Roll back your system clock and export.
The beta clearly stated that it would expire either November 30 (beta 2) or
January 31, 2004. I fail to see where this was a surprise. Addtionally,
after the Office package released to manufacturing and was available at
retail (October 21 for most of the Office System programs) your license to
run the beta also expired.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
Neil Ruda <
[email protected]> asked:
| Yes, we paid attention. But as I discovered this morning, when the
| beta version expires, it gives absolutely no warning whatsoever, and
| the only option it gives is to uninstall the application! The menu
| choice for Data File Management is grayed out, so we are unable to
| export the PST file to 97-2002 version. So now I have my previous
| Office XP and Outlook installed, and absolutely no way to get at the
| OL2003 PST file.
|
| Neil Ruda
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || You need to export your 2003 .pst file to a 97-2002 compatible .pst
|| file in
|| Outlook 2003 and then use that one for prior versions of Outlook.
||
|| When you installed the beta, there was a warning that the new .pst
|| file was
|| incompatible with prior versions of Outlook. Didn't anyone pay
|| attention???
||
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the SWEN virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|| without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Eric Prenen
|| asked:
||
||| Ashley wrote:
|||
|||| I am trying to open a data file in Outlook 2002 and I am
|||| getting the following error "xxx.pst is not compatible
|||| with this version of the Personal Folders information
|||| service".
||||
|||| What could be the issue and how could I resolve as I
|||| thought that all personal folders were compatible?
||||
|||| Ashley
|||
||| Same problem here :-(
||| Tried opening an Outlook2003Beta .pst into OutlookOfficeXP,
||| currently without any success.
||| Anyone having ideas on this issue?
|||
||| Thanks,
|||
||| Eric
