I use Office Outlook 2003 and I've just deleted my Microsoft Exchange Server
settings without realising that it would take with it all my emails and
address book - I naively thought everything would stay the same but I just
wouldn't pick up mail from that account any more. I can't believe how easy
it was to do - no warnings about whether I was sure I wanted to do it. I can
do without the emails (which I can access on the server as I need them) but
want to replace the address book within Outlook. I've been told that I will
need some ost to pst conversion software but can't find this for less than
$200 (Kernel Ost) so far, so wondered if there was another way. The
irritating thing is that the contacts appear as predictive text when I type
into the address bar of an email, but if I click on the address book it says
it says 'the contacts folder associated with this address book could not be
opened'. Meanwhile a day of my life has gone by... Thanks for your time.

jc64 wrote:

I've been told that I will need some ost to pst
conversion software but can't find this for less than $200 (Kernel
Ost) so far, so wondered if there was another way.

If you wish to recover the data in the OST, you will need a third-party OST
to PST converter. There may be a freeware one available. Look for OST2PST.

The irritating
thing is that the contacts appear as predictive text when I type into
the address bar of an email, but if I click on the address book it
says it says 'the contacts folder associated with this address book
could not be opened'.

The autocompletion cache is not tied in any way to your contacts, although,
clearly, since you send mail to your contacts, at least some of them will be
in the autocompletion cache, which simply remembers the most recent 1,000
addresses to which you've sent mail. You can get a very good commercial
autocompletion cache manipulation tool at http://www.ingressor.com/ or you
can get a free tool that can save the contents of the cache as a CSV at
http://www.nk2.info/
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Thanks very much for your time Brian. Helpful suggestions - I will check
those links.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

jc64 wrote:

I've been told that I will need some ost to pst
conversion software but can't find this for less than $200 (Kernel
Ost) so far, so wondered if there was another way.

If you wish to recover the data in the OST, you will need a third-party OST
to PST converter. There may be a freeware one available. Look for OST2PST.

The irritating
thing is that the contacts appear as predictive text when I type into
the address bar of an email, but if I click on the address book it
says it says 'the contacts folder associated with this address book
could not be opened'.

The autocompletion cache is not tied in any way to your contacts, although,
clearly, since you send mail to your contacts, at least some of them will be
in the autocompletion cache, which simply remembers the most recent 1,000
addresses to which you've sent mail. You can get a very good commercial
autocompletion cache manipulation tool at http://www.ingressor.com/ or you
can get a free tool that can save the contents of the cache as a CSV at
http://www.nk2.info/
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]