How to View PST Files

Updated: 2025-08-02

Install Recovery Toolbox for Outlook and get to know How to View PST Files Without Outlook in several mouse clicks. This application also quickly recovers data corruption issues in Microsoft Outlook and rebuilds output files. We believe it is the Best Free PST Viewer you can find:

  1. Download the setup file of Recovery Toolbox for Outlook and install the tool https://outlook.recoverytoolbox.com/recovery-toolbox-for-outlook-thank-you-download.html
  2. Choose a file of PST format inside Recovery Toolbox for Outlook
  3. Choose a Recovery Mode
  4. Get access to messages, contacts, folders and other items when previewing data
  5. Explore content of .PST file on the preview page for free

Free function of the Outlook PST Repair Tool

Recovery Toolbox for Outlook is designed to read any PST file irrespective of its size, version, password protected, encrypted or not. The Outlook PST Repair Tool reads fully or partially corrupted Microsoft Outlook PST files. A normal user can absolutely free read the contents of any PST file without having Outlook program just by downloading and installing Recovery Toolbox for Outlook. To view PST file, you need to do:

  1. Download Recovery Toolbox for Outlook
  2. Install Recovery Toolbox for Outlook program
  3. Run The Outlook PST Repair Tool
  4. Select the PST file on the first page of the program
  5. Click Next

After that, on the second page of The Outlook PST Repair Tool, the user will see the contents of the PST (Personal Store Table) file.

Free function of the Outlook PST Repair Tool
How to View PST Files

Free Outlook PST File Viewer

Recovery Toolbox for Outlook is a Free Outlook PST File Viewer capable of opening good and corrupted mailboxes in Microsoft Outlook. The Microsoft Outlook PST Viewer protects client mailboxes from different threats and quickly recovers email data also.

Key features of OST PST Viewer:

  • View PST Without Outlook, both healthy and corrupted files
  • Viewing PST files, searching a specific email
  • Scanning PST Files and recovers email attachments
  • Viewing PST File, recovering notes, journals, tasks, calendars, messages, and contacts
  • View PST File Without Outlook and showing the original mailbox folders structure
  • View.PST Files and good .pst files too
  • .PST File Viewer opens any number of PST files for free
  • View.PST File even when these files are password-protected
  • .PST Viewer saves data in a different format, such as EML, VCF, TXT, and MSG
  • Free PST File Viewer opens PST files of any size
  • Outlook data file cannot be accessed
  • Outlook 2019 Repair
  • Outlook 2016 Repair
features of PST viewer

Recovery Toolbox for Outlook

recover corrupted email folders

No any limitation for the size of the input file

Recovery Toolbox for Outlook is a Free Outlook PST Viewer; it is free to evaluate your chances to recover corrupted email folders in Microsoft Outlook. Get the setup file of Outlook File Viewer from the developer’s website and check, if the PST Viewer can repair corrupted mailbox in Microsoft Outlook.

Microsoft Outlook Viewer works with either small or sizable files of Microsoft Outlook format. Users need to select a file of PST format for analysis; that is all. During the analysis of the selected mailbox, the PST Extractor does not hang the computer in use even when working with huge files.

No need to have installed Microsoft Outlook for the analysis of

There is no need to have an instance of Microsoft Outlook installed on your PC. Microsoft Outlook PST Viewer works independently, without the presence of email client. The PST File Explorer works on any computer. Input a correct path and start the analysis of Personal Store Folder of MS Outlook.

Provides data recovery report

In the very end of recovery, the Microsoft PST Viewer suggests the final evaluation where users check the recovery statistics, plus the amount of successfully recovered data. As a result, users may see how many items have been restored by the MS Outlook Viewer.

Opens PST files protected by a password

No worries if you have a PST file protected by password, the original account details are not lost. The Outlook Email Viewer allows accessing such files. Add the desired mailbox to Recovery Toolbox for Outlook and proceed as usual, like you open any other mailbox in PST format with PST Viewers.

Recovery Toolbox for Outlook represents an intelligent Outlook PST File Viewer capable of repairing corrupted data of Microsoft Outlook. The free version of Outlook Viewer is available on the website of tool developer. This tool is compatible with all available versions of Microsoft Windows. This MS Journal Viewer allows accessing a mailbox in Microsoft Outlook format in case of data corruption, caused by any reason, regardless of the origin of the issue.

