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Can I retrieve my Outlook Address book?

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Posted March 14, 2013 at 5:45PM

I just built a Windows 7 machine and included my old Hard Drive without exporting the address book.

I really don't want to have to take it back out and re-instate my old machine just for this.

The old HDD is in my machine as 'G' drive.

Is there a way I can retrieve the Address Book from here?

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Posted March 15, 2013 at 12:16PM

You need to give yourself permission. Right click on the file and select properties then select the security tab and then make sure that you have full control.

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Posted March 15, 2013 at 12:25PM

That is odd.

According to this I have Full Control. The only box which isn't ticked is 'Special Permissions' and I can't work out how to tick it.

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Posted March 15, 2013 at 12:28PM

Actually, although the boxes are ticked they are also greyed out. I have just had a look at other files and the ticks are black.

I wonder if that anomaly has something to do with this. If it does how can I resolve it?

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Posted March 15, 2013 at 1:56PM

This may help Wikihow

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Posted March 17, 2013 at 4:23PM

I need further help on this.

I finally managed to get it to accept the .pst file and several hours later it finished 'importing'.

But the address book is still blank!!!

I tried closing and opening Outlook and I tried re-booting but it is still not updated.

Am I missing a trick?

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Posted March 17, 2013 at 4:39PM

To update this:

I now have all my emails dating back to when I started the previous machine in 2011 so it has, it seems to me accepted the .pst file.

I could have lived without the emails it is the address I need.

Where will I find the addresses? I had assumed they would be automatically placed in the address book.

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Posted March 17, 2013 at 6:04PM

Have you looked at contacts to see if your old contacts are there? When you state "address book" what exactly do you mean? Is this when you start a new e-mail?

I assume that you haven't been backing up your Outlook contacts. I would have exported the contacts as a separate pst file before I removed the hard drive from the old computer. It would have been fairly straightforward to have then imported them from a memory stick.

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Posted March 17, 2013 at 6:22PM

Woolwell Well I didn't and am now trying to retrieve something.

I have managed to import a .wab file.

The result is that when I click on the Address book in the ribbon it is blank.

However when I click on the Contacts at the bottom (of Outlook)there are four folders. Two say suggested Contacts and are blank, one says Contacts and is blank and I assume this is the one that I open when I open Address Book.

The fourth is called Contacts as well and it contains all my addresses.

The next question is how do I get this to show either in my Address Book or when I click on 'To', 'cc' etc in a new email, or both?

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Posted March 17, 2013 at 7:43PM

The suggested addresses in the To, cc, etc build over time from email addresses that you create. It used to be in a NK2 file but this has changed with Outlook 2010. I don't use Outlook 2010 so I'm on new territory. This may help How to import suggested contacts

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Posted March 17, 2013 at 7:49PM

Missed about address book. When you create a new e-mail then address book should show. There should be a drop down arrow which should allow you to chose contacts. Read this too.

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