Introduction to Splitting Outlook PST File in Outlook
As the trend of email communication is on the rise, most users prefer to use email service for establishing an efficient mode of communication. A number of email applications are present, which serve the users with their services. Similarly, Outlook tends to serve millions of users as a trustworthy and efficient service. It allows maintaining a history of emails, contacts, calendars etc into PST format(Personal Storage Table). As the number of data items associated with the account increase, the PST files start becoming over-sized. Users find it difficult to handle large files and prefer to split Outlook PST file into smaller chunks.
Splitting the files into small parts create multiple small PSTs, which can be easily read, searched. However, splitting the files without losing any data is the foremost point to be taken care of while deciding to split Outlook PST file. Such task can be simplified by third party software available in the market. One such famous tool is Split PST software, which promises to split large PST file into smaller PSTs. The software has been tested by our expert team to evaluate it on the basis of certain quality factors: performance, time taken, efficiency, data maintenance etc. The following section aims to provide the transparent review of PST Splitter.
Distinguished Features of Split PST Software
The software proves its functionality and efficiency by offering the following features:
1. Split Outlook PST file
Using the Split PST software, the users can split large PST file into smaller chunks without losing data. It offers to split all kinds of PST: UNICODE as well as ANSI and also maintains their folder hierarchy after split.
2. Size-based PST splitting
The software offers the users to split PST file by size where the user just needs to specify the file size between 5 MB to 10 GB for each resultant PST file. The tool itself creates smaller PSTs of the specified size.
3. Date-wise File Splitting
Users can also split the PST file data on the basis of date by using Split PST by Date mode of the tool. One needs to mention the time period and the tool itself splits the PST files considering the “Before” and “After” data.
4. Year-wise PST Splitting
In case, the users wants to divide PST files for different years, they can go for Split PST by year option. The PST splitter generates smaller PST files for each different year, thus separating the files on yearly basis.
5. Folder-wise Splitting
The PST splitter software offers to split Outlook PST file on the basis of folders. Thus, users can split PST by folder and create separate PST files for Outlook folders i.e., inbox. PST, Outbox.PST, contacts.pst etc.
Additional provisions offered by Split PST software
Apart from above discussed major features, the software offers other features such as no file size restriction to split large PST files, no data loss during file split, instant file splitting, split status in CSV format.
PST Splitter Specifications
The hardware and software configuration requirements for the software are as follows:
Available Versions of Split PST tool
The software can be availed in the following two versions from company’s official website:
1. Demo Version
The free PST Splitter software allows splitting Outlook PST file under different split criteria. However, using this version limit to split only first 50 emails.
2. Licensed Versions
The paid PST Splitter tool can be purchased to split large PST file without any limitations. It offers to split unlimited number of data items into multiple PSTs.
PROS
- 1. The tool facilitates to customize split PST files by size, date, folder, year
- 2. Any sized PST can be split without data loss
CONS
- The software offers to split only healthy PST file. There is no provision for splitting corrupted or damaged PST file.
Expert’s Verdict
Our experts have tested the software to split 50 GB PST file into multiple PSTs. The software could successfully split PST file into smaller parts without any data loss. Thus, after reviewing the tool from various perspectives and fundamentals, we have come to the point that the Split PST software is worthy to use for splitting any sized PST file. Moreover, the split report generated at the end of processing also influenced its useThe software can be rated as 9.8 out of 10 as it fulfills all the expectations of experts without any issue.