The PST Explorer can even protect Outlook email from ransomware. It is possible because such viruses encrypt only headers of large files. Therefore, Recovery Toolbox for Outlook provides excellent opportunities to recover data.

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Mac PST Viewer

No worries if you do not have a Windows computer. The developer offers the Online PST Viewer, no need to install anything. The online version of PST Browser is located here: https://outlook.recoverytoolbox.com/online/. Using the PST Viewer Mac, clients need to upload a .PST file and proceed to the recovery. The Online Free PST File Viewer does not use the computer’s resources; it recovers data and suggests downloading a clean file of PST format when it is ready. This application is the Best PST Viewer you can find.

The PST Viewer Review is provided by the developer of Recovery Toolbox for Outlook.

The extensions of recovered files: pst and ost. The Online Service and Recovery Toolbox for Outlook repairs files Microsoft Outlook 98 / 2000 / 2002 / 2003 / 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019 / 2021 / 2024 and Outlook for Microsoft 365.

Customer's reviews and ratings:
Navin 06-30-2025

super recovery, very fast and did a perfect job, can recommend to any one looking for recovery software.

didi 06-30-2025

100% ist Gut!

Dietmar Kroschel 06-23-2025

Hello Recovery Toolbox team,
thank you very much for your support. One of my PCs froze, forcing me to do a hard reset. At the time, Outlook was open. After the restart, Outlook could no longer find the PST. Renaming the PST wasn't possible, even in safe mode. Apparently, a program was accessing the PST even though Outlook was closed on all computers. A Google search led me to your tool. After the repair (2-3 hours), I was able to save the PST under a new name and use it again.
Thanks again.
Best regards, Dietmar Kroschel

John Payne 05-12-2025

I needed to access OST files on an old hard disk. As I don't use Outlook as email client, I needed to find a tool. I was not recovering from corrupted data.
Thanks for making the tool👍

MaDestro 05-11-2025

Feels good! i like it! thnx for devs

aamir 04-24-2025

its workilng very well in 2025 thank you

Сергей Д 04-04-2025

Great program, really helped me out!

Ferran 03-26-2025

Excel.lent! I couldn't with other applications and this one worked the first time!

alesik61 03-12-2025

Good program

Rameshwar 03-10-2025

sir best softwear for everyone . Thanks

MUBA 03-10-2025

Tank you very very much the software is help full

Barend 03-05-2025

Had my agenda only in the ost, so not synched to the webmail.
After making a new profile my agenda items were gone. Used the Recovery tool for Outlook to restore the items to a PST from a backup of the old OST files. And then copied them back to my agenda.
This worked well although only the agenda item are restored, not the attachments and extra information field.

ALOK KUMAR 03-02-2025

VERY GOOD

Pal 02-24-2025

Really works. It identifies the bad sectors and skips them while getting rest of the data out.

Goon 02-09-2025

Love it.. except.. you should consider including a PAUSE/RESUME button. Just sayin'. Thanks.

Kees Lebon 01-07-2025


I wanted to send a large pdf file (20Mb).
While sending I disrupted this process (turned off pc?). As a result I had an unclosed mail in my pst-file. As a result my pst-file was corrupted and my outlook could no longer be started/opened.
This tool fixed PST-file.

Tim 12-28-2024

Recovery Toolbox for Outlook was able to convert an .OST to .PST, but the ability to open the .PST is missing. The help text says it is under the File menu, but all that is there is "Exit".

Отставник 12-06-2024

Хорошая вещь! Отлично справляется, за секунду исправил испорченный файл.

Maurice Barboza 11-19-2024

I don't know if the files were damaged, but they could well have been. These two files were backups of PST files that I had made before transitioning from the POP mail protocol to IMAP.

IMAP attached itself to my original emails and, apparently, those stored as backups. Then all the open folders in Outlook began to disappear until there were none remaining. I had no clue what had happened. I couldn't imagine they were hijacked and held at the mercy of my ISP. Then IMAP somehow transformed my PST backup files into OST files, which Outlook 2024 cannot read.

The Toolbox was able to quickly and efficiently recreate the files as PST.
That allowed me to restore and open every one of the 24,000 files.

Later, I learned that IMAP doesn't just sync emails created after its implementation but every file that it automatically and without permission opens in Outlook. I was unaware that this caused me to exceed my storage limit, leading to the disappearance of my 24,000 emails.

It is a hazardous, intrusive, and damaging protocol. It is also a potentially lucrative source of business for your company.

