Reinstalled OL2002; won't recognized copied .PST file

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Raising4Daughters

Like many others, I had to wipe my hard drive clean via system recovery.

I copied the OL (2002) .PST file as part of my back up. After reinstalling
everything on the clean computer, OL won't recognize the prior OL file. I
receive the error message "Not a personal folders file" yet it has the .PST
extension.

Were there other files I should've copied? Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Scott
 
P

Pat Willener

How did you "copy" the file? On a read-only medium, perhaps? If so,
clear the read-only attribute from the file. If not, please give more
details.
 
B

Brian Tillman

Raising4Daughters said:
I copied the OL (2002) .PST file as part of my back up. After
reinstalling everything on the clean computer, OL won't recognize the
prior OL file. I receive the error message "Not a personal folders
file" yet it has the .PST extension.
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In most cases, if you get that message, it means that whatever method you
used to copy the PST has damaged it, often beyond repair.
 
D

Diane Poremsky

did you copy the past back to the hard drive and change the read only flag
to read/write access?
 

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