Opening archived e-mail

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I would like to archive certain mail for future reference but tested the
archive feature and found I cannot access archived items. The message I get
when I try to open using Word is "archive.pst is locked for editing by
'another user'."
 
robin said:
I would like to archive certain mail for future reference but tested
the archive feature and found I cannot access archived items. The
message I get when I try to open using Word is "archive.pst is locked
for editing by 'another user'."
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Of course it's locked. It's locked by Outlook. Why would you think that
you can view a PST using Word? Can you view a sound file using Notepad?
Certainly not. Using Word to try to view a PST is no different. Outlook is
the application you use to see the contents of a PST.
 
And the command you want to use in Outlook is File | Open | Outlook Data File.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
I would like to archive certain mail for future reference but tested the
archive feature and found I cannot access archived items. The message I get
when I try to open using Word is "archive.pst is locked for editing by
'another user'."
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The only way you can view archived email in a text editor is to export to
a mail client that uses Unix MBox format......Thunderbird comes to mind......
 
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