Lost Address Book (2007)

[bfxtrfcmgr]

Using 'Easy Transfer' I moved OL from my XP machine to my Vista machine. Everything has been working just fine over the last week, until I went to use the "To:" button. I don't have an address book! No problem (I thought), I'll just designate the contacts folder as an address book and be done with it - except that option is greyed out. Uh, now what? I've looked at several posts, but they all had the advise to do what I had already attempted to do - designate "Contacts" as the address book. Any help greatly appreciated.

[jscher2000]

Does the first step here help? <post#=334705>post 334705</post#>

[bfxtrfcmgr]

Thanks, but I already went down that road ( a few times I think) - see pic. I'm wondering if OL 2007 is expecting to find the folder in a particular location? It's currently in UserName > Documents > My Contacts. (UserName and Documents are Vista folders; I created My Contacts).

[HansV]

Also see "Show this folder as an e-mail Address Book" check box is dimmed in Outlook Contact folder properties.

[bfxtrfcmgr]

Thanks Hans.
I went through the first advisory with no change in results. I couldn't complete the second section (remove/add address book) because the "X" for removal is grayed out.

[HansV]

Are you absolutely sure that you closed all instances of Outlook?

[bfxtrfcmgr]

I closed it from the file menu. . .is there something else I need to do? If there's something running in the background, I don't know how to deal with that and, MORE, I don't want nor have any need to have it running in the background (I don't like Bill Gates making decisions for me) :-)

[HansV]

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to start the Task Manager.
Activate the Processes tab.
If you are not the only user of the computer, click "Show processes from all users".
If Outlook.exe is in the list, you can select it and click "End Process".

[t8ntlikly]

Bryan,
Have you looked at your Data Files in your Account Settings by chance to see if they are associated properly?

[bfxtrfcmgr]

Sorry for the delay in my response. I ended up reinstalling OL, creating one contact, and then copying the contacts folder from the old PC to a CD and importing that file to the Vista machine. A bit cumbersome, but it worked.