Transferring 1000 emails from one user to another user

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In Search of Help

I coworker of mine is out of state and needs to transfer about 1000 emails
from their outlook email account to my email account. What is a quick and
easy way to do this so that she still has the emails in her account and I
have a copy in my account? Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
 
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Roady [MVP]

Hard to say without any details.
Version of Outlook?
Type of mail account?
Total size of emails?
Connection possibilities?
 
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Pat Willener

Create a new PST file.
Drag-and-drop the 1000 emails to the new PST file (use right-click
drag-and-drop to choose between Copy and Move).
Transfer the PST file to your computer (make sure that the read-only
attribute is not set when using a read-only media for transport).
Open the PST file with Outlook.
 
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In Search of Help

I am using Microsoft Outlook 2003
I do not know the total file size of the 1000 emails - I'll guess 3 - 7 MB.

To test out the suggestion I clicked "File" > "New" > "Outlook Data File"
and made a Office Outlook Personal Folders File.

Then I used "Edit" > "Copy to Folder..." to copy files into the folder.

I can see the files in the new personal folder.

Then I went directly to the pst file and tried to zip it but got an error
that it can't be read. I closed outlook and tried again to zip the pst file
but got the same error. Then I tried to attach the pst file to an outlook
email and got an error that operation failed.

Any ideas as to why I would receive these errors? Are the steps that I am
taking previously correct?

Thank you!
 
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Roady [MVP]

Verify that the outlook.exe process actually quits after closing Outlook
otherwise there still is a lock on the pst-file.
 
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