Google Takeout to PST — your Gmail export, ready for Outlook
Turn the .tgz or .zip from Google Takeout into an Outlook .pst, with Gmail labels kept as folders.
About this conversion
Google Takeout hands out Gmail as one mbox inside an archive, which Outlook cannot read. Drop the archive here exactly as it downloaded and it becomes a .pst that Outlook opens or imports. Gmail has labels instead of folders, so each message goes to the folder Outlook would expect: Inbox, Sent Items, Drafts, Junk Email, Deleted Items, or a folder named after your own label.
Just want to look inside it?
The same tool without converting anything: open a Google Takeout archive and read it.
You are not locked into PST
The file is parsed once and stays open, so the format is picked at the end rather than the beginning: the same archive can leave here as CSV, XLSX, ZIP, EML, MBOX, PDF, HTML, TXT or JSON. Before that you can search it by subject or address, filter by year, sender and attachment type, mark the duplicates and look through the archive overview.
Questions
- Do I need to unpack the Takeout archive first?
- No. Drop the .tgz, .tar.gz or .zip as Google gave it; the mbox inside is found on its own. If the export came in several parts, select all of them at once.
- A message has several labels — where does it go?
- Into one folder, so it is not copied several times: Trash, Spam, Sent and Drafts come first, then your own label, then Inbox, and everything else goes to Archive.
- Can I convert just one label?
- Yes. Pick it in the folder filter before saving, and only the messages that are listed go into the .pst.
- Does my Google Calendar come along?
- Not from the mail export. Invitations stay messages with their invite.ics attached — drag one onto Calendar in Outlook to add the event. The calendar itself is a separate part of Takeout; open it on the calendar page to get .ics or Excel.