Accidentaly deleted all contacts in outlook 2007(vista) PLEASE HELP!!

The titlte says it all, I hade like a 1000+ contacts... I have vista bussiness so I thought I could maybie use "pervious version" of the folder they are in, but i dont know where that is.. I tried system restore, didnt help

 

Dumb question but did you check to see if there were any restore points you could use? Recycle bin?

 

system restore is the first thing i tried, and it it isnt in the recycle bin, the reason it got deleted is that I was playing with my pocket pc, and deleted all the contacts in there while it was conected to the pc

 

So they're not in either place? pc or cell? If not try looking for a .pst file. Outlook stores your Contacts with the rest of your Outlook data in a Personal Folders file that has a PST file extension.
in Vista check here C:\Users\you\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
if not, don't know what to tell ya

 

Howardforums would be a better place to get an answer on this matter.

Did you have any Exchange Server, or did it delete the contacts of that too?

 

omg.... thank you soooo much, got everything back what is the best way to make a backup of the contacts?


Edit: they were mainly cell# and I use a gmail pop server

 

I use Sprite Backup=-works great for my WM5 smartphone
Here's the link-
http://www.spritesoftware.com/

 

I mean export on the pc, I always have trouble importing csv's

 

So you found an .pst file with the contacts, even after contacts were deleted?

 

The best way is to do an export. From the file menu you'll see Import and Export. Select Export it will bring you to a screen that will ask you in what format you want. I always select .PST format because I backup my contacts. calendar, to do list etc all into the same .PST file. This is important! Check the subfolder box as it will backup everything from your personal folder file including what's in your Inbox.

Click on next and it will ask if you want to assign a password to your file for security. Don't lose the password because YOU WILL NEED IT WHEN YOU RESTORE THAT FILE.

Click next and it will ask where you want to save the file and you can also give it a name although "backup.pst" is the default.

 

I sync my WM phone with my XP & Vista. Also auto syncs with my Mail2Web Exchange. So it's damn near impossible to loss my contacts

 

yea.. the file was still there, it was just empty, I right-clicked on the folder containing it, and restored it to a couple days ago

 

glad it worked out for ya-yup-previous versions is nice.

:smile:

 

Lucky your running Vista.

Since you have two PC's it's best to sync your phone with both of them being that it would be impossible to wipe out both at the same time. That's what I do, but with differ partitions (XP & Vista) instead.

 

I use Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup and backup every time I close outlook. To another partition also. This MS program is designed for 2003, but it's been working on my version of Outlook 2007 just fine.