PST file

[Drew Boardman]

I have a new problem. I have copied my old pst file to CD
as backup and reinstalled Office (same ver. of office) I
have done the following
1. Open the application MS Outlook.
2. Select the menu command: File | Import and Export...
3. Select: Import from other program or file.
4. In the next dialogue, select: file of personal folders
(.pst).
5. Now you need to indicate the complete path for your old
*.pst.message file (the default path is C:\Documents and
Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook
(mine is called outlook2.pst)

And then outlook tellm that it is not a personal folders
file! As it contains all my emails, contacts etc I am quite
eager to get this working, imported, whatever.

Thanks

Drew

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

First, did you move this file to your hard drive and remove its read only
attribute?
Second, do not import PST files. Open them.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
First, did you move this file to your hard drive and remove its read only
attribute?
Second, do not import PST files. Open them.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I have a new problem. I have copied my old pst file to CD
as backup and reinstalled Office (same ver. of office) I
have done the following
1. Open the application MS Outlook.
2. Select the menu command: File | Import and Export...
3. Select: Import from other program or file.
4. In the next dialogue, select: file of personal folders
(.pst).
5. Now you need to indicate the complete path for your old
*.pst.message file (the default path is C:\Documents and
Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook
(mine is called outlook2.pst)

And then outlook tellm that it is not a personal folders
file! As it contains all my emails, contacts etc I am quite
eager to get this working, imported, whatever.

Thanks

Drew

Thanks for responding Russ,

Yes I did remove the read-only attributes, it currently

has none.
It is not possible to open it because I get the same error
message, that it is not a "personal folders file".

Yours

Drew

 

[Drew Boardman]

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Drew

-----Original Message-----

-----Original Message-----
First, did you move this file to your hard drive and remove its read only
attribute?
Second, do not import PST files. Open them.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I have a new problem. I have copied my old pst file to CD
as backup and reinstalled Office (same ver. of office) I
have done the following
1. Open the application MS Outlook.
2. Select the menu command: File | Import and Export...
3. Select: Import from other program or file.
4. In the next dialogue, select: file of personal folders
(.pst).
5. Now you need to indicate the complete path for your old
*.pst.message file (the default path is C:\Documents and
Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook
(mine is called outlook2.pst)

And then outlook tellm that it is not a personal folders
file! As it contains all my emails, contacts etc I am quite
eager to get this working, imported, whatever.

Thanks

Drew

Thanks for responding Russ,

Yes I did remove the read-only attributes, it currently

has none.
It is not possible to open it because I get the same error
message, that it is not a "personal folders file".

Yours

Drew

.

.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Then it appears the file is corrupted. How did you create it? If you created
it by exporting it, you probably corrupted it by copying it to the CD before
you closed Outlook.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

-----Original Message-----
First, did you move this file to your hard drive and remove its read only
attribute?
Second, do not import PST files. Open them.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I have a new problem. I have copied my old pst file to CD
as backup and reinstalled Office (same ver. of office) I
have done the following
1. Open the application MS Outlook.
2. Select the menu command: File | Import and Export...
3. Select: Import from other program or file.
4. In the next dialogue, select: file of personal folders
(.pst).
5. Now you need to indicate the complete path for your old
*.pst.message file (the default path is C:\Documents and
Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook
(mine is called outlook2.pst)

And then outlook tellm that it is not a personal folders
file! As it contains all my emails, contacts etc I am quite
eager to get this working, imported, whatever.

Thanks

Drew

Thanks for responding Russ,

Yes I did remove the read-only attributes, it currently

has none.
It is not possible to open it because I get the same error
message, that it is not a "personal folders file".

Yours

Drew

.