PST is a widely used Outlook file format. The Personal Storage Table is capable to store emailing items without any complication such as emails, messages, contacts, attachments, tasks, events and many other data. Once you have set up Outlook as your email client, PST file format is automatically started forming to store emails and other data. You can change Outlook PST if you wish to do so. PST is the default file format of Outlook, so it is one of the most common formats using in Offices and by individuals. You can make many PST files and save important files in Hard Drive for security. PST files can be password protected if you wish.
Outlook PST supports two versions- ANSI and Unicode. Both are different from each other. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) PST supports Outlook 2000 and older version represents block ID using 32 bit. While Unicode supports Outlook 2003 and more advanced versions using 64 bit values. In terms of structure of data, both ANSI and Unicode are different. One of the major differences between the two is the capacity of file size, ANSI is able to limit the size at just 2 GB where Unicode has limit of 20 GB and the latest versions have 50 GB. It is recommended to create small sized PST files because big sized files may corrupt. A PST file is extended into a big size when it is stored Hard Drive but when you want to transfer or share the file, don’t forget to divide into several other files.
Converting PST Files to Multiple Formats
PST files are supported to only Outlook. If you want to open them on Apple Mail, Thunderbird and any other known formats, it is not possible. For this, conversion software is recommended. PST Converter Software has been designed that allows PST into many universally known and popular formats including MBOX, EML and VCF. It means you can view PST files on different email clients easily. The conversion software has cool feature support. It offers to convert selected items. The conversion can repair deleted PST items that have in the trash folder. Conversion quality is undoubtedly nice. No data conversion issues are faced. Files containing non-English characters or double byte characters are transferred easily. Unicode and ANSI support is provided by the software.