I have just had a look and the Read Only box was not checked. The Archive
box was checked so I un-checked it, but it made no difference. I still get
the message "The operation failed. An object could not be found".

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Have you removed the 'read-only" check mark from that .pst's properties?

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After furious head scratching, RogerUK wrote:

| On a memory stick. I copy the file from my work computer onto my home
| computer so I can synchronise with my PDA.
|
| "Gordon" wrote:
|
|| "RogerUK" wrote in message
|| ...
||| It's the very first step that I can't do. If I try to open the
||| file from Outlook I get a message "The operation failed. An object
||| cannot be found." That;'s what is foxing me.
||
|| Where is this file?