Accessing archived email in a .pst on CD/DVD

[RottPaws]

I have a bunch of old email archived to a DVD in several .pst files. But I can't access them from the DVD because they are read-only and that property cannot be unchecked.

Is there anyway to circumvent the read-only problem and access the emails from the DVD without having to first copy the files to the harddrive and uncheck the read-only property?

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Rott Paws

...It's not a bug. It's an undocumented feature!!!

 

[smah]

No, Outlook needs write access even if nothing is going to be written.

 

[RottPaws]

That's not the answer I was looking for :-(, but thanks for the response.

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Rott Paws

...It's not a bug. It's an undocumented feature!!!

 

[Auger282]

You could do it from a cdrw...
but I wouldnt try it myself ;]

 

[RottPaws]

I have a machine I can use to create the archive disks, but the computer I would actually be using to access them doesn't have a burner.

Thanks for the thought, though.

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Rott Paws

...It's not a bug. It's an undocumented feature!!!

 

[eyec]

copy the pst files to your hard drive, remove the archive attribute and that should give you what you want.