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March 9th 06, 04:37 PM
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Opening archived e-mail
I would like to archive certain mail for future reference but tested the
archive feature and found I cannot access archived items. The message I get when I try to open using Word is "archive.pst is locked for editing by 'another user'." 
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March 9th 06, 06:51 PM
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robin wrote:
I would like to archive certain mail for future reference but tested the archive feature and found I cannot access archived items. The message I get when I try to open using Word is "archive.pst is locked for editing by 'another user'." Of course it's locked. It's locked by Outlook. Why would you think that you can view a PST using Word? Can you view a sound file using Notepad? Certainly not. Using Word to try to view a PST is no different. Outlook is the application you use to see the contents of a PST. -- Brian Tillman
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March 9th 06, 07:07 PM
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Opening archived e-mail
And the command you want to use in Outlook is File | Open | Outlook Data File.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Brian Tillman" wrote in message ... robin wrote: I would like to archive certain mail for future reference but tested the archive feature and found I cannot access archived items. The message I get when I try to open using Word is "archive.pst is locked for editing by 'another user'." Of course it's locked. It's locked by Outlook. Why would you think that you can view a PST using Word? Can you view a sound file using Notepad? Certainly not. Using Word to try to view a PST is no different. Outlook is the application you use to see the contents of a PST. -- Brian Tillman
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March 9th 06, 07:24 PM
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Opening archived e-mail
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:37:34 -0800, robin wrote:
I would like to archive certain mail for future reference but tested the archive feature and found I cannot access archived items. The message I get when I try to open using Word is "archive.pst is locked for editing by 'another user'." The only way you can view archived email in a text editor is to export to a mail client that uses Unix MBox format......Thunderbird comes to mind...... -- Gordon Burgess-Parker Interim Systems and Management Accounting www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
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