"Daryl Rose" wrote in message
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I didn't realize that deleting the
contacts from that list would wipe out the email address from the contacts.

One of the reasons you should never try to manipulate your Contacts via the
Address Book interface.

I don't see any way to "re-enable" anything. Can I recover the actual
contacts without recovering the entire Outlook.pst?

Open your most recent PST backup with FileOpenOutlook Data File. Open the
Contacts folder that PST contains, select all the Contacts in it, and copy
them to the main Contacts folder. You'll need to handle duplicates somehow.
One fairly easy way is to delete the contents of the main Contacts folder
before copying the enteries in the backup Contacts folder. If there are
entries in the main Contacts folder that aren't in the backup because you
added them after the backup, then copy those to the backup Contacts folder
first so you have a complete set. You can re-add those mail addresses
manually, as there shouldn't be many that need fixing.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]