Not a personal folder file

P

Pierre

Hi
I copied my pst folder to cd rom. I reinstalled office and try to import my
pst folder.When I tried to open the folder in Outlook, outlook tells me it is
not a personal file folder.

Please help
 
L

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Pierre said:
Hi
I copied my pst folder to cd rom. I reinstalled office and try to
import my pst folder.When I tried to open the folder in Outlook,
outlook tells me it is not a personal file folder.

Please help
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Copy the PST file to your hard drive in the location you want it to live
(c:\data\outlook). Right click on it in Explorer, remove the read only
attribute. Open Outlook, go to file | open....open the file.
 
P

Pierre

I have done that already.
The read attribute is removed and it still gives the same
message."Outlook.pst is not a personal folder.

I have very important emails in there and I need to retrieve it
 
L

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Pierre said:
I have done that already.
The read attribute is removed and it still gives the same
message."Outlook.pst is not a personal folder.

I have very important emails in there and I need to retrieve it
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Run scanpst.exe against it & see if it finds errors.
How did you copy the file/burn the CD?
 
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