If you copied from cd to hd you need to browse to the file in Explorer,
select properties and turn off the read only flag.
If however in copying the file you overwrote an existing pst you may have
corrupted the file & or any outlook profile

"Justin" wrote in message
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when tring to open a pst file i get error message "this file is not a
personal folders file". just worked through coping from cd because of
access
denied issue. what am I doing wrong? thanks.