atw: Re: Anyone know how to restore a Contacts file in Outlook 2003

  • From: "Geoffrey Marnell" <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:10:52 +1100

Manual reconstruction.

I blush 


 
Geoffrey Marnell
Principal Consultant
Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Martin
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:38 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Anyone know how to restore a Contacts file in Outlook 2003

Geoffrey Marnell wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for the advice. I'm beginning to think that my problem is that
Outlook contacts
> are not stored in contacts.pst (even though such a file gets created when
you install
> it). That's the file I have been restoring from back-ups. However, my
contacts.pst is,
> I've discovered, empty.
>
> Also, when I do what you suggest and add an older outlook.pst file, all
the old
> directories in the old .pst files are there in the folder list EXCEPT a
contacts
> folder. This is weird beyond words, unless the contacts get stored
somewhere else.
> Perhaps they have to be manually archived. And maybe Outlook 2007 has made
it all
> easier, and more logical. Or maybe my installation has been gremlinised.
>
Greetings from Hungry Head West -- just to the north-east a little of Outer
Quambatook ....   and not all that far, really, as the crow flies, from
Inner Manangatang...    (that busy little railway town)...

Are you able to tell us if you managed to get that address book data back to
make contact again with your family in these areas?  
Guess what?  I have a friend who wants to try the same impossibility!   Any
good news ?  Incantations?  Spells ?  Effective curses? 

-PeterM
peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30
years of his life. - Muhammad Ali 
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