Outlook Ins & Outs

How to recreate contact entries-addressbook from email folders

There are times when all contacts are lost with the result being that the Address Book is empty. One such case is when contacts are stored in an IMAP contact folder with the added description of “This Computer Only” and the OST file is recreated by Outlook.

In order to recreate the email addresses from email messages sent or received, the method to use to perform this recovery is as follows

The above steps need to be done once for each email address field in the messages being exported and once for each email folder that you want to export from (i.e. Inbox, Sent Items etc)

 

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