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Moira - 19 Feb 2008 16:34 GMT

Our office server blew over 2 weeks ago. We have recovered all e-mail except
My Address Books are Missing and I still have a Calender & Calendar1 &
Contacts & Contacts1 - neither of which I can delete or rename. Calendar1 &
Contacts1 contain my information but Calendar & Contacts are blank and cannot
be deleted.
We backed up my outlook on my hard drive. Is there any what I can: recover
my multiple address books, put the information in Calendar1 & Contacts1 into
the other 2 folders, or at least delete and rename the ones I want to keep?
Thanks!
Moira

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Brian Tillman - 19 Feb 2008 17:07 GMT

> Our office server blew over 2 weeks ago. We have recovered all
> e-mail except My Address Books are Missing and I still have a
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> Contacts1 into the other 2 folders, or at least delete and rename the
> ones I want to keep? Thanks!

How did you "recover" the data? Describe exactly what you did.

Outlook's "address book" is nothing more than a view of your Contacts
folders. It doesn't contain any data on its own.

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Moira - 21 Feb 2008 21:21 GMT

Hi Brian:

The guy who sold us the new Server did the re-install. He managed to
re-install my Outlook and all my e-mails twice and then couldn't figure out
why I was over quota! I'm the one who found the duplication of all the
e-mail folders. We have been 3+ weeks at this, and I have about 7 or 8
address books that are M.I.A.. Apparently he keeps saying I thought I got
your stuff all fixed. I am at a point that I want to fix it myself. I did
backup my Outlook to a mailbackup.pst file. I would even like the option of
printing out my address books, and re-creating them. There are several of us
in the same office in the same boat, all ready for rubber tooms!
Thanks!
Moira

> > Our office server blew over 2 weeks ago. We have recovered all
> > e-mail except My Address Books are Missing and I still have a
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> Outlook's "address book" is nothing more than a view of your Contacts
> folders. It doesn't contain any data on its own.

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Moira - 21 Feb 2008 21:25 GMT

Brian, I forgot to mention that we were supposed to get Outlook 2003 and
instead our tech guy install Outlook 2000.
Thanks again!
Moira

> Hi Brian:
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> > Outlook's "address book" is nothing more than a view of your Contacts
> > folders. It doesn't contain any data on its own.

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Brian Tillman - 22 Feb 2008 15:49 GMT

> The guy who sold us the new Server did the re-install. He managed to
> re-install my Outlook and all my e-mails twice and then couldn't
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> out my address books, and re-creating them. There are several of us
> in the same office in the same boat, all ready for rubber tooms!

Are you using Exchange or are you using PSTs for your data storage?

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Moira - 22 Feb 2008 20:32 GMT

.pst

> > The guy who sold us the new Server did the re-install. He managed to
> > re-install my Outlook and all my e-mails twice and then couldn't
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> Are you using Exchange or are you using PSTs for your data storage?

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Brian Tillman - 22 Feb 2008 21:12 GMT

> .pst

Sounds like the techie copied entire folders rather than the contents of the
folders. Open, for example, Contacts1 and select all the items in it with
CTRL-A. Then click Edit>Copy and specify Contacts as the destination. To
the same with Calendar1 and Calendar. You'll need to display Calendar1 in a
table view like By Category before CTRL-A will select all the items. When
you've finished copying, right-click Calendar1 or Contacts1 and choose
Delete or simply select the folder and press Delete on the keyboard.

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