What you say is correct, but when I open the Contacts folder it is empty.
However, when I open the other folders under the address book they all
contain the addresses I have stored there. Only the Contacts folder is empty
and it is my main address book folder. All of these folder were created under
Offic XP, but I'm now trying to use Offic 2003. Could this be the problem?
My computer's system board died, so I transferred my My Documents HDD to a
different computer which also has Office 2003 installed. But when I linked
Outlook to my version of Outlook.pst to the newley installed HDD all of my
addresses in my Contacts folder appear to be missing.
Sorry for my delay in responding to your last message -- bad weekend.

Thank you for your help.

Kent Phillips
--
Kent


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

There is no data in the address book view. What you see there is just a view
of the Contact Folders you have in your profile. State what those are. State
what you did to disconnect your address book view from your folders.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Kent" wrote in message
...
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