Outlook2003 does not recognise his products

[Giamber]

Hallo gentlemen

I had to fully format the hd and firstly I saved the files *.pst.

Once rebuilt the system I've been trying to load up old emails
data but till now the message I get from the application is that the
file i select is not an outlook file.
I am sure that this problem is not due to a file corruption as I made
several copies of the original outlook.pst on cdrom and on usb memory

Any suggestion?
Many thanks

Giamber

 

[Milly Staples]

If you are trying to open a .pst file you saved on a CD, you need to move it
to your hard drive and remove the Read-only attribute from its properties.

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[DL]

Depends perhaps, as to where the pst is located, how you copied it and how
you are attempting to open it

 

[Giamber]

Hallo Milly
many thanks to replay

If you are trying to open a .pst file you saved on a CD, you need to move it
to your hard drive and remove the Read-only attribute from its properties.

I did copy the file on an identical created directory and I checked
that the read-only attribute was unchecked...
In the past I never needed to do that...
It seems to me a structural or system boundary as I have tried now to
pick up the new one *.pst an place it on an other pc: it behaved the
same way: file not recognized as outlook file!!

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I did copy the file on an identical created directory and I checked
that the read-only attribute was unchecked...
In the past I never needed to do that...
It seems to me a structural or system boundary as I have tried now to
pick up the new one *.pst an place it on an other pc: it behaved the
same way: file not recognized as outlook file!!

It's likely that whatever process you used to make the PST copy was flawed and
the PST is no longer usable.