Password on PST file

[madhorsey]

Hey everyone...

Did anyone come across this problem? you do not have a password on your Personal Folder but once you copy it to another HDD/PC it asked for password :frown: In the beginning I though the user was being a ID10T but when I check in his old PC, there sure was no password. I then copy the same PST file to another PC... No Joy... same problem. As usual I blame Microsoft but that ain't gonna satisfy my user's need. If anyone can give a suggestion or PST password Cracker, it'll be very cool

 

[Allanv]

Thats weird i did this today and it never asked for password

here is what i did....

reloaded outlook and created a local .pst file called whatever i wanted it tobe

then renamed the backup .pst file to the same name as the one i had just created and overwrote the new one with the backup one

and that was it

 

[ericb]

You can set a password up on the PST when you first create it. Maybe he set one up on the old computer and had the password stored so it automatically used it whenever he accessed the file. But the password wouldn't be saved on the new computer. Try going into the properties of the PST file through Outlook on the original computer and setting the existing password field to 'null'.