I did provide information. I provided that I have the SAME problem as Sam
and that the file opens on another computer and that I did the basic things
like turn off read-only and checked permissions.

What I'm adding here is that there is soemthing different about Vista and
Outlook. Brian replied that the files should be opened and not imported.
It's not a simple solution like that,. There is something mouch more going
on here.

Maybe local admin privs are needed or something like that that I have
missed. My main point is that it's not a simple thing. All the simple things
have been done. I create a lot of PST files and they always open. I just
moved to Vista and Office 2007 and this is the first time I tried opening a
PST and it gave the error Sam mentioned.

I was just thinking that this was some simple new problem that manifests
itself when Vista and Outlook 2007 are used and that someone would know what
the answer is. I've checked the Internet and all the resolutions are the
basic "turn off read-only" flag and put the file in a folder that is
read-write capcable. I've done all this and there must be some permissions
that have stuck with the file when it was burned to DVD or my local account
on Vista doesn't have permissions to open the file for some strange reason.
Whereas on another computer with Xo and OL2K3 it can open the file fine.

Frank





"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

What's strange is that you provided no information, and yet posted here as
if you wanted us to help. How you created the file, how you transported it,
how you tried to open it, what happened when you tried, and error messages
would seem the minimum information you should have provided.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"boecherer" wrote in message
...
I have the same problem. I copied from CD to HDD and turned off the READ
ONLY flag. The file opens OK on a computer that has Windows XP and Office
2003. There is something different about Vista and OL2K7. I checked
owenership and file permissions and moved the file to a temp folder, to my
document folder, etc. and it would just not open.

There's something else strange going on here.

Frank


"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Sam wrote:

I'm unable to import Outlook 2000 archived pst file into Office 2007
after upgrading my laptop to Vista from XP and Microsoft Office to
2007 from 2000.
The attempt to open the pst file fails with the message: "File access
denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file."

First, forget importing from a PST. That's never a good idea. Just OPEN
the PST with FileOpenOutlook Data File.

To do that, however, you must copy the PST to the hard drive and remove
the
read-only attribute. The message you see is typical of a write-protected
PST.
--
Brian Tillman