Arcive folders, Unable to display the folder, bad link

[Spencer Hutton]

I have a pst file that i use to archive emails. I keep it on a portable hard
drive so i can read saved emails at work and at home. One day i opened the
pst at home to view my sent items. The next day at work, when i click on the
sent items folder in my pst to view the contents in the reading pane, a
message is displayed, "Unable to display the folder. Microsoft Office Outlook
could not access the specified folder location." I do NOT get the "pst
corrupted" message that instructs you to run scanpst.exe. When i view the
Web toolbar, the address of the folder is not "outlook:\\2008 Archive\***Sent
Items***" it is somethying cryptic,
"outlook:0000000097EA4491E5C3494B867A49C5903B1AA642820000". Scanpst was
unable to recover this folder. at home i run WXP Home and Pro at work. I
think there may be an issue with permissions on the drive, but i believe i
have set the group "everyone" to have all acces rights to it. Please help.

 

[AnotherNewGuy]

Have you tried to close and reopen the file?

 

[Spencer Hutton]

many times

Have you tried to close and reopen the file?

 

[DL]

In exporer are you able to copy this pst to Documents, on your internal
disk, then within Outlook, open that pst?

 

[Spencer Hutton]

i have copied to C drive and tried to open and the same error. i copied to
the c drive on my home computer too and the same thing.

 

[DL]

Then the pst and or your external drive has a problem.

 

[Spencer Hutton]

yes, i know. i ran CHKDSK on the drive and that didnt work. any other
suggestions to try to recover the sent items?

 

[DL]

Only a HD data recovery specialist company - much money required
Personally, FWIW at this stage, I wouldnt reccommend keeping active data on
an external, if no backups of the origonal data are kept elseware