contacts file missing after importing small excel database

[Guest]

I simply used the import function to add an excel data base of names
addresses etc.to my contact file. I mapped each excel item to outlook item.
The process started importing normally. Then suddenly during the import
process, I got the "Outlook will have to terminate "message. Outlook closed.
When I went to look at my contacts list - it had been destroyed - NO contacts
existed anymore. Yet the "contacts" icon showed (67546) contacts - which is
way more that I ever had.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I simply used the import function to add an excel data base of names
addresses etc.to my contact file. I mapped each excel item to
outlook item. The process started importing normally. Then suddenly
during the import process, I got the "Outlook will have to terminate
"message. Outlook closed. When I went to look at my contacts list -
it had been destroyed - NO contacts existed anymore. Yet the
"contacts" icon showed (67546) contacts - which is way more that I
ever had.

What version of Outlook? What type of account?