Hi guys,

Im trying to move my PST file from windows to my MBP.
The PST file is about 6gb and i copied the PST file to the NAS before copying back to the MBP.

Load Outlook and click import, it just hang there at Importing then finally with the error Cannot import.

Is it because the PST file is too big to be imported?

I tried other PST files of smaller size (for another mail account) and i can import. :S

Please help

unsure about it...but when I tried to export my mac outlook 2016 it is .olx not .pst even if your copy a single email from mac outlook 2016 it is in a .eml instead of .msg like MS Outlook

Yeah sounds like it is rather large.

Why not break the PST file into smaller chunks and then re-import it with your Mac? Last time I imported one around 2Gb and it worked ok.

thanks for the reply. how to break it into multiple chunks ya?

Manual process bro, open PST in windows Outlook. Then create multiple archives.

What I did was separate my emails into years for both the inbox/folders/sent and it came about 2Gb. Of course I deleted all of the junk mails or non-important ones.

I removed outlook 2016 and using the stock Mail now.

I was surprised it handles exchange very well

the prob I have is the old PST items.. a lot of referencing involved so cannot abandon :S

I presume you are using Outlook for Mac 2016?

If not, unfortunately for your case of cross platform migration. Older Outlook for mac does not support OST and PST files. Outlook for mac seems to have each mail.

The only way is to purchase converters which costs money. There are of course alternative ways to buying this converters but i am just suggesting.

Yes im using outlook 2016 windows 10 convert to outlook mac 2016.