Archive error - "not a valid pst file"?

[StargateFan]

The error is:

"Error while archiving folder "Calendar" in store "Personal Folders".
The file .../archive.pst is not a personal folders file."

I thought it might be a problem with the length of the path but can't
seem to fix that even if this is the case. Even when I replace the
travelled-to path with an 8.3 one, next time I open O2K it's been
converted to an LFN. So can't tell if this would fix it. Whenever I
have issues when opening files/folders in this and other Office
programs, the 8.3 trick usu. does the job (i.e., if path to default
templates causes problems, usu. using 8.3 vs LFN does the job).

I googled, of course, for help but nothing pertinent came up. Hoping
someone here knows what to do re the above error. TIA.

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

First thing to try is to run ScanPST.EXE on that PST file to see if anything
bad has happened to it.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Check that the PST is not set to Read-Only.
How large is the PST and which version of Outlook are you using?
lastly, run scanpst.exe on the archive PST.

 

[Brian Tillman]

The error is:

"Error while archiving folder "Calendar" in store "Personal Folders".
The file .../archive.pst is not a personal folders file."

As Vince says, try SCANPST.EXE. Chances are, though, that if you see this
error, the PST is damaged beyond repair.

 

[StargateFan]

Check that the PST is not set to Read-Only.
How large is the PST and which version of Outlook are you using?
lastly, run scanpst.exe on the archive PST.

Kewl, I didn't know about ScanPst. I found that on my hdd and then
ran it on my archive.pst. It didn't find any errors. Odd.

The weird thing is that this is a brand new installation after an hdd
wipe. So the file itself wouldn't be critical at this point. Don't
know if I did well to do this, but since everything checked out with
the file yet the error was appearing consistently, I decided to just
delete the file. No error message this morning so far and the
archive.pst file has already been re-created so will just hang tight
and see what happens.

Tx! D