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Old School Skater - 04 Jan 2006 08:51 GMT

I've just restored Outlook from an old .pst file and I can see my Contacts
list fine. When I click on my address book I get an error message that says
"The address book could not be displayed. The contacts floder associated with
this address list could not be opened; it may have been moved or deleted or
you do not have permissions".

Thanks in advance.

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Old School Skater - 04 Jan 2006 09:12 GMT

Goodness gracious - fixed it myself after finding the answer right here in
the forums. Thanks all and good night. Phil

> I've just restored Outlook from an old .pst file and I can see my Contacts
> list fine. When I click on my address book I get an error message that says
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> Thanks in advance.

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JV - 04 Jan 2006 21:00 GMT

Help me. How the hell did you do it.

> I've just restored Outlook from an old .pst file and I can see my Contacts
> list fine. When I click on my address book I get an error message that
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> Thanks in advance.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 04 Jan 2006 21:12 GMT

Read the same posts he did. It's posted here every day:
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm#_Toc88835142

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

> Help me. How the hell did you do it.
>> I've just restored Outlook from an old .pst file and I can see my
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>> Thanks in advance.

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Old School Skater - 04 Jan 2006 23:29 GMT

My apologies for not posting the actual fix details - I to keep the name of
the post where I got the information from and ran out of time today trying to
find it again. It is something like the pprocedure described here as follows
- basically removing both address book directories references then closing
outlook and adding them
again.http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/newsReader.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.outl
ook.contacts&tid=25707c87-daf5-4db2-8f3d-97bf2b9f404b&cat=en_US_2ce36fd2-6f2f-42
32-a1c4-4c840521ef8c&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-US&m=1&p=1
Although I also did this which might have fixed it too - right click the
contacts folder and select Properties, click on the Outlook Address Book tab
and make sure there is a check beside "Show this folder as an e-mail address
book".

Russ might be able to explain this more concisely - he is a very kind and
knowledgable man - many thanks Russ!

all the best

phil

> Read the same posts he did. It's posted here every day:
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm#_Toc88835142
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> >> Thanks in advance.

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JV - 04 Jan 2006 23:42 GMT

This link seems to be about faxes, not about my problem.

> Read the same posts he did. It's posted here every day:
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm#_Toc88835142
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>>> Thanks in advance.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Jan 2006 02:41 GMT

This is the link I was attempting to post:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287563&Product=ol2002

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

> This link seems to be about faxes, not about my problem.
>
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>>>> Thanks in advance.

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