How to Copy entire contents of my Address Book to another drive

[garydoyle]

I need to copy or back-up the entire contents of my address book [all
contacts and personal information for each] to a removeable stick drive in
order to save and reinstall after my hard drive has been cleaned and
reformatted.

 

[Shawn76 via OfficeKB.com]

You can export it to a pst file, then save it to your thumb drive. Then
Import it back into Outlook after.


1. Open Outlook
2. Click File
3. Click Import/Export
4. Export to a file > Personal Folder File > highlight the top folder and
check the include subfolders box >
5. Browse to the location that you would like to save the PST file (i.e. your
desktop/thumb drive)
6. Click Finish

I need to copy or back-up the entire contents of my address book [all
contacts and personal information for each] to a removeable stick drive in
order to save and reinstall after my hard drive has been cleaned and
reformatted.

 

[Gordon]

You can export it to a pst file,

WRONG! You do NOT "export" to a pst file UNLESS the data is in MS Exchange.
Otherwise, just close Outlook and copy the pst file.

 

[Gordon]

I need to copy or back-up the entire contents of my address book [all
contacts and personal information for each] to a removeable stick drive in
order to save and reinstall after my hard drive has been cleaned and
reformatted.

This is posted and answered SO MANY TIMES in these groups, on a daily basis.
Did you not think to do ANY searching first?
How to backup and restore Outlook

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx

There is out-dated information on some of these pages, specifically with
regard to Outlook 2003 and 2007.

The main points to note:
1. Do NOT use the import/export function to move Outlook data from one
version to another - all you need to do is to copy the pst file, with
Outlook closed.

2. Do NOT paste the copied pst file into the default location - paste into
(for example) your Documents folder and then do File-Open-Outlook Data File
within Outlook.