Archive error when trying to archive "hidden" (no permission) folder

When my automatic archive occurs, it posts the following message:

| Error while archiving folder "Search - House" in store "Personal
| Folders". You don't have appropriate permission for this operation.

That particular folder doesn't appear in my "Personal Folders",
although it used to (about 4 years ago). I've moved this PST file
from machine to machine, so there's a good chance that my username
settings have changed. Therefore, this folder might exist, but be
hidden by the security subsystem. I have two issues:

1. I want to ensure that the archive for the other folders are
happening, even though it encounters this particular error.

2. I would like to get rid of this error. Is there any way to tell
the archieve settings to forget about that folder, when I'm not able
to set the folder's properties directly (due to its hidden state)?
Perhaps that folder doesn't exist, but the archives settings still do.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-= Mike Hanson =-

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Try running the Inbox Repair Tool against your .PST file to see if it finds
any errors. Search your drive for a file called scanpst.exe and run it.
Allow the program to make a backup of your file before it makes any changes.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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"Mike Hanson" wrote:

When my automatic archive occurs, it posts the following message:

| Error while archiving folder "Search - House" in store "Personal
| Folders". You don't have appropriate permission for this operation.

That particular folder doesn't appear in my "Personal Folders",
although it used to (about 4 years ago). I've moved this PST file
from machine to machine, so there's a good chance that my username
settings have changed. Therefore, this folder might exist, but be
hidden by the security subsystem. I have two issues:

1. I want to ensure that the archive for the other folders are
happening, even though it encounters this particular error.

2. I would like to get rid of this error. Is there any way to tell
the archieve settings to forget about that folder, when I'm not able
to set the folder's properties directly (due to its hidden state)?
Perhaps that folder doesn't exist, but the archives settings still do.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-= Mike Hanson =-

To send me an e-mail, please remove "nospam" from my address.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]"
om wrote:

Try running the Inbox Repair Tool against your .PST file to see if it finds
any errors. Search your drive for a file called scanpst.exe and run it.
Allow the program to make a backup of your file before it makes any changes.

I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Thanks.

BTW, I won't know whether the problem is "solved" until the error
fails to appear during the next auto-archieve.

-= Mike Hanson =-

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This is interesting. I ran SCANPST.EXE against both outlook.pst and
archive.pst. It reported errors in both files (with far fewer errors
in archive.pst, even though it's 1.3GB compared with outlook.pst's
mere 300MB). After cleaning them, I told the system to auto-archive.
I still received an error message regarding that invisible folder, but
the purported cause had changed:

| Error while archiving folder "Search - House" in store
| "Personal Folders". The drive is not ready. Please
| verify that the disk is in the drive and that the door is
| closed.

Recall that the old message was:

| Error while archiving folder "Search - House" in store
| "Personal Folders". You don't have appropriate
| permission for this operation.

I hunted around some more, and eventually learned that I'm using the
old 97-2002 PST format, which supposed has problems with files beyond
1GB, and maxes out at 2GB. I'm not in the process of imported my old
files into new ones using the latest, recommended format.

-= Mike Hanson =-


"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]"
om wrote:

Try running the Inbox Repair Tool against your .PST file to see if it finds
any errors. Search your drive for a file called scanpst.exe and run it.
Allow the program to make a backup of your file before it makes any changes.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


"Mike Hanson" wrote:

When my automatic archive occurs, it posts the following message:

| Error while archiving folder "Search - House" in store "Personal
| Folders". You don't have appropriate permission for this operation.

That particular folder doesn't appear in my "Personal Folders",
although it used to (about 4 years ago). I've moved this PST file
from machine to machine, so there's a good chance that my username
settings have changed. Therefore, this folder might exist, but be
hidden by the security subsystem. I have two issues:

1. I want to ensure that the archive for the other folders are
happening, even though it encounters this particular error.

2. I would like to get rid of this error. Is there any way to tell
the archieve settings to forget about that folder, when I'm not able
to set the folder's properties directly (due to its hidden state)?
Perhaps that folder doesn't exist, but the archives settings still do.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-= Mike Hanson =-

To send me an e-mail, please remove "nospam" from my address.


To send me an e-mail, please remove "nospam" from my address.

Mike Hanson wrote:

I hunted around some more, and eventually learned that I'm using the
old 97-2002 PST format, which supposed has problems with files beyond
1GB, and maxes out at 2GB. I'm not in the process of imported my old
files into new ones using the latest, recommended format.

Do you mean your "now" in the process? Don't import. Open the old in
Outlook, create a new in Outlook and copy the folders from the old to the
new. Importing will lose data and has been known to corrupt a mail profile
on occasion.
--
Brian Tillman