Problem with Address Book & pst files after Detect and Repair

[Larry]

A week ago I did a Detect and Repair in Outlook 2003, and checked the box
"Discard my customized settings and restore default settings." I lost my
emails and contacts as a result. I have been sending and receiving emails
for the past week since the Detect and Repair.

Today I did a search on my problem of lost emails and contacts in Google
Groups and learned about PST files. Clicking on File/Data File Management
showed me that outlook1.pst was in use. I had another named outlook.pst. I
changed the names of the two files so that outlook.pst became outlook1.pst.

My old emails were now back. Next I clicked the Contacts button and found
that my old contacts were also back. The old emails are of limited
importance, but I was very happy to have the contacts back. Next I entered
the email editor and clicked on the Address Book icon, where I got following
message, "The address list could not be displayed. The Contacts folder
associated with this address list could not be opened; it may have been
moved or deleted, or you do not have permissions."

So I have the contacts, but the address book to access them cannot be opened
in the email editor.
1. How do I fix it so I can access the names in the address book?
2. Is there a way to merge the two PST files so that I have everything
from both before and after the Detect and Repair?
3. Did I lose my data because of checking that box (Discard my
customized settings and restore default settings)? Or does that just happen
automatically happen when you do a Detect and Repair?

Thanks for your help,

Larry

 

[Pat Willener]

One single post is really enough.

 

[Larry]

Thanks for your help Russ.

Sorry about the 3 posts. I thought the first post didn't go through, and I
even got a message to that effect, from Outlook, which was open at the time,
although I sent the post with Outlook Express. And then I got the same error
message a second time from Outlook, - although I again wrote and sent the
question that second time in OE. So I sent it a third time with OE and that
time didn't get the error message. I didn't see my previous posts on my
screen, and I guess that's because maybe I didn't think to refresh the
screen.

These days I'm tending to blame screwy things like this that happen to my
computer on downloading IE7, especially screwy things with Outlook. But that
probably isn't fair. Again, sorry everybody for the three posts.

Larry

 

[Guest]

detect and I'm having a problem with Outlook 2007. I inadvertantly created a
folder that was placed in the Inbox folder. Now when I try to move it to the
root or delete it, I receive an error stating the folder is full. then I get
a message stating that I don't have permission to move the folder. Now, I'm
the only one who uses this .pst file and don't know where this message comes
from. I've tried the inbox repair tool and that hasn't helped either. Any
suggestions?