outlook 2002 won't recognize pst file

[david Vos]

outlook 2002 on XP home won't recognize pst file copied from Outlook 2002 on
XP Pro. Error messages " **.pst is not a compatable version of Personal
Folders Information service

 

[Gordon]

outlook 2002 on XP home won't recognize pst file copied from Outlook 2002
on
XP Pro. Error messages " **.pst is not a compatable version of Personal
Folders Information service

Did you copy the pst file with Outlook still running? How did you transfer
the pst file?

 

[david Vos]

Did you copy the pst file with Outlook still running? How did you transfer
the pst file?

No. On the XP Pro machine, the pst was found after a search and copied to hard drive then burned to CD. CD copied to my PC (XP home). Note when an archive pst file was similarly transferred to another PC it opened, but the 'outlook.pst' primary file would not even copy (I/O error, 1.5GB pst file). On my XP home PC both would copy but neither is recognized as a pst.

 

[David Webb]

Comments inline...

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| "Gordon" wrote:
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| > | > > outlook 2002 on XP home won't recognize pst file copied from Outlook 2002
| > > on
| > > XP Pro. Error messages " **.pst is not a compatable version of Personal
| > > Folders Information service
| >
| >
| > Did you copy the pst file with Outlook still running? How did you transfer
| > the pst file?
| >
| > No. On the XP Pro machine, the pst was found after a search and copied to
hard
| > drive then burned to CD. CD copied to my PC (XP home). Note when an archive
| > pst file was similarly transferred to another PC it opened, but the
'outlook.pst'
| > primary file would not even copy (I/O error, 1.5GB pst file).

Most likely caused by the file being larger than capacity of CD.

| > On my XP home PC both would copy but neither is recognized as a pst.

Outlook will not recognize a PST file with read-only attributes. Remove the
read-only attribute from the file(s) and then try again.

 

[DL]

An OL pst (pre OL2003 unicode format) at 1.5gb is perilously close to the
size at which problems can occur
If you still have access to OL on the old PC I would create a new archive
and move a substantial amount of data, then compact.
I would also run scanpst.exe on it, several times, before attempting the
copy process again

to hard drive then burned to CD. CD copied to my PC (XP home). Note when an
archive pst file was similarly transferred to another PC it opened, but the
'outlook.pst' primary file would not even copy (I/O error, 1.5GB pst file).
On my XP home PC both would copy but neither is recognized as a pst.