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CDEBO - 24 Aug 2006 04:39 GMT

regarding the post pasted below...Please kindly advise if anyone can assist
me a bit further in a very simular situation. I have paid the geek squad at
my local office depot to copy / burn my entire outlook including favorites,
and etc. to a cd which I thought would give me easy access to simply copy to
my new pc.

I have had very same problems as the person below and I was wondering if
someone would be so kind as to advise exactly where do I copy the content on
the cd to when you say to the hard drive? I have tried and have had no
luck... Help!

Can you take a moment and write it out for me in baby steps. I simply don’t
have any more money to give to the office depot / geek squad and need to get
everything set up before I get fired. Please help.

Signed confused computer user.

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kbdmike <kbdmike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> When I looked at the file on CD
> while in my new computer the read only box was checked. Do you mean I
> need to uncheck that before I can be allowed access to the file?

You need to copy the file to the hard drive, then change the copy to uncheck
the read only attribute. That's why it says you don't have permission:
Outlook needs read/write access to the file and CDs are always read-only.
Outlook cannot access a PST on a CD. Brian Tillman

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 24 Aug 2006 10:22 GMT

Copy it anywhere you want. We advise against copying it to Outlook's default
file location so that you don't overwrite another Outlook data file.
Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data backup or transfer:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx

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> regarding the post pasted below...Please kindly advise if anyone can
> assist
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> Outlook needs read/write access to the file and CDs are always read-only.
> Outlook cannot access a PST on a CD. Brian Tillman

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CDEBO - 25 Aug 2006 02:14 GMT

I am still having trouble.... please can someone please help... I simply cant
pay office depot to take care of this for me. I cant copy the items from the
disc to the hard drive beaus eI dont know how... I cant figure out how to
change the files from read only because access is denied.... this is driving
me crazy !!

> regarding the post pasted below...Please kindly advise if anyone can assist
> me a bit further in a very simular situation. I have paid the geek squad at
[quoted text clipped - 25 lines]
> Outlook needs read/write access to the file and CDs are always read-only.
> Outlook cannot access a PST on a CD. Brian Tillman

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 25 Aug 2006 02:26 GMT

You're not asking Outlook questions anymore. These are basic computing
skills.
Are you saying that you don't know how to copy a file from a CD to a hard
drive?
Do you know how to use Windows Explorer?

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>I am still having trouble.... please can someone please help... I simply
>cant
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>> Outlook needs read/write access to the file and CDs are always read-only.
>> Outlook cannot access a PST on a CD. Brian Tillman

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Brian Tillman - 25 Aug 2006 15:26 GMT

> I am still having trouble.... please can someone please help... I
> simply cant pay office depot to take care of this for me. I cant
> copy the items from the disc to the hard drive beaus eI dont know
> how... I cant figure out how to change the files from read only
> because access is denied.... this is driving me crazy !!

This is basic Windows stuff. Don't you know how to navigate on your own PC?

Click Start>My Computer. Double-click your CD drive (with the CD in it, of
course). You will see all your files, including the PST or the folder in
which the PST is stored. If you don't see your PST at this top level,
navigate by double-clicking each level of folder path to the folder
containing it. Open that folder

Click Start>My Computer. Double-click your hard drive. You will see all
your top-level folders. Navigate as you did above to the folder where you
want to store the PST. Now, click on the PST in the CD window and drag it
to the hard drive window. The PST will transfer from the CD to the hard
drive. Once the copy completes, right-click the PST and uncheck the
"Read-only" box at the bottom left of the Properties dialogue. Click OK.

Now follow the instructions in the links Russ posted.

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