If you are trying to open a .pst file you saved on a CD, you need to move it
to your hard drive and remove the Read-only attribute from its properties.

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"Giamber" wrote in message
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Hallo gentlemen

I had to fully format the hd and firstly I saved the files *.pst.

Once rebuilt the system I've been trying to load up old emails
data but till now the message I get from the application is that the
file i select is not an outlook file.
I am sure that this problem is not due to a file corruption as I made
several copies of the original outlook.pst on cdrom and on usb memory

Any suggestion?
Many thanks

Giamber