Missing contacts

I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows XP Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal contacts that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact was no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and saw that many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing contact in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I chose the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I clicked the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in that view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so I may have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know and I don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake

No way to know. Outlook does not do this all by itself. You would need to
provide the steps you used to create the problem. You should also post in a
BCM group. Using BCM changes everything.
Do you backup your data?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows XP Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal contacts
that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact was no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and saw that
many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing contact in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I chose the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I clicked the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in that view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so I may
have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know and I don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake

I just gave you all the steps I took when I found I had the problem. I
didn't take ANY steps that I know of to CREATE the problem. Some of the
contacts just aren't showing up. I don't think Business Contact Manager had
anything to do with it. I installed BCM a couple of months ago and didn't
like it so stopped using it. I did search for my missing contacts in BCM
just in case they somehow ended up there but they weren't showing up there
either. I do back up outlook frequently and it backs up automatically when I
exit outlook. I also sync a Pocket PC with outlook and the Pocket PC has the
missing contacts on it's contact list.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No way to know. Outlook does not do this all by itself. You would need to
provide the steps you used to create the problem. You should also post in a
BCM group. Using BCM changes everything.
Do you backup your data?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows XP Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal contacts
that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact was no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and saw that
many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing contact in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I chose the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I clicked the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in that view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so I may
have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know and I don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake

No. You gave no steps at all. Now you have. Syncing incorrectly is the
number one cause for Contacts that go "missing for no reason."
Anyone who uses syncing backs up their data frequently because syncing
changes are permanent. I trust you do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I just gave you all the steps I took when I found I had the problem. I
didn't take ANY steps that I know of to CREATE the problem. Some of the
contacts just aren't showing up. I don't think Business Contact Manager
had
anything to do with it. I installed BCM a couple of months ago and didn't
like it so stopped using it. I did search for my missing contacts in BCM
just in case they somehow ended up there but they weren't showing up there
either. I do back up outlook frequently and it backs up automatically
when I
exit outlook. I also sync a Pocket PC with outlook and the Pocket PC has
the
missing contacts on it's contact list.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No way to know. Outlook does not do this all by itself. You would need to
provide the steps you used to create the problem. You should also post in
a
BCM group. Using BCM changes everything.
Do you backup your data?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows XP
Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal
contacts
that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact was no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and saw
that
many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing contact
in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I chose the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my
missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I clicked the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in that
view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so I may
have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know and I
don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake

In further playing around with this it seems the missing contacts are only
missing in the "phone list" view. When clicking on the other radial buttons
the missing contacts are listed. Any idea why some are missing in phone list
view and how do I get all of them to show up?
--
Jake


"Jake" wrote:

I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows XP Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal contacts that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact was no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and saw that many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing contact in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I chose the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I clicked the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in that view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so I may have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know and I don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake

I have been syncing Pocket PC's for years and have never had this happen
before. So what do I do to not sync "incorrectly" since it's pretty much an
automated process once the PPC is inserted in the cradle?

See the other post I was posting when your message arrived. The contacts are
only missing in the 'phone list' view. They are there in all the other
views. Now how do I get all them visible in the phone list?
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No. You gave no steps at all. Now you have. Syncing incorrectly is the
number one cause for Contacts that go "missing for no reason."
Anyone who uses syncing backs up their data frequently because syncing
changes are permanent. I trust you do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I just gave you all the steps I took when I found I had the problem. I
didn't take ANY steps that I know of to CREATE the problem. Some of the
contacts just aren't showing up. I don't think Business Contact Manager
had
anything to do with it. I installed BCM a couple of months ago and didn't
like it so stopped using it. I did search for my missing contacts in BCM
just in case they somehow ended up there but they weren't showing up there
either. I do back up outlook frequently and it backs up automatically
when I
exit outlook. I also sync a Pocket PC with outlook and the Pocket PC has
the
missing contacts on it's contact list.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No way to know. Outlook does not do this all by itself. You would need to
provide the steps you used to create the problem. You should also post in
a
BCM group. Using BCM changes everything.
Do you backup your data?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows XP
Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal
contacts
that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact was no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and saw
that
many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing contact
in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I chose the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my
missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I clicked the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in that
view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so I may
have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know and I
don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake

Syncing questions are not Outlook questions. Outlook does not participate in
that process at all.
Your description is still too vague to permit help from a distance. Try to
characterize and describe what's "missing" as accurately as possible. It
sounds like there may be nothing missing at all and that your views may be
corrupted or damaged.
But do start backing up your data completely and often.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I have been syncing Pocket PC's for years and have never had this happen
before. So what do I do to not sync "incorrectly" since it's pretty much
an
automated process once the PPC is inserted in the cradle?

