Not sure what this has to do with Contacts.
Explain what type of folders these were and how you were archiving.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
>I had several folders for archiving past e-mail by year
> in Outlook 2000. When I upgraded to Outlook 2003, they
> disappeared. Is it possible that they can be found
> somewhere? I use Win XP Pro.