Copy the .pst file from the CD to your hard drive. Turn off the read-only flag for the hard drive copy. Then open it with Outlook.

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"Wen" wrote in message ...
preserved on a cd which i inserted and pointed to via the "browse " button.

"Wen" wrote:

i am trying to download my email data that i preserved before shutting down
the old computer. and i keep getting a message that says: "you do not have
permission to access these file" and i am the administrator of the computer.