address book location

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I have my c drive backed up on a portable hard disk. I had to reinstall
outlook on my computer. How do I restore my address book and emails from the
portable drive? I have looked for a .pst file and a .pab file on the
portable drive and cannot find it. Thanks.
 
you have to display hidden files. depends on your op sys on how you do it but
msoft has clear instructions
 
I displayed the hidden files and the .pst file still does not show up. If I
did not have it displayed when I did the backup, would it have saved the .pst
file? I thought if I did a full back up of everything on my C drive, it
would save everything.
 
jpurcell said:
I displayed the hidden files and the .pst file still does not show
up.
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You MUST have a PST, if you're a home user, or Outlook would not operate.
Ask Outlook where your PST resides. File>Data File Management or Control
Panel>Mail>Data Files.
If I did not have it displayed when I did the backup, would it
have saved the .pst file? I thought if I did a full back up of
everything on my C drive, it would save everything.
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Depends entirely on the backup software and how it is configured to operate.
 
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