Where to locate my Address Book (.wab)

[Guest]

Where do I find the address book file for my Outlook (or .wab file).... The
folder I thought it should be in (C:\Documents and Settings\paul\Application
Data\Microsoft\Address Book) ..>There is a address book there, but if I open
it, it is not the correct address book (as it has only a couple of contacts
in it, while my correct one has hundreds of contacts with a number of
different contact folders)... I cannot find my correct address book file,
because I would like to back it up... I did also do a search for *.wab on my
machine and the only results I got was this WRONG address book... If I have
the contacts in Outlook then there has to be a .wab file out there with my
correct information..... Is this correct? Can someone help point me in the
right direction.....

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, Outlook does not use a .wab file. That's a file for Outlook Express.

 

[Guest]

Yeah sorry...I knew that... I am fixing fellow employees problems with their
address books in Outlook and Express, so I was mixing the two.... I guess I
mean to say.... Is there a seperate file that is basically just our address
book file, for Outlook purposes...Or is that information stored all within
the Outlook.PST file?... I am just trying to backup or save my address book
seperately, and want to know how to do this..... I could export all to csv
files, but I thought there would be a seperate file that acts like a address
alone or within the Outlook program... One other thing, I rather not export
as CSV's because I have a bunch of different contact folders, and to export
csv's you can only export one folder at a time, so I would have over 10
seperate csv's for all my contacts, instead is there a way to export the
entire address book/contact folders as one file...?????

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook stores all data in your .pst file. Just back that up.