Bye bye address book.

[sobranie]

I use Outlook express .... O.K., rofl if you must.
Actioned the weekly MS critical updates a few days ago and, guess what, Outlook Express address book went walkies. For some outlandish reason they had been dumped in the recycle bin.
So, requested bin to restore and guess what, they went walkies to God knows where.
I have now partially reconstructed my address book but feel really p....d off with this, the 3rd occurence of a similar nature after an update.
Looked at a few web pages on the subject and this prob is not such an isolated instance as one would think and ftr a system restore does not bring back the address book, neither does sfc /scannow
So, if anyone else has had this happen I would suggest a manually managed back up address book in reserve could prove quite handy.

[Inactive]

Thanks for the heads up..

[Rik]

I back up the entire Documents and Settings structure daily, Sobranie. Although I don't keep much data there, my Outlook files are on E:, for example, it means that I can easily restore menus and application settings. System Restore is not, unfortunately, too good at restoring data files.

Try SyncBack, it's free and will do the job quickly and easily.

[Supanova]

egg sucking grandmother comment but have you tried running a search for missing document or maybe a search by file type?