burn .pst file into a CD

Hello. I have Office 2003 on my WinXP SP2 system.

I tried to burn my 2005 personal.pst file for archiving into a CD. But when
I tried to open it, Outlook 2003 gives me an "Access denied" due to
permission! Is there a workaround this? Does a .pst file have to be in a
hard drive to open it?

I think when I had the older version of Office 2000, I was able to archive
my .pst files into a CD and still able to read it from the archive CD!

Thanks in advance.

"C C" wrote in message
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Hello. I have Office 2003 on my WinXP SP2 system.

I tried to burn my 2005 personal.pst file for archiving into a CD. But
when
I tried to open it, Outlook 2003 gives me an "Access denied" due to
permission! Is there a workaround this? Does a .pst file have to be in a
hard drive to open it?

Yes. Outlook needs read/write access....


I think when I had the older version of Office 2000, I was able to archive
my .pst files into a CD and still able to read it from the archive CD!

You probably were using a CDRW disk, formatted for packet writing, in
otherwords it acted just like a very big floppy disk....

C C wrote:

Hello. I have Office 2003 on my WinXP SP2 system.

I tried to burn my 2005 personal.pst file for archiving into a CD. But
when I tried to open it, Outlook 2003 gives me an "Access denied"
due to permission! Is there a workaround this? Does a .pst file
have to be in a hard drive to open it?

Yes and it must have the Read-Only attribute removed.

I think when I had the older version of Office 2000, I was able to
archive my .pst files into a CD and still able to read it from the
archive CD!

I'd be surprised, but even if it were true, it would be a function of the
drive, not Outlook.
--
Brian Tillman

In my personal experience you cannot open a .PST right from CD with Outlook
2003. You need to copy it directly onto your drive.

"C C" wrote:

Hello. I have Office 2003 on my WinXP SP2 system.

I tried to burn my 2005 personal.pst file for archiving into a CD. But when
I tried to open it, Outlook 2003 gives me an "Access denied" due to
permission! Is there a workaround this? Does a .pst file have to be in a
hard drive to open it?

I think when I had the older version of Office 2000, I was able to archive
my .pst files into a CD and still able to read it from the archive CD!

Thanks in advance.

I'm very much surprised why Outlook does not accept the fact that it is from
a CD and the CD is always Read Only, AND the user just wants to read old
messages from the archive??

"John Gierlach" wrote in message
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In my personal experience you cannot open a .PST right from CD with
Outlook
2003. You need to copy it directly onto your drive.

"C C" wrote:

Hello. I have Office 2003 on my WinXP SP2 system.

I tried to burn my 2005 personal.pst file for archiving into a CD. But
when
I tried to open it, Outlook 2003 gives me an "Access denied" due to
permission! Is there a workaround this? Does a .pst file have to be in
a
hard drive to open it?

I think when I had the older version of Office 2000, I was able to
archive
my .pst files into a CD and still able to read it from the archive CD!

Thanks in advance.

"C C" wrote in message
...
I'm very much surprised why Outlook does not accept the fact that it is
from a CD and the CD is always Read Only, AND the user just wants to read
old messages from the archive??


outlook needs read-write access to the pst file, and always has AFAIK....