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Can't find all my contacts after O2007 reinstall
Please excuse a newbie here, spent the last couple of hours looking through the old posts but can't find the answer I need. Due to system instabilities I've had to format my C drive and reinstall Win 7 and of course everything else including Office 2007. Made a copy of my outlook.pst file and have successfully linked that backup up after reinstall of Office. All emails, folders, contacts etc are there. Everything looked good until trying to send an email and the contact I send to often did not appear. I have my contacts grouped under a bunch of different folders within "My Contacts", usually based on their company name or how I know them, ie friends, church, company name etc. I also have a straight "Contacts" group/folder for all the ones that don't logically fit anywhere else. If I go into "My Contacts", I see all groups and all contacts within each group, everything appears normal. However, when sending an email, all I see are the addresses in "Contacts", not any of the other groups. On further investigation, in Datafile Management, under Adress books it shows "Outlook Address Book" / MAPI. Clicking on change and shows "Contacts". If I attempt add a new address book using "Additional Address Books", (thinking I'd try and add "My Contacts") then choose Outllok AB is says I can't as OAB can't be added twice. Further info, I can send email if I go into My contacts, open up the person in question and click the email button. So anyone have any thoughts on how I can see ALL my contacts when sending emails? Thanks in advance. -- McGibb http://forums.slipstick.com |
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Can't find all my contacts after O2007 reinstall
If you could clarify this statement it would be very helpful: "have
successfully linked that backup up after reinstall of Office." Precisely what you did would be very important to know. Also, I assume from your description that you are asking about the Outlook Address Book view. Is that correct? If so, you must enable any Contact subfolders as electronic address book in their properties before they will appear in that view. Have you done that? -- Russ Valentine "McGibb" McGibb.4aemaa@invalid wrote in message news:McGibb.4aemaa@invalid... Please excuse a newbie here, spent the last couple of hours looking through the old posts but can't find the answer I need. Due to system instabilities I've had to format my C drive and reinstall Win 7 and of course everything else including Office 2007. Made a copy of my outlook.pst file and have successfully linked that backup up after reinstall of Office. All emails, folders, contacts etc are there. Everything looked good until trying to send an email and the contact I send to often did not appear. I have my contacts grouped under a bunch of different folders within "My Contacts", usually based on their company name or how I know them, ie friends, church, company name etc. I also have a straight "Contacts" group/folder for all the ones that don't logically fit anywhere else. If I go into "My Contacts", I see all groups and all contacts within each group, everything appears normal. However, when sending an email, all I see are the addresses in "Contacts", not any of the other groups. On further investigation, in Datafile Management, under Adress books it shows "Outlook Address Book" / MAPI. Clicking on change and shows "Contacts". If I attempt add a new address book using "Additional Address Books", (thinking I'd try and add "My Contacts") then choose Outllok AB is says I can't as OAB can't be added twice. Further info, I can send email if I go into My contacts, open up the person in question and click the email button. So anyone have any thoughts on how I can see ALL my contacts when sending emails? Thanks in advance. -- McGibb http://forums.slipstick.com |
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Can't find all my contacts after O2007 reinstall
Hi Russ, By relinking I meant, before I restinalled outlook I created an outlook folder in c:\Users\user\appdata\local\microsoft, then copied my old outlook.pst into there. Then after reinstall, outlook cretaed an oulook1.pst. In datafile management I added outlook.pst as a data file, made it the default and removed outlook1.pst from the list. Closed and opened outlook. All appeared ok. As far as the addres view, I'm not sure what you mean. I mean that on the left side of outlook screen, you have icon for Mail, Calendar, Contacts etc. That's where I can see all my contacts. Just looked at Properties of the contacts groups in "My Contacts", went to Outlook Address Book tab, ticked Show this folder as an email address book and now they show up fine. You are a legend Russ, Thank you. Why is this necessary? Regards Mark Russ Valentine;143931 Wrote: If you could clarify this statement it would be very helpful: "have successfully linked that backup up after reinstall of Office." Precisely what you did would be very important to know. Also, I assume from your description that you are asking about the Outlook Address Book view. Is that correct? If so, you must enable any Contact subfolders as electronic address book in their properties before they will appear in that view. Have you done that? -- Russ Valentine -- McGibb http://forums.slipstick.com |
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Can't find all my contacts after O2007 reinstall
The address book view is what I assumed you were using when you said you
couldn't find your contacts "when sending an email." But it was unclear what view you were actually using. The settings that determine whether a Contacts Folder will appear in the address book view are unique to the profile, not the data file. Outlook only enables the default Contacts Folder as an electronic address book in a new profile. The rest you must do yourself, even though you migrated your data file in exactly the right way. -- Russ Valentine "McGibb" McGibb.4aerua@invalid wrote in message news:McGibb.4aerua@invalid... Hi Russ, By relinking I meant, before I restinalled outlook I created an outlook folder in c:\Users\user\appdata\local\microsoft, then copied my old outlook.pst into there. Then after reinstall, outlook cretaed an oulook1.pst. In datafile management I added outlook.pst as a data file, made it the default and removed outlook1.pst from the list. Closed and opened outlook. All appeared ok. As far as the addres view, I'm not sure what you mean. I mean that on the left side of outlook screen, you have icon for Mail, Calendar, Contacts etc. That's where I can see all my contacts. Just looked at Properties of the contacts groups in "My Contacts", went to Outlook Address Book tab, ticked Show this folder as an email address book and now they show up fine. You are a legend Russ, Thank you. Why is this necessary? Regards Mark Russ Valentine;143931 Wrote: If you could clarify this statement it would be very helpful: "have successfully linked that backup up after reinstall of Office." Precisely what you did would be very important to know. Also, I assume from your description that you are asking about the Outlook Address Book view. Is that correct? If so, you must enable any Contact subfolders as electronic address book in their properties before they will appear in that view. Have you done that? -- Russ Valentine -- McGibb http://forums.slipstick.com |
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Can't find all my contacts after O2007 reinstall
Thanks Russ, That makes sense I suppose. Appreciate your help. Regards Mark -- McGibb http://forums.slipstick.com |
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Can't find all my contacts after O2007 reinstall
Not sure it makes sense. But it is what it is. Outlook is a beast.
-- Russ Valentine "McGibb" McGibb.4agmia@invalid wrote in message news:McGibb.4agmia@invalid... Thanks Russ, That makes sense I suppose. Appreciate your help. Regards Mark -- McGibb http://forums.slipstick.com |
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