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[Guest]

I recently found that my pre-installed Windows XP pro was illegal, so I went
and bought Windows XP Home, saved everything, reformatted my C&D drives and
reloaded everything. Everything except my emails. I saved them as personal
*.pst files but they are now appearing as "office data files" and I am told I
do not have permission to access them so I cannot reload them into microsoft
outlook (2002 xp pro). Any ideas?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I recently found that my pre-installed Windows XP pro was illegal, so
I went and bought Windows XP Home, saved everything, reformatted my
C&D drives and reloaded everything. Everything except my emails. I
saved them as personal *.pst files but they are now appearing as
"office data files" and I am told I do not have permission to access
them so I cannot reload them into microsoft outlook (2002 xp pro).
Any ideas?

Take ownership of them. See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421

 

[Gordon]

I recently found that my pre-installed Windows XP pro was illegal, so I
went
and bought Windows XP Home, saved everything, reformatted my C&D drives
and
reloaded everything. Everything except my emails. I saved them as
personal
*.pst files but they are now appearing as "office data files" and I am
told I
do not have permission to access them so I cannot reload them into
microsoft
outlook (2002 xp pro). Any ideas?

Where are these files you are trying to access?

 

[Guest]

Did you back up on a CD? If so , it's read-only as long it's on the CD.

 

[Guest]

Yes, I backed it up on a cd but have transferred the file onto my desktop.
If I try to open from there I get "(file location.pst) is not a personal
folders file.

 

[Guest]

Gordon, thanks for your reply, I saved them on to a cd but have since
transferred them back on to my desktop.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Brian
I logged off, logged back on in safe mode to get the adminstrator access but
when viewing "properties" I "didn't get a security tab".

 

[Brian Tillman]

I logged off, logged back on in safe mode to get the adminstrator
access but when viewing "properties" I "didn't get a security tab".

If the disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Yes, I backed it up on a cd but have transferred the file onto my
desktop. If I try to open from there I get "(file location.pst) is
not a personal folders file.

Make sure you remove the read-only attribute. If after doingso it still
won't open, you're screwed. The process you used to transfer them to CD in
the first place has ruined them beyond repair.

 

[Guest]

Formatted as NTFS. Having read some of the earlier postings, I think I may
have found another issue that might be the cause. The Outlook I am now using
is older than the one that I had on my computer previously (that was also
illegal!). Is it possible that I can go to my office computer (which has a
later version of Outlook) and convert them to the 1997-220 version?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Formatted as NTFS. Having read some of the earlier postings, I think
I may have found another issue that might be the cause. The Outlook
I am now using is older than the one that I had on my computer
previously (that was also illegal!). Is it possible that I can go to
my office computer (which has a later version of Outlook) and
convert them to the 1997-220 version?

If you have access to Outlook 2003, you can convert them. In OL 2003, click
File>New>Outlook Data File>Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File
(.pst)>Next. Create the file. When you have it, right-click each folder in
the 2003-format PST and choose Copy. Specify the root of the old-format PST
as the destination. When you've copied all the folders, right-click>Close
the old-format PST and close Outlook. Now you can safely copy that PST to
the system with the earlier Outlook and open it there.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Brian, I'll give it a go tomorrow!

If you have access to Outlook 2003, you can convert them. In OL 2003, click
File>New>Outlook Data File>Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File
(.pst)>Next. Create the file. When you have it, right-click each folder in
the 2003-format PST and choose Copy. Specify the root of the old-format PST
as the destination. When you've copied all the folders, right-click>Close
the old-format PST and close Outlook. Now you can safely copy that PST to
the system with the earlier Outlook and open it there.