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

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

Depends perhaps, as to where the pst is located, how you copied it and how
you are attempting to open it

"Giamber" wrote in message
...
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

Hallo Milly
many thanks to replay

On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:10:02 -0700, "Milly Staples"
wrote:

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.

I did copy the file on an identical created directory and I checked
that the read-only attribute was unchecked...
In the past I never needed to do that...
It seems to me a structural or system boundary as I have tried now to
pick up the new one *.pst an place it on an other pc: it behaved the
same way: file not recognized as outlook file!!

"Giamber" wrote in message
...

I did copy the file on an identical created directory and I checked
that the read-only attribute was unchecked...
In the past I never needed to do that...
It seems to me a structural or system boundary as I have tried now to
pick up the new one *.pst an place it on an other pc: it behaved the
same way: file not recognized as outlook file!!

It's likely that whatever process you used to make the PST copy was flawed and
the PST is no longer usable.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]