I have been archiving my e-mails but when I went to retrive an e-mail the
program it is trying to open with is adobe. What program should I be opening
with and how do I retrieve my e-mails now?

open it in outlook, go File/Open/Outlook Data File, it shows up as a
folder in the folder list

In article <13CB6237-442E-4353-AE30-(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
>
> I have been archiving my e-mails but when I went to retrive an e-mail the
> program it is trying to open with is adobe. What program should I be opening
> with and how do I retrieve my e-mails now?

I tried that already but it doesn't work. I started around the first of
August archiving my e-mails into my external hard drive. I was able to open
it once but now it will not open. The file is still a pst file but it was
trying to open with Adobe. i finally got the program to open it with changed
to Microsoft Outlook but when i try to open it says it cannot find the file
and for me to very the path.

"Dan" wrote:

> open it in outlook, go File/Open/Outlook Data File, it shows up as a
> folder in the folder list
>
> In article <13CB6237-442E-4353-AE30-(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
> >
> > I have been archiving my e-mails but when I went to retrive an e-mail the
> > program it is trying to open with is adobe. What program should I be opening
> > with and how do I retrieve my e-mails now?
>
>
>

As long as the file is a proper pst-file, you should have no issues opening
it via;
File-> Open-> Outlook Data File...

As this is done from within Outlook, it does not matter which other
application has been assigned the default for the pst-extension.
Have you scanned the pst-file for errors already with scanpst.exe? It might
be that somehow it got damaged in the process.
See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/77

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"cestissubway9" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:A2597CEF-299D-4437-B0F8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I tried that already but it doesn't work. I started around the first of
> August archiving my e-mails into my external hard drive. I was able to
> open
> it once but now it will not open. The file is still a pst file but it was
> trying to open with Adobe. i finally got the program to open it with
> changed
> to Microsoft Outlook but when i try to open it says it cannot find the
> file
> and for me to very the path.
>
> "Dan" wrote:
>
>> open it in outlook, go File/Open/Outlook Data File, it shows up as a
>> folder in the folder list
>>
>> In article <13CB6237-442E-4353-AE30-(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> >
>> > I have been archiving my e-mails but when I went to retrive an e-mail
>> > the
>> > program it is trying to open with is adobe. What program should I be
>> > opening
>> > with and how do I retrieve my e-mails now?
>>
>>
>>

"cestissubway9" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:13CB6237-442E-4353-AE30-(E-Mail Removed)...

>I have been archiving my e-mails but when I went to retrive an e-mail the
> program it is trying to open with is adobe. What program should I be opening
> with and how do I retrieve my e-mails now?

You cannot open a PST by double-clicking it in Windows Explorer. You can open
it only in Outlook with File>Open>Outlook Data File.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]