Recovering deleted contacts

[greg975]

I have Outlook 2003 on my personal (non-work) laptop. I inadvertently
deleted some contacts. I didnt delete by moving the files into the deleted
items folder. How do I recover them? I tried system restore and that didnt
work. I tried going into the registry as suggested here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/246153 and that didnt work. I
also searched for .pst folders, found them, and opened them from outlook, but
the particular contact folder didnt show up.

Thanks for any help you could provide.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Restore from your most recent backup.
When you delete Outlook data, you delete it. System restore never recovers
data. The article is not relevant because you are not running against
Exchange server. That's why you backed up your data yourself.