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Full Text Search in multiple offline PST files

I have 7 outlook PST files that I need to search for keywords in subject and body of all emails in all folders in each PST file. I will need to use boolean operators between some of the words and the search string may contain up to 20 different words. Instead of loading all the PST files up in outlook and waiting for an index to be built, does anyone know of a good application that will load all the PST files and successfully search all the messages in each file for keywords? I have looked at 4Team PstOSTViewer but the full text search is limited at best. I have also looked at PSTWalker but I didn't want to buy yet if I could get a better recommendation. Thanks for your help!

yo_bee

Put the PST's in a folder and add that folder to your Index Option under Control Panel or put all 7 PST's under the default location of your OS.
This if from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Introduction-to-Outlook-Data-Files-pst-and-ost-222EAF92-A995-45D9-BDE2-F331F60E2790

Outlook Data Files (.pst) created by using Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016 are typically saved on your computer in the Documents\Outlook Files folder. If you upgraded to Outlook on a computer that already had data files that were created in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or earlier, these files are saved in a different location in a hidden folder at drive:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook.

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Edwin Hoffer

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Jerry Frey

Hi,

You can use free PST viewer from Stellar to load and view the complete data of PST file. With the help of this tool, you can even view corrupt PST file and save the individual mail in EML, MSG, RTF, HTML, or PDF format.