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

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.

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





garydoyle wrote:
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.

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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.

"garydoyle" wrote in message
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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/as...771141033.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.