Where does outlook 2007 store contacts windows xp

They are now visible without activating "show hidden files", right? Again many, many thanks for your help and Happy New Year to you and yours Sigrid. My contact file as well as all the others are still being stored in the old location. Is there anyway to force them to move to the new location? Following your procedure I was able to easily move my outlook data files.

The only problem I'm having is that instead of showing the account name in the left hand column of outlook it's showing the name of the data file for each account. How can I rename these? Go into the account settings doesn't help. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Sign in. Where are my Outlook contacts stored? I need to back them up. But I don't know where they are. I use iCloud so I know some contacts are in iCloud but I'm trying to move them all over to Outlook because I don't like cloud computing.

But I have to have them all moved over before I can get out of the cloud once and for all. So where are those things hiding? Thank you for any help. This thread is locked. Older version of Outlook stored contacts in a seperate file. PST all you have to do is find that file on the old HDD save it to the new up and running HDD, then open out look and import the pst file, you will get back all the emails and contact that you had prior to the system crashing.

Thanks for the help. I opened each one by going to file - open - outlook data file and then selecting one. All I saw was old emails, though, and when I clicked on the address book in Outlook it was still empty. Am I missing something? Is there something else I need to to do import the address book? Any help is greatly appreciated! Ok, I tried that but I didn't get anything. Does it matter that this address book was originally done in Outlook and was synced to my Palm?

I can't remember if the contacts originated in my Palm OS or in Outlook, either. Sorry, I'm really out of my element, here! Thank you guys for all of your help I'll be adding positive feedback to all of you. Thanks again! So, what "mind" would that be?

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