When I open my address book I have five files listed: Contacts, ASGS,
Clients, MTTC and SeniorNet. All of my personal address were stored in the
"Contacts" file and the other four files contain address specific to specific
organizations I work with. I can read all of the files except "Contacts." I
have several (3-4) backup copies of old "Outlook.pst" files on my computer,
but I cannot read the "Contacts" file from any of these backups. Could this
be because the older files were created under Office XP? I'm now running
Office 2003 and trying to read these older files. Is there no way to separate
the address book from the e-mail messages, etc.? Addresses used to be stored
in a WAB file, but I haven't seen these files for several years.
--
Kent


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Post is too vague. You probably know what you mean by "I have 5 lists" but
none of us could. Reinstalling Outlook never touches your data (nor does it
ever solve anything). State what else you did and why.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Kent" wrote in message
...
I had to re-install Outlook 2003 on my computer and now I cannot see my
main
contacts list. I have five lists and the main one is empty. I hav3e old
copies of the Outlook.pst file but none of them show the addresses in the
contacts list, jus all of the other lists. By the way, I store my
outlook.pst
file in My documents which is on a hard drive different from the operating
system and office software.
Can anyone tell me how to recover just the address book contacts without
also importing the old e-mail messages?

Thank you
--
Kent