On Oct 10, 11:00 pm, "F. H. Muffman" wrote:
"resonator80" wrote in message

ps.com...

I am using Office 2003 on Windows XP.

Periodically I copy oulook.ps to an external hard drive as a backup.

When I try to do it now, I get the message "Cannot copy outlook: The
process cannot access the file because another process has locked a
portion of the file."
It was the Balckberry sync. I closed those down and was able to copy
outlook.ps to my external HD.

Thanks,
Bill Edelstein
Baltimore, MD


I have rebooted, but that doesn't fix the problem.

By the way, the outlook.ps is large, slightly over 4 GB.

Any suggestions?

Open up Task Manager and see if Outlook.exe is on the Processes tab. If it
is, figure out what application is starting it. It could be a Blackberry
sync, it could be an A/V software with Outlook hooks. At least, I'm
assuming you aren't starting Outlook after rebooting. If you are, ...
well.. don't.
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f.h.