No *.pab

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Bob Vance

When I installed MS Office 2007 , I imported my *.wab to get my email
addresses now I have no *.pab to backup , a complete search gave my nothing
by my address book is working fine...Confused....Bob
 
Bob Vance said:
When I installed MS Office 2007 , I imported my *.wab to get my email
addresses now I have no *.pab to backup , a complete search gave my
nothing by my address book is working fine...Confused....Bob
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Outlook hasn't used a PAB since version 2002.....all your Contacts are to be
found in the Contacts folder within your pst file. The addressbook is merely
a view of that contacts folder, in order to facilitate inserting email
addresses into messages.
 
Correction, since version 2000 - it has been longer than you think. To back up all of your Outlook data, copy the .pst file when Outlook is completely closed.

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Bob Vance said:
When I installed MS Office 2007 , I imported my *.wab to get my email
addresses now I have no *.pab to backup , a complete search gave my
nothing by my address book is working fine...Confused....Bob
Click to expand...


Outlook hasn't used a PAB since version 2002.....all your Contacts are to be
found in the Contacts folder within your pst file. The addressbook is merely
a view of that contacts folder, in order to facilitate inserting email
addresses into messages.
 
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

(Milly's quoted-printable formatting corrected)
Correction, since version 2000 - it has been longer than you think.
To back up all of your Outlook data, copy the .pst file when Outlook
is completely closed.
Click to expand...

The Outlook Address Book (OAB) is not an actual address book. It is a
container in which address books are added. If the property for a
contact-type folder is enabled, it can be added to the OAB container.

In OL2002, you can still create or add a Personal Address Book (PAB) to
OAB: Tools -> Email Accounts -> Add a new directory or address book,
Additional Address Books, Personal Address Book (you can add only one).
If you add it and no longer want it or added it accidentally: Tools ->
Email Accounts -> View or change existing directories or address books,
select Personal Address Book, Remove (the reference gets removed, the
file does not get deleted). Adding or removing a PAB requires
restarting Outlook before the change is effected.

Unlike contact-type folders where you can set their properties as to
whether or not they are included in the OAB and are stored within the
..pst file, PABs are external .pab files.

You sure later versions (2003 and 2007) actually removed the PAB feature
rather than just bury it where no one looks anymore? My guess is that
Microsoft simply changed the naming from Personal Address Book to
Additional Address Book; see:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA101642081033.aspx?pid=CH102499811033

I don't use OL2007 so I don't know what filetypes might be listed when
adding a 3rd party address book. They do mention about converted the
old PABs into records to add to a contact-type folder at:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102434091033.aspx?pid=CH100622101033
 
Funny I imported my email addresses from Outlook express as the .pst I saved
from Outlook2002 into Outlook2007 ,I could not import it as a file. So had
to go to my old email addresses in Outlook express and lost half of them. I
still have a back up file backupcontacts.pst from Outlook2002 but cant
import them in. Also Outlook is telling me my new Personal Folders are in:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Well I cant find anything past Owner/ but I did change the name of my log
from Owner to Bob, on so that may have something to do with it!
So is there any chance I can import this backupcantacts.pst in to
Outlook2007
Outlook2007 is telling me that my Address Book is: Outlook Address Book
MAPI, is this correct
Thanks for any help please....Bob V

VanguardLH said:
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

(Milly's quoted-printable formatting corrected)
Correction, since version 2000 - it has been longer than you think.
To back up all of your Outlook data, copy the .pst file when Outlook
is completely closed.
Click to expand...

The Outlook Address Book (OAB) is not an actual address book. It is a
container in which address books are added. If the property for a
contact-type folder is enabled, it can be added to the OAB container.

In OL2002, you can still create or add a Personal Address Book (PAB) to
OAB: Tools -> Email Accounts -> Add a new directory or address book,
Additional Address Books, Personal Address Book (you can add only one).
If you add it and no longer want it or added it accidentally: Tools ->
Email Accounts -> View or change existing directories or address books,
select Personal Address Book, Remove (the reference gets removed, the
file does not get deleted). Adding or removing a PAB requires
restarting Outlook before the change is effected.

Unlike contact-type folders where you can set their properties as to
whether or not they are included in the OAB and are stored within the
.pst file, PABs are external .pab files.

You sure later versions (2003 and 2007) actually removed the PAB feature
rather than just bury it where no one looks anymore? My guess is that
Microsoft simply changed the naming from Personal Address Book to
Additional Address Book; see:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA101642081033.aspx?pid=CH102499811033

I don't use OL2007 so I don't know what filetypes might be listed when
adding a 3rd party address book. They do mention about converted the
old PABs into records to add to a contact-type folder at:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102434091033.aspx?pid=CH100622101033
Click to expand...
 
