Install the Personal Folders Backup Tools?
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Please do not spam asked:

| I have a similar problem to what is described below--I did check the
| Task Manager and, on the Processes tab, it does NOT show outlook.exe.
| I had closed down the computer and rebooted and the first action was
| to try to copy Outlook 2003 mail (outlook.pst size shown as 214,384
| k). I am using Windows XP Home Edition.
|
| Do you know what else could be causing the problem? I would like to
| be able to back up my email file--is there another way to back it up?
|
|| 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."
||
|| I have rebooted, but that doesn't fix the problem.
||
|| By the way, the outlook.ps is large, slightly over 4 GB.
||
|| Any suggestions?
||
|| Thanks,
|| Bill Edelstein
|| Baltimore