m not able to import from .pst folder, it gives an error that it i

[Gaurav]

hi everyone
m really stuck up in this n really need your help.
M not able to import my emails and contacts and is showing an error that the
folder that contains the mails and contact is not a personal folder file.
I have thousands of important mails and contacts in that and m not able to
access them.
Please help
Regards
Gaurav

 

[Coigné Guillaume]

you can use scanpst.exe to correct possible corruption on the file

Kr,
Guillaume

 

[Gordon]

hi everyone
m really stuck up in this n really need your help.
M not able to import my emails and contacts and is showing an error that
the
folder that contains the mails and contact is not a personal folder file.
I have thousands of important mails and contacts in that and m not able to
access them.
Please help
Regards
Gaurav

As posted here and in all the Outlook groups at LEAST once a day - do NOT
use the import function to transfer data from one Outlook to another.
Copy the pst file to a folder where you have full permissions (your
Documents folder is a favourite), remove any Read-Only attribute, then in
outlook do File-Open-Outlook Data File and navigate to where you put it.
If that still doesn't work, then we must presume that the pst file is
corrupted. Did you use the export function in your previous Outlook? (That's
usually a good bet....)

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

you can use scanpst.exe to correct possible corruption on the file

If Outlook says the PST is not a PST, then SCANPST is likely to say that as
well.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

m really stuck up in this n really need your help.
M not able to import my emails and contacts and is showing an error that the
folder that contains the mails and contact is not a personal folder file.
I have thousands of important mails and contacts in that and m not able to
access them.

How did you create this PST, how did you transport it to the PC where it now
resides? If Outlook says it's not a Personal Folders file, then chances are
good that it's trash. You'll have to use a recent backup.