Oops found the folder in Hidden Folders, Tried to delete the pst and
replaced with my backupcontents by changing the name to Outlook.pst, but
that didn't work :( ...Bob

Bob Vance said:
Funny I imported my email addresses from Outlook express as the .pst I
saved from Outlook2002 into Outlook2007 ,I could not import it as a file.
So had to go to my old email addresses in Outlook express and lost half of
them. I still have a back up file backupcontacts.pst from Outlook2002 but
cant import them in. Also Outlook is telling me my new Personal Folders
are in:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Well I cant find anything past Owner/ but I did change the name of my log
from Owner to Bob, on so that may have something to do with it!
So is there any chance I can import this backupcantacts.pst in to
Outlook2007
Outlook2007 is telling me that my Address Book is: Outlook Address Book
MAPI, is this correct
Thanks for any help please....Bob V

VanguardLH said:
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

(Milly's quoted-printable formatting corrected)
Correction, since version 2000 - it has been longer than you think.
To back up all of your Outlook data, copy the .pst file when Outlook
is completely closed.
Click to expand...

The Outlook Address Book (OAB) is not an actual address book. It is a
container in which address books are added. If the property for a
contact-type folder is enabled, it can be added to the OAB container.

In OL2002, you can still create or add a Personal Address Book (PAB) to
OAB: Tools -> Email Accounts -> Add a new directory or address book,
Additional Address Books, Personal Address Book (you can add only one).
If you add it and no longer want it or added it accidentally: Tools ->
Email Accounts -> View or change existing directories or address books,
select Personal Address Book, Remove (the reference gets removed, the
file does not get deleted). Adding or removing a PAB requires
restarting Outlook before the change is effected.

Unlike contact-type folders where you can set their properties as to
whether or not they are included in the OAB and are stored within the
.pst file, PABs are external .pab files.

You sure later versions (2003 and 2007) actually removed the PAB feature
rather than just bury it where no one looks anymore? My guess is that
Microsoft simply changed the naming from Personal Address Book to
Additional Address Book; see:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA101642081033.aspx?pid=CH102499811033

I don't use OL2007 so I don't know what filetypes might be listed when
adding a 3rd party address book. They do mention about converted the
old PABs into records to add to a contact-type folder at:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102434091033.aspx?pid=CH100622101033
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
You never rename an Outlook file or try to connect to it by replacing
another PST file with it.
You simply open the file in Outlook:
File > Open > Outlook Data File. Anything else will corrupt your profile.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Bob Vance said:
Oops found the folder in Hidden Folders, Tried to delete the pst and
replaced with my backupcontents by changing the name to Outlook.pst, but
that didn't work :( ...Bob

Bob Vance said:
Funny I imported my email addresses from Outlook express as the .pst I
saved from Outlook2002 into Outlook2007 ,I could not import it as a file.
So had to go to my old email addresses in Outlook express and lost half
of them. I still have a back up file backupcontacts.pst from Outlook2002
but cant import them in. Also Outlook is telling me my new Personal
Folders are in:
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Well I cant find anything past Owner/ but I did change the name of my log
from Owner to Bob, on so that may have something to do with it!
So is there any chance I can import this backupcantacts.pst in to
Outlook2007
Outlook2007 is telling me that my Address Book is: Outlook Address Book
MAPI, is this correct
Thanks for any help please....Bob V

VanguardLH said:
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:

(Milly's quoted-printable formatting corrected)
Correction, since version 2000 - it has been longer than you think.
To back up all of your Outlook data, copy the .pst file when Outlook
is completely closed.

The Outlook Address Book (OAB) is not an actual address book. It is a
container in which address books are added. If the property for a
contact-type folder is enabled, it can be added to the OAB container.

In OL2002, you can still create or add a Personal Address Book (PAB) to
OAB: Tools -> Email Accounts -> Add a new directory or address book,
Additional Address Books, Personal Address Book (you can add only one).
If you add it and no longer want it or added it accidentally: Tools ->
Email Accounts -> View or change existing directories or address books,
select Personal Address Book, Remove (the reference gets removed, the
file does not get deleted). Adding or removing a PAB requires
restarting Outlook before the change is effected.

Unlike contact-type folders where you can set their properties as to
whether or not they are included in the OAB and are stored within the
.pst file, PABs are external .pab files.

You sure later versions (2003 and 2007) actually removed the PAB feature
rather than just bury it where no one looks anymore? My guess is that
Microsoft simply changed the naming from Personal Address Book to
Additional Address Book; see:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA101642081033.aspx?pid=CH102499811033

I don't use OL2007 so I don't know what filetypes might be listed when
adding a 3rd party address book. They do mention about converted the
old PABs into records to add to a contact-type folder at:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102434091033.aspx?pid=CH100622101033
Click to expand...
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