Why did new outlook wipe out address book and old email?

[writa]

As far as I know, the only thing I did was download some required office
downloads. I go to get my emai and everything is wiped out. my old emails,
my address book. I needed that. How do I get it back?

 

[Brian Tillman]

As far as I know, the only thing I did was download some required
office downloads. I go to get my emai and everything is wiped out.
my old emails, my address book. I needed that. How do I get it back?

Enable searching hidden files and folders and look for files with the
extension ".pst". WHen you fine one that Outlook doesn't already know
about, open it in Outlook with File>Open>Outlook Data File. If it's your
data, you can change your delivery locaton to be that PST instead of the
current one.