restore deleted contacts?

[Happy]

ok here is my situation, I am running Office 2007 and I had a bunch of duplicate contacts in outlook and on my HTC touch pro phone. I ran a program called "dupededupe" on the phone to get rid of the ones on it and had to just delete manually the ones in outlook. after the manual deletion I had no addresses in my address book. I did check to see if my contacts were marked as an address book and it is BUT, the check mark that allowes you to make it an address book was "greyed" out.
ALL contacts that were manually deleted are in the "deleted Items: folder in the "Mail" section on the left hand side.
I tried to right click and just add them to my contacts to no avail.
I do have a backed up contacts file on an external hard drivethat is a few months old but dont want duplicates again.
is there a way to restore all the deleted contacts and start deleting over again? (more carefully of course).

thank you for your time.

Kenny.
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[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You have posted several inconsistent claims so you will need to post more
clearly and more accurately. When you do, include:
1. Why you would not expect Contacts that you deleted to also disappear from
your address book view.
2. Why you think that deleting those Contacts somehow removed all the
entries from your address book view. That's impossible.
3. What makes you think your address book view ever worked as it should if
the option does not even exist in this profile.
4. How you configured your address book view in the first place:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287563&Product=ol2002

 

[Happy]

russval wrote on Fri, 18 September 2009 15:5

You have posted several inconsistent claims so you will need to post more
clearly and more accurately. When you do, include:
1. Why you would not expect Contacts that you deleted to also disappear from
your address book view.
2. Why you think that deleting those Contacts somehow removed all the
entries from your address book view. That's impossible.
3. What makes you think your address book view ever worked as it should if
the option does not even exist in this profile.
4. How you configured your address book view in the first place:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287563&Product=ol2002

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

ok here is my situation, I am running Office 2007 and I had a bunch of
duplicate contacts in outlook and on my HTC touch pro phone. I ran a
program called "dupededupe" on the phone to get rid of the ones on it and
had to just delete manually the ones in outlook. after the manual deletion
I had no addresses in my address book. I did check to see if my contacts
were marked as an address book and it is BUT, the check mark that allowes
you to make it an address book was "greyed" out.
ALL contacts that were manually deleted are in the "deleted Items: folder
in the "Mail" section on the left hand side.
I tried to right click and just add them to my contacts to no avail.
I do have a backed up contacts file on an external hard drivethat is a few
months old but dont want duplicates again.
is there a way to restore all the deleted contacts and start deleting over
again? (more carefully of course).

thank you for your time.

Kenny. Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.co

I know im being confusing here but im trying to explain the best i can. Had I known the answers to 1,2,3 I probably wouldnt be here asking questions, I would be giving answers. I dont even know what 4 is. Microsoft support is like going to a bum for financial assistance.

Let me see if i can shed some light on whats going on here for you.

I am going through one-by-one in the contacts/deleted items folder and "moving to" the contacts folder. when i do that the email then shows up in the address book. but, it also adds another to the contacts as it should, only thing is, is there is already a contact like it in the contacts. I have to then delete the one in "contacts" then "move" the one in the deleted items folder to the contacts and THEN the address shows up in the address book..
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