Contacts lost when sync'ing iPhone

I recently added a new outlook email account. This came with an empty Contacts folder. When I sync'd my iPhone 6, my contacts were erased when iTunes sync'd with the empty Contacts folder. I tried directing iTunes in Settings/ Contacts to sync with the proper email Contacts folder, but no joy. My only solution to get back my contacts on the iPhone was to delete the new email account and resync.... my contacts were restored, but now I do not have access to the new email account. Anyone know how to direct the sync of Contacts?

I've been afraid to push the button and apparently for good reason. I managed to loose the iPhone contacts. Darn!! I'm pretty sure I got the directions correct. The one fake contact on the computer showed up on the iPhone but no contacts made it to the computer from the iPhone.
I have a variety of archives, but there's an issue there too. None have the .abbu extension, instead they have .abcddb extensions. They are greyed when attempting an import. I duplicated one and changed the extension to .abbu and thought I was on to something when the associated icon changed to show an AB file, but while it was selectable for import, it only went into the ether.
Any thoughts?

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