Raju 11-18-2024

Best

aNKDBXJKla 10-06-2024

nice

Michel HITZIG 09-22-2024

I exported from Oulook 365 a folder with a lot of e-mails, ans had a .pst 2,28 Go file. Then, I did a factory reset of my PC. I could of course import the pst file in Outlook, but I did not wanted to do that, in order to avoid duplicates in Outlook. So, I used Toolbox recovery to convert the pst file in msg, ans I copied and paste the msg files in Outlook, and it worked perfectly.

Ma 09-15-2024

I am using Microsoft Outlook and for some unknown reason I was unable to export my OST file to PST file.
Windows stopped working properly and I had to restore it. It went well, but I lost all the applications that were not part of Windows, such as Microsoft Office.
I reinstalled Microsoft Office but Outlook can't open the OST file. So I had to use Recovery Tollbox to convert it to a PST file.
Everything went well and I recovered my old emails and contacts.

John Secor 09-13-2024

Okay, here is the why I am so frustrated at the moment with the recovery of emails from Outlook.

Apparently, there was an upgrade to Outlook that my system allowed and the program would not load. I followed instructions on how to get it to load from MS support forum and it finally loaded however all my contacts were lost. Again, following MS support I deleted the email account and reinstalled it and that is when everything went south in a big way.

Now I had some of my contacts back (from the cloud) but none of my stored files inside Outlook. I purchased the Recovery Toolbox to retrieve those files. While running the program I could see the files being recovered in the folders and subfolders that they were originally stored in. But, when the recovery was complete the files were not in the folder and subfolder in my Outlook but in individual unsorted and ungrouped emails. That said, the folders and subfolders did come over as they were supposed to on my Iphone! Well, now Outlook determined that I am over quota on emails and will not let new emails arrive.

I deleted as many non-essential emails, files and folders that I could in Outlook so that I can receive a few emails before I have to delete some more. I AM AFRAID TO DELETE OR MOVE ANY OF THE FOLDERS AND SUBFOLDERS ON MY IPHONE FOR FEAR THAT I WILL LOSE THEM.

So, I want to get away from Outlook so downloaded em Client but when I try to allow Outlook to download my main email to the new program I get the error “there was an error obtaining credentials via oAuth”.

And that is where I am, stuck with no way to consistently receive emails on my main email address and no way to move my emails to a new program. Also, I am really afraid that I will lose all the folders and subfolders on my Iphone if I don’t get them saved to a hard drive or somewhere else.

Max 09-01-2024

Excelente Aplicación

Kuno 08-21-2024


Hello.

I don't know exactly what I expected, but probably more than I got.
It may well be that my emails were recreated but all emails are empty. I can see sender and recipient but that's all.
I had probably hoped that some emails could be recreated so that I could read the whole email. But no waste of money.

Kind regards
Kuno Nielsen

Paolo 08-21-2024

all perfect ! good job thanks

Ahmet Üzülmez 08-14-2024

Çok Güzel bir program.

Anil 08-11-2024

Excellant software

Paul van Eden 08-05-2024

Dear Support,


Glad to tell my story here what went wrong.

I had this new e-mail account in Japan which I wanted to add to my Outlook.
I have a windows 11 laptop with the new outlook.
The e-mail account is a pop3 account, but I could not add it to my outlook.

Adding it to my Android phone worked.
Adding it to another PC with Windows 10 and the old outlook worked as well.

So I thought the new outlook was to blame here and switched it back to the old version ( there was switch button in the outlook to do so) And yes, I could add the new account ( late at night)

Next morning, starting outlook and collecting mails from several accounts worked for all but one.
For one account it suddenly wanted to know the password, but did not accept it.

Inspection of the accounts then learned that Outlook had all my E-Mail accounts converted to IMAP accounts.
(except for the Japanese account added the night before.)


This seemed to work for all account but one.
So I was stuck with this one account in IMAP which needed to be POP3 Account.

First I had to recover this E-Mail account via the Web interface putting password and security codes several times.

So I googled the Internet on how to convert IMAP to POP3 and I learned you just have to delete the IMAP account and create a new POP3.
Here is where the real trouble started....

I figured out that I need a backup, but saved then the .OST files instead of the .pst files, not knowing there is no easy way to get from .ost to .pst.

So I could set up the new account and load my E-Mails from the last weeks, but the folders I missed.

That’s where I came across your tool and could convert the .ost file.



