when is a pst file NOT a personal folders file

[Guest]

Outlook 2003 at work. XP at home.
1. File - exprot calendar (and separately for contacts) to pst fil
2. on CD to work
3. Copy files (ie calendar and contacts) to hard drive and make sure they are not read onl
4. check the properties of each file - if i right click on the file i get the info that they are "Office Data Files" which open with an unknown application. If i view details they are .pst files
5. Change the association to open these files with outloo

6 PROBLEM: no matter how i try to open the files, i get a message saying the file C:/.../.../.../.pst cannot be opened as it is not a personal folders file.........I have tried using the file - open way or the import - search for the folder wa

HELP please - going mad

 

[GregB]

It would appear that you can't open a PST that way. You must use Outlook's
File > Open > Outlook Data File command.

BondG

Outlook 2003 at work. XP at home.
1. File - exprot calendar (and separately for contacts) to pst file
2. on CD to work
3. Copy files (ie calendar and contacts) to hard drive and make sure they are not read only
4. check the properties of each file - if i right click on the file i get

the info that they are "Office Data Files" which open with an unknown
application. If i view details they are .pst files.

5. Change the association to open these files with outlook

6 PROBLEM: no matter how i try to open the files, i get a message saying

the file C:/.../.../.../.pst cannot be opened as it is not a personal
folders file.........I have tried using the file - open way or the import -
search for the folder way

 

[Guest]

Oops, so worked up that i forgot to mention that i ried that too

Have also tried the inbox repair tool which tells me the file isnt a pst (even though the properties of the file ie right click properties - tell me it is

AAAAARGH

 

[QN]

Try exporting it to a different format other than pst. Then use
import/export in Outlook. (File -> import/export)

Oops, so worked up that i forgot to mention that i ried that too.

Have also tried the inbox repair tool which tells me the file isnt a pst

(even though the properties of the file ie right click properties - tell me
it is)

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It's more likely a problem with versioning - Outlook 2003 supports Unicode
pst's and when it exports, it exports to Unicode. Outlook 2002 needs the
older ansi format pst and can't read the outlook 2003 one.

He'll need to create an OL2002 format pst on the 2003 machine - file, new,
outlook data file - choosing outlook 97-2002 format, then copy the items to
it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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[Guest]

Thank you for all your help.

Problem is the other way around though. that is i am
trying to get from xp to 2003 and not into xp.

Any advice

-----Original Message-----
It's more likely a problem with versioning - Outlook 2003 supports Unicode
pst's and when it exports, it exports to Unicode. Outlook 2002 needs the
older ansi format pst and can't read the outlook 2003 one.

He'll need to create an OL2002 format pst on the 2003 machine - file, new,
outlook data file - choosing outlook 97-2002 format, then copy the items to
it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
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It would appear that you can't open a PST that way.

You must use
Outlook's

File > Open > Outlook Data File command.

BondG

drive and make sure
they

are not read only

click on the file i
get

the info that they are "Office Data Files" which open with an unknown
application. If i view details they are .pst files. get a message saying
the file C:/.../.../.../.pst cannot be opened as it is not a personal
folders file.........I have tried using the file - open

way or the
import -

search for the folder way

.

 

[BondG]

This would be because Windows only "casually" looks at the file and notices
its .pst extension. When you actually peek into the file with an app
(Outlook, scanpst, etc) the app notices the file doesn't conform to .pst
conventions/formats and complains to you.

Perhaps a dumb question, but have you re-exported and tried again? QN's
suggestion of Exporting the data to some other format is probably best.

--
BondG

Oops, so worked up that i forgot to mention that i ried that too.

Have also tried the inbox repair tool which tells me the file isnt a pst

(even though the properties of the file ie right click properties - tell me
it is)