Office 2007 (beta) vs. Windows Vista (beta)

[Guest]

I am trying Outlook 2007 with Windows Vista (I know... two bads don't make a
good) Anyway when I try to import my settings from Office 2000, I get an
error message: "File access is denied. You don't have the permission
required to access the file backup.pst". I tried taking ownership of the
file but that doesn't seem to help. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help out there...

Bob

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Where is the file currently located? What settings are you trying to import and how?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Which Vista build?

Patrick Schmid

 

[Guest]

I'm using Vista Beta 2 build 5384 and trying to import the "backup.pst" file
from Outlook 2000. The file is located in the root directory of the Vista
drive. (I'm running a dual-boot system with WindowsXP on one drive and Vista
on the other...
The .pst file has all my personal folders created in Outlook 2000.

Bob

 

[Guest]

Build 5384... Running Vista beta2 in dual-boot configuration.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Try copying that file to a new folder that you create, preferably on a partition accessible to both operating systems. Then, don't import the copy. Use the File | Open | Outlook data file command. Let us know what happens.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Never import a native Outlook file. Simply use File->Open->Outlook data
file.

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After furious head scratching, bnortham asked:

| I'm using Vista Beta 2 build 5384 and trying to import the
| "backup.pst" file from Outlook 2000. The file is located in the root
| directory of the Vista drive. (I'm running a dual-boot system with
| WindowsXP on one drive and Vista on the other...
| The .pst file has all my personal folders created in Outlook 2000.
|
| Bob
|
| "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Where is the file currently located? What settings are you trying to
|| import and how?
||
|| --
|| Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
|| Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
||
|| and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
|| Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
||
||
|| ||| I am trying Outlook 2007 with Windows Vista (I know... two bads
||| don't make a good) Anyway when I try to import my settings from
||| Office 2000, I get an error message: "File access is denied. You
||| don't have the permission required to access the file backup.pst".
||| I tried taking ownership of the file but that doesn't seem to help.
||| Any ideas?
|||
||| Thanks in advance for any help out there...
|||
||| Bob

 

[Guest]

Thank you! That worked...
Thanks to both you and Milly.
You were right. It would let me do anything with it until I moved it into a
newly created folder.

 

[Ron Guthrie]

Thank you! That worked...
Thanks to both you and Milly.
You were right. It would let me do anything with it until I moved it into a
newly created folder.

I found just by copying the file to the default store locations for
pst's I was able to both open and import the files with out errors
I had my pst on a second hard disk and it was created with OL2003 and
backed up there