So partially I can put the blame on Microsoft for not accepting the POP3 account in the new outlook and setting existing accounts to IMAP, Partially on me, for not saving the correct .pst file but the .ost instead.

Maybe you can do something with this information.


Kind regards,

Paul van Eden.

Denis 08-05-2024

Great tool

Claudio C 07-26-2024

Simple but useful application

Fabri 07-03-2024

Excellent program

perhaakon 06-10-2024

After my computer crashed due to some updates, I had to do a factory reset but keep my data. Unfortunately, all my archived emails after a certain date last year were lost. I've tried all sorts of solutions with limited success, including another recovery tool. By chance I found Recovery Toolbox, and it turned out that with the help of this product all my emails were recovered and neatly placed in the xxx.pst file, as they were before the failure.

indaeer 06-10-2024

good software

florent 05-27-2024

very well done application. Thank you

Richard 04-26-2024

Excellent on-line service. The conversion from OST to PST was quick, accurate and at minimal cost.
Thank you.

Joe 04-25-2024

Was converting large ost file (14gb) to pst. Recovered all my emails , great software ..

Joseph P Ciccolo 04-19-2024

The source file was not damaged

I was converting my laptop from imap to pop email. I used your tool to convert the imap .ost file to .pst.

Mail and contacts came over correctly. Notes are the only piece that did not.

Steve Powell 01-25-2024

I need to convert a large .ost file to a .pst file to set up a new laptop. Recovery Toolbox worked very well and relatively quickly.

Steve 12-12-2023

My Outlook PST files (30+GB) were still accessible but running off a hard-drive that had started to fail with bad sectors. I was unable to clone the drive or copy the PST files to a new location. Recovery toolbox was able to rebuild my data files as a new data file on a replacement drive location and continue to use my mail file after the recovery process. Tried many other recommended solutions but none were able to help with the recovery apart from the recovery toolbox for outlook.

Stefano Benaglia 12-11-2023

the file I was trying to repair, had nothing wrong. Simply I wrongly backed-up my old e-mail history in a .ost file instead of a .pst file, and I needed to check some of the e-mails contained in that file.
Your program worked fantastic, and I successfully converted the .ost into .pst having back my old e-mails.
Thank you very much.

François Steies 11-30-2023

My PST got corrupted as it grew too large. Windows Explorer showed a size og 76gb, the recovered files is 50GB. I will still have to verifiy if everything has been recovered.

Rog 11-15-2023

When changing my ISP to gmail I created a new ost file leaving an orphaned ost with past information which i wanted. Recovery Tollbox allowed me to convert and then retrive this

Geordie 11-03-2023

The OST files were not corrupted. My client got a system where the M465 mailbox was closed and the only access to old emails was from a local OST file on the same system. Outlook was reporting that it could not connect to the exchange server, but the 11GB OSt file was still there. Using Recovery Toolbox, we were able to create a PST file and access all the old emails.

JohnJJ 11-03-2023

This was the only utility that quickly solved the problem of converting OST file to Outlook PST file.
Thank you!

Albert H 10-27-2023

My Outlook.pst became corrupted. Why? I have no freaking idea! This has happened several times and the hassle to get it back was time consuming and worrisome because I thought I lost all my contacts and calendar. In using Recovery Toolbox for Outlook, I have all my mail files on my C drive but I have my Outlook.pst file on my Google drive. I think that was the problem. So what I did was use Recovery Toolbox to fix my Outlook.pst file, move it to the subdirectory where the mail files are and it worked. I am so grateful and the price is excellent!!!

Marco Costa 10-27-2023

I really appreciate your app because it solved my problem. I just had to convert the OST file. Tanks and regards

Gabrielle 33 09-14-2023

In the west, nothing new, nothing to do, even Microsoft is incapable; someone had put me before September 7 and it showed right away, 16 viruses erased by Microsoft's free scanner, but the damaged pst file, we can't find which one and I read my mail on my email, stella is no better, even worse. Finally, your presentation of all the psts is fine, but which one is bad? mystery....

Jim 08-08-2023

I accidentally erased 3 months of Inbox email by clicking on the "Empty Folder" button. As part of my PC management, I backup my C Drive incrementally every night and that includes the OST and PST Outlook files. The backup copy of the PST file was missing 3 months of emails while the OST still had them but inaccessible. So, your program converted the OST to a new PST and I could recover the lost emails. Great Program, thanks.