Microsoft Outlook backup file

[RideForever]

In my old life as a Windows user, MS Outlook looked after emails, calendar, notes, tasks, contacts and each of these could be backed up separately as a .pst file (personal storage table). I am now operating an iMac, running macOS High Sierra, v10.13.3

Is there a way to open a "contacts.pst" that anybody knows of so that I can access contact information?

Thanks

 

[DaveS]

If you're using Apple Mail on the iMac, the Contacts app (brown icon in the dock) should contain what you want. I haven't tried to tie it to the Calendar app, but that may be possible to some extent. The contacts file is separate from the list of those to whom you have sent mail in the past. That's in Mail under the Window menu > Previous recipients. There may be more to it. There doesn't seem to be many of the "experts" chiming in lately.

Dave

 

[chas_m]

Sorry I haven't been around, many projects and trips coming to fruition over the last month!

Outlook is of course available as part of Microsoft Office for the Mac if you like, but you can convert a PST contacts file to Contacts (and other PST files to their proper places) using PST Bridge (on the Mac App Store) or PST Bridge Pro (http://www.arrowbit.com/info/pstbridge). The Pro version costs $30, the Mac App Store version costs $12 (prices are USD).