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Written By Rohan Wiese
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Updated on December 14th, 2023
Free Methods to Import, Convert or Migrate Emails from Google Takeout to Outlook
If you are looking for a solution to convert emails from Google Takeout to Outlook then your search ends here. Here, in this article, I’ll be discussing the free methods to import emails to MS Outlook.
As you know that MS Outlook is the most popular email application nowadays, most users prefer to use Outlook to store, receive and send emails. As Outlook is compatible with PST file, so in order to access the emails backup from Google Takeout into Outlook, you need to export mailbox of Google Takeout to PST file format. But before jumping onto to the solution directly you ought to know what Google Takeout is.
What is Google Takeout?
Google Takeout is a project by the Google Data Liberation Front. It provides a backup service that allows Google users to download a backup of Google account data into a ZIP file. This ZIP file has a separate folder for each service which is selected to export. Users can also select to export all the available services and by using this service they are able to make a backup of their Google data.
How to Use Takeout to Download Google Services Data
If you do not want to lose your Google Account data then I recommend you to take regular backups of your data. Google Takeout is a free service that will help you to take the backup of your Google Account data. Follow the given steps to use this service.
- Login to Google Takeout with your email account and password.
- Now select the data which you want to take backup.
- Now click on Create Archive. Here Google Takeout will start creating an archive of selected data.
- After that download the data and save it.
Why there is a need to convert Mailbox data from Google Takeout to PST format?
Once you have finished downloading the archive of Google services, you will see that all your mailbox data is in MBOX file format. And you cannot directly import Google mailbox file into Outlook because it does not support the MBOX file extension. Hence, there is a need to convert Google Takeout mailbox data into PST format.
How to import or convert Google Takeout data to Outlook
Now, this is the question which arises that how would you convert it into Outlook PST format. Well, there are no manual ways available which can accomplish this task. So, I recommend you to use an automated tool MBOX to PST Converter which will swiftly convert all the mailbox data of Google takeout into PST format. This software can support 20+ MBOX email clients and is quite user-friendly.
Follow the below steps to import Google Takeout to Outlook PST format
- Launch the software onto your system, add the MBOX files and click on OK to start the scanning process.
- After completion of the scanning process click OK.
- Now click on any email item to check its preview in the preview pane.
- The selected location will be displayed here. Click OK to start the conversion process of selected MBOX file into a defined file format.
- The conversion process starts here, wait until it gets completed.
- Now click on the OK button once the conversion process gets completed.
Conclusion
Above I have suggested the method to convert or migrate emails from Google Takeout to Outlook. As there is no such manual method available which can directly import MBOX file to Outlook PST so the suggested tool proves to be the best in converting all your Mailbox backup data into PST format.
About The Author:
Rohan Wiese is a Technical Content Writer at Aryson Technologies, specializing in databases, e-mail recovery, and e-mail migration solutions. He enjoys conducting research and generating information that assists database administrators, businesses, and novices in resolving issues with MS SQL Server, MySQL databases, Cloud Computing, and Microsoft Exchange.
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