All of your Outlook data is in the .pst file. If you are missing your contacts, then your .pst file may be corrupt. How did you open that ..pst file? Can you create a new mail profile and configure it to use your saved .pst file? What version of Office/Outlook did you upgrade to 2007? You should always create a new mail profile after upgrading as the upgrade process invariably corrupts the mail profile.
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After furious head scratching, Clive McF asked:
| Ah yes, sound advice thanks and this is what I did to open my messages
| archived in .pst files. Works fine. But sadly, no contacts were
| transferred which is why I (naively, obviously) thought I'd need to
| import them separately. So I guess the question I should've asked is
| "Where does Outlook 2003 keep it's contacts, and how do I get them
| into 2007?" I did find a file called "Address Book" in a Microsoft
| folder, but since it was last accessed in 2003 and can't be opened as
| a data file (since it isn't a .pst file I suppose) I imagine it isn't
| relevant?
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
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|| Outlook hasn't used PAB files for years. Here are the complicated
|| instructions for accessing an Outlook data file:
|| File Open Outlook Data File...
|| Notice that you do not touch any command that says Import. Ever.
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|| Russ Valentine
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|| "Clive McF" Clive
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||| Could some kind soul let me know how to do this? So - added a new
||| hard drive,
||| upgraded o/s to xp, and Office to 2007. At this stage all the
||| original software still on the old hard drive and can be accessed
||| but not run. Outlook
||| 2003 doesn't seem to create .pab files (or at least I can't find
||| any such files on my drive), and if I try to import from a .pst
||| file, 2007's import function can't find .pst files created by 2003.
||| All advice would be very welcome.