Archivine emails

[Geoff]

Hi, I am trying to burn my archived .pst emails to a disc to eleviate spce on
my computer. No matter how I try and do it, I cannot reopen the archived
folder from CD as it says I don't have permissions. Does anyone know how I
can burn emails to CD and have the ability to open them from the CD if needed?

Thanks

 

[BillR - MVP]

You need to copy the archive to your drive and remove the read-only
attribute to access it. Outlook needs write access to open PST files.

 

[Geoff]

Bill,
Thanks. I tried this, checked the properties before burning to disk, but for
some reason it is locked to read only once burnt. Once I cope it back to my c
drive I can open them, which proves your theory right, as the attributes are
now not read only. Do you know how I can burn to disc without the attributes
going to read only? Thanks

 

[BillR - MVP]

no. you need to copy it back. discs only have the write access when being
burnt. Packet writing software might be a workaround. I've used it but not
for quite some time.