Deleted contacts from address book; now cannot reload them

[GrammaBallard]

I batch deleted all the contacts from my addressbook (the individual
contacts rather than the entire addressbook) Now I need them back. To
restore theoriginal contact addresses, I removed my current Outlook address
book and created a new one. I restarted Outlook and then designated the
original contacts folder as the new address book. Now the new address book
shows the contact folder but comes up blank--it doesn't recognize the
entries. I've run inbox repair but am still having the same issue. Is there
anything I can do to fix the problem?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Since Outlook does not even have an address book, you will need to provide a
more accurate description of what you did.
In Outlook, Contacts can only be manipulated from within a Contacts Folder,
where is the only place they reside. Any Contact you delete from there you
simply retrieve from the Deleted Items folder.