Resolving ‘File Access is Denied’ Error Message While Importing PST Files in Outlook

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The latter versions of MS Outlook like 2007, 2010 etc all comes with the latest sophisticated features. You can easily import data with the help of Import and Export wizard. But sometimes, the users are unable to import any PST files to Outlook and every time we do, an error message is displayed like ‘File access is denied. You do not have permission required to access the file drive_letter:\path_name'. In this error message, the root drive letter is represented by drive_letter  and full path of the PST file is denoted by \path. As a result of which, we are unable to access any data that is located on the Outlook database and neither we are able to import any thing.

The reason for the above mentioned error message is due to the fact that the PST file might already be having a Read Only attribute. To fix this problem, you would have to copy the PST file to the hard drive and after that run the Inbox Repair Tool that will scan PST files that have gone damaged. Before running this tool, it is important that the hidden files and other folders are enabled otherwise you would then be not able to locate the corrupted PST files.

Alternatively, you can use any good 3 rd party Outlook PST Repair software if you don't want to go through the above mentioned manual procedure in getting rid of the error message that you are facing right now. These utility tools are very potent in making the damaged PST files repaired. It would automatically scan the PST files and other data that is present on the database and then it would repair the files. Once the files are repaired, you can then easily import as well as export the PST files on the Outlook.
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