Outlook 365 - Gets the next Lotus award?
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It's such a pathetic experience trying to export the mail dumps from server to a local .pst file. By default , Outlook shows you just few files or no files, if the mails are old. It just downloads the header and shows you. Its not exactly downloading to local cache Now I follow their doc and do export the mails, A folder of 2GB in server, finishes export to PST with 800MB. It worked just for a folder. There's no way to force Outlook to download all the files to local cache :(. The UI is just frustrating. Adding to this, the normal export-pst wizard ends with an "Unknown erro". I'm creating a dummy pst and then manually moving from server folder to this. When I just drag & drop the entire folder, nothing gets copied but the empty folder structure. I'm getting into each sub-folder, click on "Show more files" then it downloads the header and shows me the mails list. Then I select-all and copy the items to the dummy pst file created. Any better way to do this? :doh:
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It's such a pathetic experience trying to export the mail dumps from server to a local .pst file. By default , Outlook shows you just few files or no files, if the mails are old. It just downloads the header and shows you. Its not exactly downloading to local cache Now I follow their doc and do export the mails, A folder of 2GB in server, finishes export to PST with 800MB. It worked just for a folder. There's no way to force Outlook to download all the files to local cache :(. The UI is just frustrating. Adding to this, the normal export-pst wizard ends with an "Unknown erro". I'm creating a dummy pst and then manually moving from server folder to this. When I just drag & drop the entire folder, nothing gets copied but the empty folder structure. I'm getting into each sub-folder, click on "Show more files" then it downloads the header and shows me the mails list. Then I select-all and copy the items to the dummy pst file created. Any better way to do this? :doh:
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are you using the desktop client of Outlook or is this the online client? I wold try using the desktop client to do this. If that does not work, then I have no other suggestions. I very rarely need to do what you are doing. Actually, haven't needed to do this for many years. good luck. Edit: forgot to mention, that no one can get that Lotus award. That is only for a special kind of madness. Outlook is no where near as bad as Lotus was/is. :laugh:
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It's such a pathetic experience trying to export the mail dumps from server to a local .pst file. By default , Outlook shows you just few files or no files, if the mails are old. It just downloads the header and shows you. Its not exactly downloading to local cache Now I follow their doc and do export the mails, A folder of 2GB in server, finishes export to PST with 800MB. It worked just for a folder. There's no way to force Outlook to download all the files to local cache :(. The UI is just frustrating. Adding to this, the normal export-pst wizard ends with an "Unknown erro". I'm creating a dummy pst and then manually moving from server folder to this. When I just drag & drop the entire folder, nothing gets copied but the empty folder structure. I'm getting into each sub-folder, click on "Show more files" then it downloads the header and shows me the mails list. Then I select-all and copy the items to the dummy pst file created. Any better way to do this? :doh:
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A little late to the party, but this worked for me: [^]How to export Office 365 mailboxes to PST using eDiscovery[^] Intuitive after you do it a few times.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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A little late to the party, but this worked for me: [^]How to export Office 365 mailboxes to PST using eDiscovery[^] Intuitive after you do it a few times.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
theoldfool wrote:
Intuitive after you do it a few times.
No, it becomes habit.
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It's such a pathetic experience trying to export the mail dumps from server to a local .pst file. By default , Outlook shows you just few files or no files, if the mails are old. It just downloads the header and shows you. Its not exactly downloading to local cache Now I follow their doc and do export the mails, A folder of 2GB in server, finishes export to PST with 800MB. It worked just for a folder. There's no way to force Outlook to download all the files to local cache :(. The UI is just frustrating. Adding to this, the normal export-pst wizard ends with an "Unknown erro". I'm creating a dummy pst and then manually moving from server folder to this. When I just drag & drop the entire folder, nothing gets copied but the empty folder structure. I'm getting into each sub-folder, click on "Show more files" then it downloads the header and shows me the mails list. Then I select-all and copy the items to the dummy pst file created. Any better way to do this? :doh:
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My problem is thatt I have an Outlook PST file with about 10 years worth of emails, but I forgot the password, so I can even see them.
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