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It is not unusual for the Outlook Address Book to "lose track" of the
connection to its Contacts Folder when you move or import your PST or update
your Outlook version or OS. Use the following steps to reset the connection,
depending on your Outlook version. Note that in some instances you may
actually have to remove the Outlook Address Book completely from your
Profile, close Outlook, and then re-add it before you can get it to work.
Outlook 2000, Corp/Workgroup:
Go to Tools > Services. Make sure the Outlook Address Book service is
listed. If not, add it. Next, R click on the Contact folder or folders you
want the OAB to display, choose "Properties", go to the Outlook Address Book
tab and check the "Show this folder as an E-mail address book" box. You may
also need to go to Tools > Options > Addressing Tab and choose to show your
Contacts folder.
Outlook 2002:
Go to Tools | E-mail accounts, select "View or change existing directories
or address books", and click OK. If you don't see the OAB in the Directories
and Address Books list, click the Back button, then select "Add a new
directory or address book", then "Additional Address Books", and add the
OAB. Then keep clicking Back until you get back to the first dialog box,
and go back to the Directories and Address Books list as you did earlier.
Once the OAB appears in the list, select it and then click Change to make
sure the Contacts folder(s) you want to display are listed. If any of them
aren't listed, you'll need to enable those Contacts folders as Outlook
Address Books by right clicking the folder, selecting Properties, clicking
the Outlook Address Book tab, and checking the "Show this folder as an
E-mail address book" box. Make sure you restart Outlook after making these
changes.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Rafael said:
Recently we had a problem with a computer where it lost Outlook data while
transferring from Domain to Workgroup login, I copied the data file and
retrieved all the mail and contacts, however if the user tried to compose
mail and clicks on To: an error shows up saying that address book could not
be loaded, perhapas we dont have rights etc etc. Same message comes up if
we try to go into the Address Book directly. If I click on contacts folder
everything works ok and all contacts are there. Is there any way we can fix
this? (and the option to go gack to the old account and change rights for
the folder is not possible as we can not access that domain anymore or
change back to old login. that is what outlook help suggested)
