How to Back up Your Outlook Auto-Complete List
Microsoft Outlook keeps a list of recently used email addresses that you typed in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields of an email message. Outlook keeps most of your essential data in a PST file, like your email messages, contacts list, and calendar items. The autocomplete list that displays when you start typing a name or email address is stored in a hidden message.
Check your Office version. Open Outlook and go to File > Office Account (or Account) > About Outlook. You’ll see either 64-bit or 32-bit listed at the top. Close Outlook. Download MFCMAPI. There’s a 32-bit and a 64-bit version of MFCMAPI. Download the right one for your version of MS Office, not for your Windows version. Extract the MFCMAPI. exe file from the ZIP archive, then open the EXE file. In MFCMAPI, go to Session > Logon. Select the Profile Name drop-down arrow and choose the desired profile. There may be one called Outlook. Select OK. In the Display Name column, double-click your Outlook email profile. In the viewer, select the arrow to the left of Root to expand it. Expand IPM_SUBTREE. If you don’t see IPM_SUBTREE, choose Top of Information Store or Top of Outlook data file. Right-click Inbox. Select Open associated contents table. Go to the Subject section, right-click IPM. Configuration. Autocomplete, and then choose Export message. In the Save Message To File window, select the Format to save message dropdown arrow and choose MSG file (UNICODE). Select OK.
Save the MSG file somewhere safe. You can now exit MFCMAPI and use Outlook normally.
