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mwnowak1963
Hi Russ,
In searching for some help with my problem, I noticed you seemed to be
the resident expert on solving problems involving Microsoft Outlook. I
am running Windows XP SP2 and using Outlook 2002 V10 Build 4219.
I deleted my primary contacts folder (see below for the longer story).*
I then generated a second contacts folder and named it "Friends".
When I go to the Contacts folder (under my personal folder list) I have
series of blank gray bars and the title is "Contacts (blank)-(blank)".
If I click on any of these blank gray bars I open up the window showing
the specifics for a given entry in the recently created 'Friends"
contact list.
When I open the Address book, I get the typical error "The address list
could not be displayed. The Contacts folder associated.....(etc.)" If
I click OK, I still go to the Address Book window but it is empty for
the "Contacts" window. Under "Show names from the:" window I have two
Outlook Address Books entitled "Contacts" and "Friends". I can go to
the "Friends" contact list and all the entries are present. If I try
to add a new contact to the either the "Contacts" or "Friends" list I
get the error "A new entry could not be added. Please use the contacts
module to create this entry."
How does one restore the default Contact list? I backed up my hard
drive prior to deleting the default contacts folder. Should I just
simply restore the Outlook Express files (if possible)?
Thanks for any assistance,
Mark
*(This is a longer story. A while ago after crashing my computer I
could not open Outlook Express. It told me to me use a hidden recovery
program (the name of the program escapes but RecoveryPST comes to
mind). Anyways, after recovery my contact list ended up in a recovered
folder. Last week I deleted this recovered folder while cleaning out
some other folders. This is when all the other problems described
above started.)
In searching for some help with my problem, I noticed you seemed to be
the resident expert on solving problems involving Microsoft Outlook. I
am running Windows XP SP2 and using Outlook 2002 V10 Build 4219.
I deleted my primary contacts folder (see below for the longer story).*
I then generated a second contacts folder and named it "Friends".
When I go to the Contacts folder (under my personal folder list) I have
series of blank gray bars and the title is "Contacts (blank)-(blank)".
If I click on any of these blank gray bars I open up the window showing
the specifics for a given entry in the recently created 'Friends"
contact list.
When I open the Address book, I get the typical error "The address list
could not be displayed. The Contacts folder associated.....(etc.)" If
I click OK, I still go to the Address Book window but it is empty for
the "Contacts" window. Under "Show names from the:" window I have two
Outlook Address Books entitled "Contacts" and "Friends". I can go to
the "Friends" contact list and all the entries are present. If I try
to add a new contact to the either the "Contacts" or "Friends" list I
get the error "A new entry could not be added. Please use the contacts
module to create this entry."
How does one restore the default Contact list? I backed up my hard
drive prior to deleting the default contacts folder. Should I just
simply restore the Outlook Express files (if possible)?
Thanks for any assistance,
Mark
*(This is a longer story. A while ago after crashing my computer I
could not open Outlook Express. It told me to me use a hidden recovery
program (the name of the program escapes but RecoveryPST comes to
mind). Anyways, after recovery my contact list ended up in a recovered
folder. Last week I deleted this recovered folder while cleaning out
some other folders. This is when all the other problems described
above started.)