Input file
PST
- Full Name: Microsoft Outlook Personal Folder Format
- Developer: Microsoft
Output file
DBX
- Full Name: Microsoft Outlook Express E-mail Folder Format
- Developer: Microsoft
What is PST file?
The PST (Outlook Personal Information Store File) is a file extension used by Microsoft Outlook to save its emails, calendar entries, contacts, tasks and other associated items. Characteristic of this file extension is that messages and other items are kept in individual folders, according to their classification. Microsoft Outlook stores information on its central database known as an .ost file, but these can only accessed when connected to a server. [ ⏩ ] PST file extension
What is DBX file?
The DBX file extension is one of several associated with .dbx files, which are the files used to store e-mail messages, and other related data, in Outlook Express (a Microsoft application used to manage e-mail messages and hosted by the Windows operating system). The DBX files are used by Outlook Express to store mail in Microsoft Windows Mail, which is also known as Windows Live Mail. This makes it easy to back up or manage all of the mail from different applications. [ ⏩ ] DBX file extension
Software, that you can use to convert
How to convert the file from PST to DBX?
To successfully convert the PST file to DBX, you should install one of the applications from the list. After installing the software, open the program and select the file you want to convert (file-name.PST). The next step is to select the target format from the list, in this case DBX (usually converters allow you to convert to several different formats, so check out their features - maybe one of the available formats will suit you more than DBX).
What is a file conversion?
A data conversion is normally an automated process to some extent. The effect of the operation of one program is automatically the input product of another application. If that does not happen we need to help the process a little bit and convert the file on our own, e.g. PST to DBX. To obtain a matched structure of the data, it is necessary to use an appropriate converter.
Program for converting PST files to DBX files is a kind of a "binary code translator" compensating for the differences in the code or translating it in such a way so that another application could use it. For us, as users, the visible change will be only another file extension. (After converting the file, it will be the extension DBX, while before this step we had the PST file). For the programs, the difference is on a much higher level – either the application will be able to open a new DBX file, or not.