Can't find all my contacts after O2007 reinstall

[McGibb]

Please excuse a newbie here, spent the last couple of hours lookin
through the old posts but can't find the answer I need.

Due to system instabilities I've had to format my C drive and reinstal
Win 7 and of course everything else including Office 2007.

Made a copy of my outlook.pst file and have successfully linked tha
backup up after reinstall of Office. All emails, folders, contacts et
are there. Everything looked good until trying to send an email and th
contact I send to often did not appear.

I have my contacts grouped under a bunch of different folders withi
"My Contacts", usually based on their company name or how I know them
ie friends, church, company name etc. I also have a straight "Contacts
group/folder for all the ones that don't logically fit anywhere else.

If I go into "My Contacts", I see all groups and all contacts withi
each group, everything appears normal.

However, when sending an email, all I see are the addresses i
"Contacts", not any of the other groups.

On further investigation, in Datafile Management, under Adress books i
shows "Outlook Address Book" / MAPI. Clicking on change and show
"Contacts".
If I attempt add a new address book using "Additional Address Books"
(thinking I'd try and add "My Contacts") then choose Outllok AB is say
I can't as OAB can't be added twice.

Further info, I can send email if I go into My contacts, open up th
person in question and click the email button.

So anyone have any thoughts on how I can see ALL my contacts whe
sending emails?

Thanks in advance

 

[Russ Valentine]

If you could clarify this statement it would be very helpful: "have
successfully linked that backup up after reinstall of Office." Precisely
what you did would be very important to know.
Also, I assume from your description that you are asking about the Outlook
Address Book view. Is that correct? If so, you must enable any Contact
subfolders as electronic address book in their properties before they will
appear in that view. Have you done that?

 

[McGibb]

Hi Russ,

By relinking I meant, before I restinalled outlook I created an outloo
folder in c:\Users\user\appdata\local\microsoft, then copied my ol
outlook.pst into there.
Then after reinstall, outlook cretaed an oulook1.pst. In datafil
management I added outlook.pst as a data file, made it the default an
removed outlook1.pst from the list.
Closed and opened outlook. All appeared ok.

As far as the addres view, I'm not sure what you mean.
I mean that on the left side of outlook screen, you have icon for Mail
Calendar, Contacts etc. That's where I can see all my contacts.

Just looked at Properties of the contacts groups in "My Contacts", wen
to Outlook Address Book tab, ticked Show this folder as an email addres
book and now they show up fine.

You are a legend Russ, Thank you.

Why is this necessary?

Regards
Mark

 

[Russ Valentine]

The address book view is what I assumed you were using when you said you
couldn't find your contacts "when sending an email." But it was unclear what
view you were actually using.
The settings that determine whether a Contacts Folder will appear in the
address book view are unique to the profile, not the data file. Outlook only
enables the default Contacts Folder as an electronic address book in a new
profile. The rest you must do yourself, even though you migrated your data
file in exactly the right way.

 

[McGibb]

Thanks Russ,

That makes sense I suppose.
Appreciate your help.

Regards
Mark

 

[Russ Valentine]

Not sure it makes sense. But it is what it is. Outlook is a beast.