synchronising Outlook 2007 contacts with backed up version

[cr]

Hi all,

I use Win XP Pro with a Nokia 'smartphone'. In early December, Nokia
invited me to download and install a new synchronisation package that
truncated some of the entries in my Outlook 2007 including the longer Notes
fields in my Contacts; I don't know what else I lost, but some 200 entries
were affected.

I had mirrored my HDD prior to this, and would like to use this archive to
recover the lost data. When the Outlook field on my computer incorporates
newer information than the mirrored version, I would like this incorporated.

As Nokia has not replied to repeated requests for help, I would be grateful
for any suggestions from this dicussion group.

Thank you in advance,

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Copy the backed-up pst-file to a convenient location such as \My
Documents\Outlook\

You can now reconnect to that pst-file via;
File-> Open-> Outlook Data File...

You can now copy over any data that got missing in your Nokia sync.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

I had mirrored my HDD prior to this, and would like to use this archive to
recover the lost data. When the Outlook field on my computer incorporates
newer information than the mirrored version, I would like this incorporated.

Robert describes the only built-in medthod for this. There are no tools in
Outlook that will merge items, taking some of the data from one and some of
the data from another.