All of my addresses in Outlook Express have mysteriously and suddenly
disappeared! Help!!!

Is that in the Contacts Pane or the main address book?

The Contacts pane will be blank if you have more than 999 contacts.
That's a limitation of it. You'll need to delete some contacts in order
to get that back.

If the main address book is blank, that can happen if you start or stop
sharing the Outlook contacts.
To share Contacts between Outlook and Outlook Express
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oeshare.htm

If you just started sharing, turn if off and you'll be back the OE
address book (WAB). If you've always shared, then the contacts are in
Outlook. You'll either need to start sharing again, or export the
contacts from Outlook and import in the WAB (with sharing turned off).

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Bryan" <Bryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3954223B-41CC-4E43-911E-5BB429DAD93E@microsoft.com...
> All of my addresses in Outlook Express have mysteriously and suddenly
> disappeared! Help!!!

Address Book, or Contacts pane?
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bryan" <Bryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3954223B-41CC-4E43-911E-5BB429DAD93E@microsoft.com...
> All of my addresses in Outlook Express have mysteriously and suddenly
> disappeared! Help!!!

The address book itself. I went into program files and opened up the WAB file
and it's empty too! There is seemingly no reason that this has happened. It
was as simple as I used my Outlook Express and then the next time I openned
it up to send an email everything was gone.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

> Address Book, or Contacts pane?
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP Outlook Express
> Imperial Beach, CA
>
>
> "Bryan" <Bryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3954223B-41CC-4E43-911E-5BB429DAD93E@microsoft.com...
> > All of my addresses in Outlook Express have mysteriously and suddenly
> > disappeared! Help!!!
>
>

Is MS Outlook also installed? If not, did you only find one WAB file in your
search? Did you do an Advanced search and include Hidden Files and Folders?

See this for other search options.
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/what.htm#wab-backup
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Bryan" <Bryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C18D4DD0-9BC3-47A1-8AEA-0FE922781BA5@microsoft.com...
> The address book itself. I went into program files and opened up the WAB
> file
> and it's empty too! There is seemingly no reason that this has happened.
> It
> was as simple as I used my Outlook Express and then the next time I
> openned
> it up to send an email everything was gone.
>
>
> "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
>
>> Address Book, or Contacts pane?
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP Outlook Express
>> Imperial Beach, CA
>>
>>
>> "Bryan" <Bryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3954223B-41CC-4E43-911E-5BB429DAD93E@microsoft.com...
>> > All of my addresses in Outlook Express have mysteriously and suddenly
>> > disappeared! Help!!!
>>
>>

Is it possible that there are now over 999 contacts in Address Book?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Bryan wrote:
> The address book itself. I went into program files and opened up the WAB
> file and it's empty too! There is seemingly no reason that this has
> happened. It was as simple as I used my Outlook Express and then the next
> time I openned it up to send an email everything was gone.
>
>> Address Book, or Contacts pane?
>> --
>>> All of my addresses in Outlook Express have mysteriously and suddenly
>>> disappeared! Help!!!