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How can I open Outlook PST files read-only in Outlook 2010

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Running Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 I have two quite large outlook files each about 700MB each. I need regularly to access the emails in them, they are archives from recent years. However each time I open them, the date (and maybe something internally in the file) gets updated, this means that my bac…

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I'm assuming Outlook 2010 has similar architecture to Outlook 2007. My source is specific to Outlook 2007 and lower, but I doubt anything has changed. You cannot, by design. Indexing, reading, and searching write to the PST file. Source: http://supp…

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