O2003 on XP Home - External Drive

[srm]

I have Outlook 2003 on XP Prof at work and XP Home at home. At work, I
have my PST file on my hard drive. I make to make a copy to my
external drive. When I run Outlook 2003 at Home (using XP Home) and
try to access the PST file on the external drive, I get a message
saying File Access denied.

I am a computer Administrator on the XP Home machine.

I tried sharing the PST file, but no luck.

The file does not have a Read Only attribute, but the folder it is in
does. When I uncheck the read only attirbute, and go back to
properties, the attribute is set again.

I'm assuming I can use a PST file on a external drive. Correct?
Assuming yes, what am I mising?

Thanks

Shawn

 

[srm]

I tried my laptop which has XP Pro and O2003. The PST file opens with
no problems. Am I running into a limitation on XP Home (or a setting)
and/or O2003 with XP Home?

Thank you

Shawn

 

[DL]

Did you merely copy the pst or did you copy the containing Folder to your
external?

 

[srm]

Thanks. I used RSYNC and copy the Whole file each time. It works
fine with my laptop that has XP Pro, so I'm assuming the PST file is
OK. I also did a binary compare and the files are identical (the
from/to PST file). Any ideas.

Shawn

 

[DL]

Its safer to copy a pst using IE and simply copy / paste (Ensuring OL is
closed)
I cannot think of any reason as to why your Home installation cannot connect
to the pst
Presumably you access it within OL by File>Open>Data File and browse to the
location?

 

[srm]

Thanks. I too cannot think of a reason. With the PST file, I use
RSYNC and always copy the entire file (not parts). Since I did a
binary check and also MD5 check sum and everything matched the files
are identical. Why it doesn't work with XP Home, I'm kind of lost.

Thanks for your help.

Shawn

 

[DL]

*Copy* the pst on your external to another location, a new folder if
neccessary, ensure any read only is off.
Then in OL, File>Open>Data File ... see if you get the same error

 

[srm]

Thank you. I copied the folder with the PST file, the PST file only,
and each time it worked. I then tried the same with Rsync and it
failed. There must be a bug in the version of Rsync I am using. I
truly apprecaite your help. Thank you.

Shawn

 

[DL]

your welcome