> Are there any other programs that you may know of, that can do the
> magic for me.
You're assuming that these msg-files are correctly formatted then or at
least not damaged ;-)
If you know someone with Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007, then you could ask
him/her to see if they can open it for you.
Since the original sender didn't use Outlook, then it could be that these
are not formatted in the correct format. See if you can open it in Notepad
instead.
The Bat! also uses the msg-format. Perhaps you can open it with that mail
client?
http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/download.php
Otherwise ask the sender which email client you are supposed to open them
with or if he/she can send it to you in another format.
--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
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http://www.msoutlook.info/
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"Associates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thank you Robert(or Roady) for your reply.
>
> If i saved a message from my Outlook 2002 as .msg file on my laptop, i
> could
> open it without any drama.
>
> I must tell you this. Those .msg files that i was unable to open, actually
> came from our backup mail server administered by our colleague. Because i
> want to get my e-mails three years ago back, i asked him to send me those
> e-mails. He used a Squirrelmail webmail to retrieve the emails and
> forwarded
> those mails as attachments. And obviously, now i was unable to open to
> read
> them. Are there any other programs that you may know of, that can do the
> magic for me.
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> "Roady [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> When you save another message as msg-file, can you then open it by double
>> clicking it?
>> If the msg-file was created with Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 then you
>> cannot open it unless the sender saved it in the ANSI format instead of
>> the
>> Unicode format (that is an option when saving a message as msg-file in
>> those
>> versions of Outlook).
>>
>> --
>> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
>> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
>> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
>> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>>
>> http://www.msoutlook.info/
>> Real World Questions, Real World Answers
>>
>> -----
>>
>> "Associates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:01B2CD45-79E3-47A9-BF29-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am having troubled in opening the .msg files to view the content. I
>> > have
>> > office 2002 that has Outlook 2002 in it. What happen was i got an email
>> > coming into my gmail account from a friend of mine (trusted source). I
>> > then
>> > downloaded and saved it into my C-drive. There are 3 emails with .msg
>> > file
>> > extension. My guess is these emails come from Outlook 02 application.
>> > When
>> > i
>> > double-click on one of them, an error message showed up with the
>> > following
>> > message
>> >
>> > Can't open the file ... The file may not exist, you may not have
>> > permission
>> > to open it, or it may be open in another program. Right click the
>> > folder...
>> >
>> > Is there any way of working around this issue?
>> >
>> > By the way, my computer does not have Google Desktop Search installed.
>> > To
>> > confirm this, i went to add/remove program under control panel and did
>> > not
>> > find it there. The only Google i saw was Google update (should i remove
>> > this)
>> >
>> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance
>> >
>>
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