It means that another running program has locked the file. It could be as
simple as antivirus to something as complex as a backup program.

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m wrote in message
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"neo [mvp outlook]" wrote:

Make sure that you have full control of the file and that it isn't marked
read only.

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m wrote in message
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"neo [mvp outlook]" wrote:

Try the following.

1) Start Outlook
2) Select File Open Outlook Data file (Outlook 2002/2003)
or
Select File Open Personal Folders (Outlook 97/2000)
3) Use the open file dialog to open the old PST
4) In the folder list you should see your old PST, at this point you
can
copy the contents of the contacts folder from the old folder to the
new
one.

5) If you elected to copy data from old to new and you have finished
plucking out what you want to keep, you can close the old PST by right
clicking on Personal Folders and select Close/Disconnect.

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m wrote in message
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Hi.
My problem is as follows: My hard drive crashed. I installed a new
one
I
re installed Microsoft Outlook on the new drive, and made my old
drive
a
slave. I am able to acess my outlook .pst folder with all my
contacts
on
it.
When I copy and paste the .pst folder to my new Microsoft Outlook
install,
no contacts show up when I try to use it normally. What am I doing
wrong?


Th problem is I an't open the old PST file. says," Acess Denied, I'm
not
authorized".. Please adsvise.

I checked to see if it was a read only file and it's not. I again tried
to
open the file and the message comes up as follows: " The process cannot
acess the file because another process has locked a portion of the file" .
What other process are they referring too? Pleas advise.