Outlook after a reinstall of Windows XP

[Mac]

I had to recover my system and I now need to reinstall office. All of the
data folders and data were recovered. When I install Outlook, will my old
contacts DB be there, or will it overlay my data?

 

[DL]

OL should use / connect to the origonal data file. Even if the installation
was to create a new data file your origonal would be still there, and
usable.

 

[Mac]

Thanks - I thought it would, but everything else went wrong yesterday,
thought I would check.
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Mac

OL should use / connect to the origonal data file. Even if the installation
was to create a new data file your origonal would be still there, and
usable.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I had to recover my system and I now need to reinstall office. All
of the data folders and data were recovered. When I install Outlook,
will my old contacts DB be there, or will it overlay my data?

Depending on your Outlook version, you may, in fact, find that the
installation created a new PST and that it's masking the old data. You
should be able to create a mail profile that accesses the old data, however.