Re: My PST keeps getting corrupt.

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From: Clippy (cansokid_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:37:36 -0300

This is a possible side effect of "sharing" a pst only one sysem can have
access at a time if your moving from pc to pc and trying to use the file
this coudl happen
"Heyman" <mrhelperMAPS@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
news:yP42d.229011$bp1.85877@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> I have an external hard drive connected to a Linksys network storage link.
> So my drive essentially is a network drive. I have my outlook.pst file on
> this networked drive so that I can access mail from 2 different machines
> (not at the same time). I found that my PST file frequently becomes
corrupt
> (at least once a day) just from normal use. At first I thought maybe
there
> was a bug in Spambayes causing my file to get corrupt, but after
> uninstalling Spambayes from both machines, my file still gets corrupt.
>
> Can't I have my pst file on a network share? Is there something special
> that I need to do?
>
> Corey H
>
>

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