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Outlook 2000 save old email to a CD

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by jmoody76

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I know how to create a .pst and export mail to it from a mail box but when I burn it to a CD I can not read it unless I save it to the hard disk first. I think it does this because when it is burnt to the CD the attributes of the .pst get changed to Read Only and Outlook can?t read it. After I save the .pst to the hard drive and clear the Read Only attribute I can open it just fine. I was wondering if there were any better ways to put the Outlook info like email, contacts, and calendars ontoa CD that easily readable and searchable.

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by syscokid

Instead of exporting it to a .pst file, you can export it to Excel or Access and have access to your messages. They just won't be nicely formatted.

Or you could invest in a CD-RW, where the .pst would not be read-only.

by alpha-male

You have determined the exact issue here...when the .pst is read only, you cannot open it in Outlook, but when burning a file to a CD-Rom it is a Read-Only file. Your only alternatives are to use a different read/write media like a zip disk, usb drive, etc. A CD/RW drive unfortunately won't help....as it still registers the files as read-only.

Good luck! Hope this at least helps somewhat...

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