Outlook to do its thing. Is there a way to get my pst file imported to Thunderbird without having a working Office install? Sorry for the convoluted title, I was trying to encapsulate the problem in one sentence, not realising I had this info field to come. The OS is Win 7.

I have had my pc trashed by a virus/trojan and am trying to rebuild without access to the office install. I have the outlook mail .pst file. Thunderbird v38 does not offer the option, I have tried downgrading to v31 as per previous answers but this says it requires an installed Outlook to do its thing. Is there a way to get my pst file imported to Thunderbird without having a working Office install? Sorry for the convoluted title, I was trying to encapsulate the problem in one sentence, not realising I had this info field to come. The OS is Win 7.

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Thanks for that. There seem to be a variety of commercial tools out there and some that look dodgy. Anyway, I managed to resurrect an old machine with Office on it, installed Thunderbird 31.8 on that and successfully did the import. I then had a bit of work to do to locate the correct Profile files, the install creates a Profile directory in AppData/Local/Thunderbird as well as in AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird. The Roaming profile is the operative one. I copied the contents of the Profile/xxxxxx.default on the rescue machine to the Profile/yyyyy.default on the new installation, replacing any existing items, and voila, all is good. Now to upgrade to the latest Thunderbird version.

Just for interest, what is the function of the Local/Thunderbird/Profile files? Cheers, Selwyn

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The .pst format is proprietary, and I think you either need Outlook or a third party conversion tool.

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Thanks for that. There seem to be a variety of commercial tools out there and some that look dodgy. Anyway, I managed to resurrect an old machine with Office on it, installed Thunderbird 31.8 on that and successfully did the import. I then had a bit of work to do to locate the correct Profile files, the install creates a Profile directory in AppData/Local/Thunderbird as well as in AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird. The Roaming profile is the operative one. I copied the contents of the Profile/xxxxxx.default on the rescue machine to the Profile/yyyyy.default on the new installation, replacing any existing items, and voila, all is good. Now to upgrade to the latest Thunderbird version.

Just for interest, what is the function of the Local/Thunderbird/Profile files? Cheers, Selwyn

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I actually don't know what Thunderbird stores in \Local but if it's like Firefox, that is used for temporary files like the cache for HTML pages.