"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

If you had a valid backup of your Outlook data file, you could simply open
it and retrieve your Contacts form the Contacts Folder--precisely the way
Brian told you. What you have instead only you could know. You created your
backup.
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Russ,

Thank you for both of your replys, but if you had read my enitre post you
would have read that I did have a valid backup. I perform weekly backups of
my data. The only way that I see that I can recover is to recover the
entire outlook.pst file, and that would over write much of the changes that
I've done over the week. What Brain suggest did not work.

I just went back and re-read what Brian wrote. Perhaps you can clearify for
me the steps that he told me.

Brian wrote:
If you copy your PST (the correct way to make
a backup), then open the most recent with FIleOpenOutlook Data File. Your
contacts will be in that PSTs Contacts folder.

1. What is the correct why to make the backup?
I let vista backup & restore backup the .pst file, is that not the correct
way to backup the data?
2. When I FIleOpenOutlook Data File I receive an error telling me that
outlook.pst can't be opened. Well that makes sence since I already have it
open in order to do the FIleOpenOutlook Data

Now, what part of this am I getting wrong?

And as for being 100% user error, I disagree with that. If the Contacts is
where I store all of the contact information, then why does Outlook use the
"Address Book"? And don't tell me that it doesn't, because I see the names
and email addresses listed in the address book. As soon as I was able to
recover my email address the entire address book was populated again. And
when I click on the "To", or "CC" or "BCC", guess what comes up? Not my
contacts, but the address book. So it clearly uses an address book.

So once again thank you for your helpful replys Russ. Your help is alway's
apprecated. :-)

Daryl