Re: Sorry but yet another cant open pst file

From: Brian Tillman (tillman1952_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:55:15 -0500

news.microsoft.com <fountainpen@amexol.net> wrote:

> Hang about, that would appear to be my problem, I never realised that
> you dont make a read ony file read adn write simply by removing the
> tick in ARCHIVE in properties.

No, you remove the Read-Only attribute. The Archive attribute is a legacy
DOS and OS/2 setting that signifies the file has changed since the last
archival backup that was performed. The Archive attribute gets turned on
whan a file gets changed. Here's an example. I start out with an empty
file "text.txt". Because I just created it, it has the Archive attribute
set. I then clear the attribute and dump some text into the file.
Examining the attributes shows that the Archive attribute is again set.

C:\>attrib text.txt
A C:\text.txt

C:\>attrib -a text.txt

C:\>attrib text.txt
           C:\text.txt

C:\>dir >>text.txt

C:\>attrib text.txt
A C:\text.txt

> How do you prevent it from being seen as read only if highlighting
> properties and removing the marker from ARCHIVE doesn't do this?

A file residing on CD and then compied to the HD will ALWAYS have the
read-only attribute set. You then need to remove that attribute.

> Yes, but that worked perfectly with the first .pst file I opened??

Because you were very lucky, perhaps. It's possible for a PST to be in a
self-consistent state such that it can be copied and used even with Outlook
open when you copy it, but there's no way to guarantee that. 

-- 
Brian Tillman

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