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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / February 2006personal address book record missing
My records in the Personal Address Book are suddenly missing. They are not in the Contacts folder. How can I get them back ? Outlook has not used a Personal Address Book for years. Why were you? List the steps you used to "lose" your Contacts. Be sure to include your Outlook version.  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > My records in the Personal Address Book are suddenly missing. They are not > in > the Contacts folder. > How can I get them back ? Hi Russ, I am currectly using Outlook 2002. When I click the icon 'Address Book', I choose the 'Personal Address Book' in below of 'Global Address List'. I had some record store in the 'Personal Address Book' that I have a file in PAB store in my D:\Exchange folder. Now the file seems an empty file with only 32 KB. I hope you get what I wrote in the above step. Benson Au > Outlook has not used a Personal Address Book for years. Why were you? List > the steps you used to "lose" your Contacts. Be sure to include your Outlook [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > the Contacts folder. > > How can I get them back ? I see. Outlook abandoned the PAB as an information store years ago in favor of Contact Folders. I know of no methods for repairing or recovering PAB files. Have you checked with your Exchange administrator to see if your PAB was included in the backup of your Exchange mailbox? SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Hi Russ, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> > the Contacts folder. >> > How can I get them back ? Since the .pab is a separate file stored locally, it wouldn't be backed up with the mailbox on the server. It does sound like this .pab may be damaged, though, and as you say, there's no repair tool. It would have been better to have imported its data into Outlook Contacts long ago. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I see. Outlook abandoned the PAB as an information store years ago in favor > of Contact Folders. I know of no methods for repairing or recovering PAB [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >>> > the Contacts folder. >>> > How can I get them back ? That's what I was afraid of. A Contacts Folder would have been, of course. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] Since the .pab is a separate file stored locally, it wouldn't be backed up with the mailbox on the server. It does sound like this .pab may be damaged, though, and as you say, there's no repair tool. It would have been better to have imported its data into Outlook Contacts long ago. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx >I see. Outlook abandoned the PAB as an information store years ago in favor > of Contact Folders. I know of no methods for repairing or recovering PAB [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >>> > the Contacts folder. >>> > How can I get them back ? |
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