Gordon said:
No! That's the fastes way to a corruipt pst.
Copy it to somewhere other than the default location. remove any Read-Only
attribute. (Right-click-properties).
then you have two choices -
1. Either set the old pst as the default mail location, (Control
Panel-Mail-Data Files) or
2. in Outlook go to File-Open-Outlook Data File, navigate to where you
copied it to, and drag the data to the new file.
HTH
JLS observes:
Reluctant use of dragand drop!
Several days ago I reported trying to retrieve inbox, outbox, personal
folders, and contact address data, lost for no obvious reason from Outlook
2003. Subsequently I followed the instructions in the comprehensive “back-up
and restore†document, (thank you Robert Sparniij)and having found six “.pstâ€
files I made back-up files on the D-drive, and on an external stick. BUT the
transfer process resulted in a loop. The program asked me for a password as a
condition of transferring the data back to the navigation pane. Thus:
File> open> Outlook data file > [then appeared a list as follows] Archive,
Outlook, Outlook1, Personal Folders, Personal Folders, XCardList. But the
program then asked me to “type a PASSWORD†which I do not have. So I was
stuck…
Two days later, I read HTH’s wicked proposal to drag and drop,
I gave it a try. It worked. But though currently nearly all the data is back
and accessible from the navigation pane, there remain glitches in the
Contacts folder. More serious I do not know how the problem occurred, and I
have no confidence that data will not be lost in the future.
Thank you.
JLS