archive trying to open with adobe as a pdf

[cestissubway9]

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?

 

[Dan]

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

 

[cestissubway9]

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.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

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

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

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.