Many people wish to backup Outlook to Thunderbird Mail Database. But there aren’t many decent solutions for that, at least not well known. Either you are backing up your data, or simply trying to move all of Outlook data to Thunderbird, you will the following solution very feasible.
Outlook in Windows uses Pst files and that can’t be simply copied to Mac Thunderbird. Thunderbird does not read content.
So, How to Backup Outlook to Thunderbird
The best way to do this is to extract the data contained inside Pst files. Pst is actually a personal storage table file format used by Windows Outlook and few other programs, such as Windows exchange client, and Windows Messaging. It is an open proprietary file format for storing the data. The benefits of Pst file are many, except that the way the data is structured inside Pst file, it becomes difficult to extract it for uses in Mac or Thunderbird.
If you try to employ certain mediocre tools, they will not be able to implement the data into Thunderbird Mail format. There will be a lot of inconsistencies in your converted Thunderbird files.
That is the primary reason why backing up Outlook to Thunderbird can often be painful. Some tools can even damage the source files (PST), and if you haven’t taken the backup, it can be truly nightmarish scenario.
Best Way to Backup Outlook to Thunderbird
Thanks to “Pst Extractor Pro”, all of these problems and challenges are now thing of the past. This particular tool simplifies the overall procedure to a huge significant degree. First of all, it is designed in a way that even the complete naive user can also understand its interface. This feature or quality puts it in a different category among Outlook to Thunderbird converter.
The Challenges
If you have ever tried doing this conversion before, you might know what are issues generally faced. I will list some of the most commonly seen issues.
- Loss of attachments
- Loss of images from emails
- Loss of folder hierarchy
- Loss of properties of emails
- Loss of non-English contents
- Loss of nested messages
- Loss of meta-data
- Loss of countless hours
With the exceptional technology for data-processing, Pst Extractor Pro finally releases all of these concerns right out the window. None of your data elements will be corrupted or lost. Whatever was in your Pst file or Outlook database, you will get them untouched, unharmed in converted Thunderbird file format.
Other than that, it also converts the contacts and calendar data to Vcf and Ics file respectively. And lets users choose if they want to merge items into a single Vcf and Ics file for each contact and calendar folder respectively.
Extremely easy to use
There is always that lingering concern over any software and that is “will it be easy to use”. With “Pst Extractor Pro” that concern is completely gone.
With its revolutionary one-screen wizard, you will find no feature that you can’t use, no step that you won’t understand. All the instructions are given keeping the basic users in mind that have no skills or expertise with complicated computer tasks. If you can perform regular computer tasks, like sending an email, you can use “Pst Extractor Pro”.
Free Trial to Backup Outlook to Thunderbird
You can try it for free before purchasing the full license. Click here to download the trial version.
To backup Outlook to Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Entourage Archive 2004/2008, MBOX, RGE & EML file format, download PST Extractor Pro.