Outlook Contacts

[mdpeters149]

The other day I was removing WinFax Pro per Symantec's instructions so that I
could load Internet Security 09. The computer froze up on me. When I
finally revived it, most of my desktop was obliterated. The weird thing is
that almost all of my shortcuts (including in the start menu) were gone. The
files were intact and where they were supposed to be but the shortcuts were
gone. My Office Suite reinitialized and is working fine. My contacts are
all gone. My question is where does Outlook store the contacts on the C:
drive so that I may go there and see if in fact they are still intact and get
about the business of recovering them.

 

[Gordon]

The other day I was removing WinFax Pro per Symantec's instructions so
that I
could load Internet Security 09. The computer froze up on me. When I
finally revived it, most of my desktop was obliterated. The weird thing
is
that almost all of my shortcuts (including in the start menu) were gone.
The
files were intact and where they were supposed to be but the shortcuts
were
gone. My Office Suite reinitialized and is working fine. My contacts are
all gone. My question is where does Outlook store the contacts on the C:
drive so that I may go there and see if in fact they are still intact and
get
about the business of recovering them.

Your Contacts are in the same pst file that all your email and calendar is
in.

 

[DL]

In Outlook are all your old mail & tasks etc still shown, or is it an empty
data file?

 

[mdpeters149]

Everything is empty in Outlook. I was wondering was is the standard address
of the pst file so that I can find it and see if it is corrupted?

 

[DL]

It would appear Outlook has started with a new empty data file.
Within Outlook select File>Open>Data File or
File>Open>Personal Folders (depends on Outlook version)
What files are shown?

 

[mdpeters149]

Nothing is shown under personal folders files

It would appear Outlook has started with a new empty data file.
Within Outlook select File>Open>Data File or
File>Open>Personal Folders (depends on Outlook version)
What files are shown?

 

[DL]

Search to include hidden (with outlook closed) for *.pst what is shown?