Moving .pst folder to new computer

[jetturner2001]

I am trying to move my Outlook .pst file to a new computer. I have set up a
network, but the network does not seem to want to recognize the folder that
contains Outlook as Shared. No idea why, but I figured, OK, I'll just copy it
to an external hard drive and then connect that hard drive to the new
computer and import the data.
Here is the problem. I cannot copy the folder, which is LARGE (600 something
mb) because I get the message that the file cannot be accessed because
another process has locked a portion of the file.
What does that mean? And how do i fix it?
Thanks for any and all suggestions

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am trying to move my Outlook .pst file to a new computer. I have
set up a network, but the network does not seem to want to recognize
the folder that contains Outlook as Shared. No idea why, but I
figured, OK, I'll just copy it to an external hard drive and then
connect that hard drive to the new computer and import the data.
Here is the problem. I cannot copy the folder, which is LARGE (600
something mb) because I get the message that the file cannot be
accessed because another process has locked a portion of the file.
What does that mean? And how do i fix it?

First, make sure Outlook is not running. Then if any desktop search
programs are running (Google or Windows Desktop Search), modify them to
exclude mail.

 

[DL]

Outlook is closed?
You checked under Task Manager, Running Processes tab for outlook.exe?
You have a desktop search tool indexing your data file?

PS You dont Import native OL data, you open the data file within Outlook