How to Migrate NSF to PST in Just a Few Steps!

James Edwards
3 min readMar 5, 2021

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There’s No Other Simpler Solution to migrate NSF to PST Than This!

NSF is a generic and industry-standard file to store data. It was first introduced by Lotus Notes and even though Mail now uses NSF files to store emails, NSF went on to become a generic file format for many programs and applications. Most commonly, the source of NSF files that many users get is through Lotus Notes.

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Using the Lotus Notes feature, you can archive your emails or any other data from any of the Lotus Notes services onto an NSF file.

Regardless of the source of the NSF file, there’s one problem that a large group of users always face. It’s the inability of Windows Outlook to read or import NSF format. Windows Outlook is one of the few clients that don’t support NSF format, but only PST file, which is an open-source, but proprietary file format from Microsoft. And therefore, it becomes a necessity to employ a third-party software or a file migration utility to Import NSF to Outlook, if you want to import data to Outlook in PST file format.

PST is also compatible with Outlook, so migrating NSF to PST can also let you to import your data into NSF into Windows variants of Outlook. Also, note that “Softaken” can migrate your NSF Files of Lotus Notes to PST.

To do this, the best way is by “Softaken” which is more than just an NSF to PST converter but a complete utility for this process of migration. Equipped with powerful algorithms to process information without damage or integrity loss, this software provides everything one needs to get the job done correctly like a professional.

Here are simple steps through “Softaken Software” to migrate NSF to PST:

  • First, download the software here. You can get the free trial version to see how it works and to follow through with this tutorial, for now!
  • If you haven’t already, copy the NSF files you want to migrate into your Windows PC where you have installed “Softaken Software”.
  • Launch the software and click on the drop-down list at the top to choose “NSF” as your source/input.
  • Go to the directory where the NSF files are stored and select the folder.
  • You can select one folder that contains multiple NSF files.
  • The software will scan the files and will load up all the folders within those files. You can manually untick/unselect any folder that you don’t need to migrate to PST.
  • Click “Next” Select the output location to store the converted PST files, and the migration will begin.
  • Wait for the software to finish the migration. When done, you will see a brief migration log of the items converted. You can tap on “Situate” to straightforwardly go to the yield envelope containing the PST documents. There will also be a direct link to open the detailed migration log.

“Softaken Software” has the above-stated simple approach. Just load the files and convert. But the features that it has to offer to make it even more professional and the best NSF to PST migration software. i.e: batch migration, support non-English text migration, defined content, and more.

Developed by Softaken Software, you get 24*7 customer support, built of experts on email migration, always ready to help you out regarding anything that you might need help with.

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James Edwards
James Edwards

Written by James Edwards

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Software Engineer cum Technical Writer

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