Adress book gone :(

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Hi wonder if someone could help me with a problem I have at home right now.
When I did a full system restore on my comp i wanted to save all my history
and so on in microsoft outlook. Downloaded a program tha would help me to
save all my history and documents. It was a shareware program so instead of
paying 30 bucks i thought that i could do it my self (silly me). it seems
like all i have now is recived mail and nothing else. the thing is that i
could see from wich loacation the program would get it´s information from to
do it´s backup so I copied the same folder and thought that the adress book
would be intact.

is it in anyway I still can get my address book to work ??? *please*
 
bbb_thor said:
Hi wonder if someone could help me with a problem I have at home
right now. When I did a full system restore on my comp i wanted to
save all my history and so on in microsoft outlook. Downloaded a
program tha would help me to save all my history and documents. It
was a shareware program so instead of paying 30 bucks i thought that
i could do it my self (silly me). it seems like all i have now is
recived mail and nothing else. the thing is that i could see from
wich loacation the program would get it´s information from to do it´s
backup so I copied the same folder and thought that the adress book
would be intact.

is it in anyway I still can get my address book to work ??? *please*
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Hi,
first of all
IF you dont know, how a programm is working, ever make a backup of your
datas you want to process.
So know you have to activate your address book.
Have you reinstalled your Operation System or why have you made a backup?
Your contacts are stored in a *.pst File. So you have to search for your old
*.pst file,
and be sure that you search also in hidden file and folders
 
AndreasRoeder said:
Hi,
first of all
IF you dont know, how a programm is working, ever make a backup of your
datas you want to process.
So know you have to activate your address book.
Have you reinstalled your Operation System or why have you made a backup?
Your contacts are stored in a *.pst File. So you have to search for your old
*.pst file,
and be sure that you search also in hidden file and folders
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Hi Andreas.

Thanks for your respons. I NOW know that this was kind of a stupid thing to
try to save the addressbook *grrrr* in this way and do I have to say that I
would not do this again :) I´m not a wizard in the outlook program (yet =) I
did what u said and searched for the *pst file I found it but now what can´t
find any option that says "import *pst file" for example Hope that u can help
me The email that i have recived the past days are these going to dissapear?
I installed Win XP all over again cause I had some problems and wanted to be
sure that nothing very lost after the reinstallation from outlook.

Best Regards / Patrik
 
bbb_thor said:
Hi Andreas.

Thanks for your respons. I NOW know that this was kind of a stupid thing to
try to save the addressbook *grrrr* in this way and do I have to say that I
would not do this again :) I´m not a wizard in the outlook program (yet =) I
did what u said and searched for the *pst file I found it but now what can´t
find any option that says "import *pst file" for example Hope that u can help
me The email that i have recived the past days are these going to dissapear?
I installed Win XP all over again cause I had some problems and wanted to be
sure that nothing very lost after the reinstallation from outlook.

Best Regards / Patrik
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Hi again

Forgott to ask one thing before when i do the *.pst searc i found one
"archive" file and one "outlook" file which one contains the
contacts/addressbook..??

Thanks again / Patrik
 
Hi Andreas.
Thanks for your respons. I NOW know that this was kind of a stupid
thing to try to save the addressbook *grrrr* in this way and do I
have to say that I would not do this again :) I´m not a wizard in the
outlook program (yet =) I did what u said and searched for the *pst
file I found it but now what can´t find any option that says "import
*pst file" for example Hope that u can help me The email that i have
recived the past days are these going to dissapear? I installed Win
XP all over again cause I had some problems and wanted to be sure
that nothing very lost after the reinstallation from outlook.

Best Regards / Patrik
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Hi Patrik,
so please open your Outlook
File > Open > Datafile and pointed to your *.pst file.
After that it will be open in your Outlook.
If you are using a pop3 server, the emails are still there.(on the server)
After creating the account you will also get this emails from the past
 
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