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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / May 2006Help with restoring Contacts from backup file
During a sync between my handheld device and desktop all but 3 of my Contacts were lost. I see a couple of .pst files saved on my desktop. One is Archive.pst (Office Data file) and the other is Outlook.pst (Office Data file). I looked in the Help section, and also on MicroSoft.com at Article ID : 287070, and followed the steps to Import a folder. After the stop to tell it how to handle duplicates I come to a window that says "Select the folder to import from:" I select Contacts. Below that I can select "Import items into the current folder" or "Import items into the same folder in" and that menu offers either "Personal folders" or "Personal folders" (I'm not sure why it is in there twice) or "Archive folders". I can't get it to work on either of those. How should I proceed? Any help would be appreciated! Importing is never the correct way to restore Outlook data. Just open this file and see if it contains the Outlook data you want. If it does, then configure Outlok to use it as its default data file. I'll assume you know how since you did not provide your Outlook version. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > During a sync between my handheld device and desktop all but 3 of my Contacts > were lost. I see a couple of .pst files saved on my desktop. One is [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > How should I proceed? Any help would be appreciated! Russ, Thank you for your post. I am using Outlook 2002. I opened the Archive.pst and it does not have anything in it, even though the size of the file is supposed to be 10,528 KB. When I opened the Outlook.pst it seems to be same file I already had open - with only 3 contacts. Is there anything else I can do, or should I resign myself to recreating my Contacts list. Thank you for your help. Whitney > Importing is never the correct way to restore Outlook data. > Just open this file and see if it contains the Outlook data you want. If [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > How should I proceed? Any help would be appreciated! Archiving is not backing up. Do you back up your data files? If you search your hard drive for *.pst, do any others turn up? (enable search and display of hidden files).  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Russ, > [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >> > >> > How should I proceed? Any help would be appreciated! I don't have anything but archive.pst, so I think I am out of luck. If you think I have any chance of recoving my Contacts by another means please let me know. Thanks again for your help. Whitney > Archiving is not backing up. > Do you back up your data files? [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > >> > > >> > How should I proceed? Any help would be appreciated! The only one I know of is to restore from backup. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I don't have anything but archive.pst, so I think I am out of luck. If you > think I have any chance of recoving my Contacts by another means please [quoted text clipped - 61 lines] >> >> > >> >> > How should I proceed? Any help would be appreciated! Could you please explain the process for how to set a given folder as default? I've imported my contacts from another computer - now they are loaded in a secondary folder which means I don't get my reminders (which are the organizational lifeblood of my business). By making this contact folder the default, will it then activate my follow-up reminders???? > Importing is never the correct way to restore Outlook data. > Just open this file and see if it contains the Outlook data you want. If [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > How should I proceed? Any help would be appreciated! You cannot set an individual folder as a default. You can only set an entire PST file as a default. Method depends on your version, which you did not provide. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Could you please explain the process for how to set a given folder as > default? I've imported my contacts from another computer - now they are [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >> > >> > How should I proceed? Any help would be appreciated! |
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