Calendar Backup won't allow export of vcalendar?

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susies - 05 Jan 2007 10:08 GMT

I am trying to backup my outlook calendar to a cd. I have copied the pst
file to My Documents and tried to burn it to a cd, however I can't open it
and get a message saying that it won't export vcalendar? The read only box
is unchecked. What is vcalendar? Why won't it open my calendar?

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Jan 2007 13:53 GMT

The only way to open a .pst file from a CD is to copy it to your local hard drive, turn off the read-only flag, start Outlook, and use the File | Open | Outlook Data File command in Outlook. Is that what you're using?

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>I am trying to backup my outlook calendar to a cd. I have copied the pst
> file to My Documents and tried to burn it to a cd, however I can't open it
> and get a message saying that it won't export vcalendar? The read only box
> is unchecked. What is vcalendar? Why won't it open my calendar?

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Brian Tillman - 05 Jan 2007 14:05 GMT

> I am trying to backup my outlook calendar to a cd. I have copied the
> pst file to My Documents and tried to burn it to a cd, however I
> can't open it and get a message saying that it won't export
> vcalendar? The read only box is unchecked. What is vcalendar? Why
> won't it open my calendar?

Forget the word "export". Just burn the PST to the CD. Make sure Outlook
is closed whenever you manipulate the PST in Windows. See this:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

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susies - 07 Jan 2007 06:27 GMT

When I burned it to a cd it looked like an e-mail with an attachment to open
with the calendar. It was too large to open in an e-mail. Why did it use
the e-mail editor? I finaly copied the entire outlook files to another hard
drive.

> > I am trying to backup my outlook calendar to a cd. I have copied the
> > pst file to My Documents and tried to burn it to a cd, however I
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> is closed whenever you manipulate the PST in Windows. See this:
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

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Brian Tillman - 07 Jan 2007 19:20 GMT

> When I burned it to a cd it looked like an e-mail with an attachment
> to open with the calendar.

What the icon looks like is completely immaterial. What the file extension
and internal format is is everything.

> It was too large to open in an e-mail.
> Why did it use the e-mail editor? I finaly copied the entire outlook
> files to another hard drive.

Well, at least it sounds like youi're working now.

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