Re: Outlook 2003 & Vista - error, help?

Thanks for the leads Diane.

Yes, the outlook.pst file was read only, I unchecked the read only box and
saved it. No difference. The archive.pst file wasn't read only.

As for the outlook program itself, it was a brand new installation on the
new computer with vista. Once I installed it I went to

C:\Users\Trish\AppData\Microsoft\Outlook

to see what was in there. There was no outlook.pst file. Then I copied my
files from the external into that folder.

I've now tried renaming my pst files to outlook1.pst and archive1.pst in
that same folder (which I think is the default folder), uninstalling outlook
2003, then reinstalling it.

Same message comes up:

"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook
window. The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not
available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists."

In the interim, I tried installing a borrowed copy (for testing purposes
only) of Outlook 2007. Not having any luck there either so I uninstalled it.

Any other ideas? I very much appreciate your help, feeling very lost and
vulnerable with the prospect of losing all my tasks, contacts, notes and
email history.

--
~Trish:-)


"DL" wrote:

In Explorer, properties of the pst - Read only ticked?

Was outlook set up and functioning prior to you migrating?
If so and you overwrote the existing pst's, then thats a good way to corrupt
both them and the profile

Move any pst's in the default location to a temp folder.
Re copy your pst's from external drive to the default location (Note pst's
do not *have to be* in the default location.
In the Control Panel, Mail Applet, create a new Profile, add these data
files set one as the default store, configure accounts & test.

"TrishAtCP" <TrishAtCP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I copied the the pst files (outlook & archive) from my old computer to my
external hard drive then from the external to the new computer. "flag
set" -
haven't a clue what that is Diane?
--
~Trish:-)


"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

how did you migrate the pst? is the read-only flag set?

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"TrishAtCP" <TrishAtCP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've installed Outlook 2003 on Vista Home Premium and migrated my pst
file
to
my new computer. When I try to load Outlook, I get the following
message:

"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook
window. The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not
available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists."

This is the path I used for the pst file:

C:\Users\myname\AppData\Microsoft\Outlook

I am desperate to get this fixed, I've got 5 yrs of accumulated data in
Outlook for my business - I'm in panic mode - please help - someone,
anyone!
--
~Trish:-)





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