Re: Outlook 2000 Contacts folder

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From: Puddin' Man (Pudding_Man_at_mail.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:27:06 GMT

I start (as always) by making a backup copy of the primary
.pst file. Then I copied profile xxx and named it xxx2. Then
OL2K wouldn't load/run, so I deleted xxx2. When I got it
running again, OL2K had destroyed all the settings in both
Inet Email services. I had to rebuild them practically from
scratch. Where are these rascals stored? How can I back
them up?

When OL2K is running, the 'folder list' looks like:

  Outlook Today (.pst file spec)
    calendar
    contacts
    <etc>
  Personal folders
    calendar
    contacts
    <etc>

The Outlook Today contacts has about 20 entries with
name, Email address, etc. I can see the Email addresses
but they won't come up in the To: field unless I
cut/paste them.

I exported the Outlook Today contacts to a DOS .csv,
then imported it into Personal folders contacts. The
names came up OK, but 95% of the Email addresses
were blank.

Does this suggest anything?

About 80% of the time, when I ask OL2K to perform
a simple operation, it does something quite,
quite, unpredictable.

  Thx,
  Puddin'

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:58:08 -0500, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<russval@mvps.org> wrote:

>In Corp/Workgroup it's easy to start clean by simply creating a new PST
>file, then remove and readd the Personal Folders Service, this time
>directing it to the new PST file. Then you can close the old one. Make sure
>you restart Outlook between each of these steps.
>
>Or you can just create a new profile from scratch.
>--
>Russ Valentine
>[MVP-Outlook]
>"Puddin' Man" <Pudding_Man@mail.com> wrote in message
>news:4144abdb.21234673@news.east.earthlink.net...
>> My apologies. I should've explained the entire history.
>>
>> I installed Office 2000 Pro under W2k around 2000.
>> Outlook installed/config'd as "Corporate or Workgroup".
>> At that time, I was connecting to an MS Exchange server.
>> Around 2002 I deleted the MSX profile and re-configured
>> for 2 POP servers (internet mail).
>>
>> Help now sez Outlook 2000 9.0.0.2711 "Corporate or Workgroup".
>>
>> There are currently 5 services set up in my profile:
>> 2 for POP servers
>> 1 for the .pst
>> 1 for Outlook Address Book
>> 1 for Personal Folders
>>
>> Hopefully some of the info below that you've very nicely
>> outlined will still be useful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Puddin'
>>
>> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:52:00 -0500, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
>> <russval@mvps.org> wrote:
>>
>>>Gory indeed.
>>>It's a little harder to do this in IMO than in the full version of Outlook
>>>because there aren't the repair options that the full version has.
>>>There are a couple of options, however. I'd try them in this order:
>>>
>>>1. Create a new PST file and set it to be the default. After that you
>>>might
>>>even able to copy items from the old PST into the new one that you create,
>>>then close the old one one. Here are the detailed steps:
>>>- File menu > Open > Personal Folders file > migrate to the new PST file
>>>location to open it
>>>- Right-click on the root of the new set of folders in the folder pane
>>>(View
>>> > Folder List)
>>>- Choose Properties
>>>- Check the "Deliver POP mail" box
>>>- Quit & restart Outlook
>>>- Now you can Close the PST file that you were previously using (R-click
>>>on
>>>that pst folder while in Folder View and select "Close <foldername>
>>>Folders"). If you have any information in your former PST that you'd like
>>>to
>>>transfer to your new default PST, you can drag and drop from one to the
>>>other before you close the old one.
>>>
>>>2. Force IMO to create a new profile by deleting your current one in the
>>>registry. The next time you launch Outlook you will start you off with a
>>>clean PST file. You might then be able to open your old PST file and
>>>retrieve some data from it. To create a new "profile" in IMO, quit Outlook
>>>export (for safety) then delete this key:
>>>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Messaging
>>>Subsystem\Profiles\Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings (Path may vary
>>>somewhat with the operating system)
>>>Restart Outlook. It will create a new profile automatically.
>>>
>>>We'll hope for better luck this time. I'm not sure I recognized you were
>>>using IMO before.That would explain a lot of the difficulties we had.
>>>--
>>>Russ Valentine
>>>[MVP-Outlook]
>>>"Puddin' Man" <Pudding_Man@mail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:414354ac.20148622@news.east.earthlink.net...
>>>> Re: Outlook 2000 Contacts folder
>>>>
>>>> 'allo,
>>>>
>>>> I run W2k Pro sp4 / Office 2k on a little desktop at home.
>>>> The OS is up-to-date. Outlook 2000 is at 9.0.0.9211 and I
>>>> currently use it for internet Email (only).
>>>>
>>>> The Contacts folder is corrupt and cannot be repaired.
>>>> Gory details are in thread "Outlook 2000 Contacts folder
>>>> dysfunctional" (not recommended reading).
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone explain how I might go about deleting (or
>>>> renaming or whatever) the old Contacts folder and
>>>> starting a new one from "scratch"?
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Puddin'
>>>>
>>>>
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