burn .pst file into a CD

[C C]

Hello. I have Office 2003 on my WinXP SP2 system.

I tried to burn my 2005 personal.pst file for archiving into a CD. But when
I tried to open it, Outlook 2003 gives me an "Access denied" due to
permission! Is there a workaround this? Does a .pst file have to be in a
hard drive to open it?

I think when I had the older version of Office 2000, I was able to archive
my .pst files into a CD and still able to read it from the archive CD!

Thanks in advance.

 

[Gordon]

Hello. I have Office 2003 on my WinXP SP2 system.

I tried to burn my 2005 personal.pst file for archiving into a CD. But
when
I tried to open it, Outlook 2003 gives me an "Access denied" due to
permission! Is there a workaround this? Does a .pst file have to be in a
hard drive to open it?

Yes. Outlook needs read/write access....

I think when I had the older version of Office 2000, I was able to archive
my .pst files into a CD and still able to read it from the archive CD!

You probably were using a CDRW disk, formatted for packet writing, in
otherwords it acted just like a very big floppy disk....

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hello. I have Office 2003 on my WinXP SP2 system.

I tried to burn my 2005 personal.pst file for archiving into a CD. But
when I tried to open it, Outlook 2003 gives me an "Access denied"
due to permission! Is there a workaround this? Does a .pst file
have to be in a hard drive to open it?

Yes and it must have the Read-Only attribute removed.

I think when I had the older version of Office 2000, I was able to
archive my .pst files into a CD and still able to read it from the
archive CD!

I'd be surprised, but even if it were true, it would be a function of the
drive, not Outlook.

 

[John Gierlach]

In my personal experience you cannot open a .PST right from CD with Outlook
2003. You need to copy it directly onto your drive.

 

[C C]

I'm very much surprised why Outlook does not accept the fact that it is from
a CD and the CD is always Read Only, AND the user just wants to read old
messages from the archive??

 

[Gordon]

I'm very much surprised why Outlook does not accept the fact that it is
from a CD and the CD is always Read Only, AND the user just wants to read
old messages from the archive??

outlook needs read-write access to the pst file, and always has AFAIK....