See the other post I was posting when your message arrived. The contacts
are
only missing in the 'phone list' view. They are there in all the other
views. Now how do I get all them visible in the phone list?
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No. You gave no steps at all. Now you have. Syncing incorrectly is the
number one cause for Contacts that go "missing for no reason."
Anyone who uses syncing backs up their data frequently because syncing
changes are permanent. I trust you do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I just gave you all the steps I took when I found I had the problem. I
didn't take ANY steps that I know of to CREATE the problem. Some of
the
contacts just aren't showing up. I don't think Business Contact
Manager
had
anything to do with it. I installed BCM a couple of months ago and
didn't
like it so stopped using it. I did search for my missing contacts in
BCM
just in case they somehow ended up there but they weren't showing up
there
either. I do back up outlook frequently and it backs up automatically
when I
exit outlook. I also sync a Pocket PC with outlook and the Pocket PC
has
the
missing contacts on it's contact list.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No way to know. Outlook does not do this all by itself. You would need
to
provide the steps you used to create the problem. You should also post
in
a
BCM group. Using BCM changes everything.
Do you backup your data?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows XP
Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal
contacts
that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact was
no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and saw
that
many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing
contact
in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I chose
the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my
missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I clicked
the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in that
view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so I
may
have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know and I
don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake

I don't know how I can be any more specific! I specifically said I BACK UP
FREQUENTLY and I secifically said Outlook AUTOMATICALLY BACKS UP when it
exits. I specifically said SOME contacts are missing from my phone book view
but not the other views. How much more specific can I be than that. They are
not visible in phone book view! I am not now doing anything to make them
disappear! I didn't do anything in the past to make them disappear that I
know of. There is nothing I can tell you that is more specific than that. I
don't understand your focus on backing up and on syncing. Neither of the two
functions of backing up or syncing that I know of contributed to the missing
contacts and if they did can you be more specific on what I need to do to
bring them back to the phone book view.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Syncing questions are not Outlook questions. Outlook does not participate in
that process at all.
Your description is still too vague to permit help from a distance. Try to
characterize and describe what's "missing" as accurately as possible. It
sounds like there may be nothing missing at all and that your views may be
corrupted or damaged.
But do start backing up your data completely and often.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I have been syncing Pocket PC's for years and have never had this happen
before. So what do I do to not sync "incorrectly" since it's pretty much
an
automated process once the PPC is inserted in the cradle?

See the other post I was posting when your message arrived. The contacts
are
only missing in the 'phone list' view. They are there in all the other
views. Now how do I get all them visible in the phone list?
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No. You gave no steps at all. Now you have. Syncing incorrectly is the
number one cause for Contacts that go "missing for no reason."
Anyone who uses syncing backs up their data frequently because syncing
changes are permanent. I trust you do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I just gave you all the steps I took when I found I had the problem. I
didn't take ANY steps that I know of to CREATE the problem. Some of
the
contacts just aren't showing up. I don't think Business Contact
Manager
had
anything to do with it. I installed BCM a couple of months ago and
didn't
like it so stopped using it. I did search for my missing contacts in
BCM
just in case they somehow ended up there but they weren't showing up
there
either. I do back up outlook frequently and it backs up automatically
when I
exit outlook. I also sync a Pocket PC with outlook and the Pocket PC
has
the
missing contacts on it's contact list.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No way to know. Outlook does not do this all by itself. You would need
to
provide the steps you used to create the problem. You should also post
in
a
BCM group. Using BCM changes everything.
Do you backup your data?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows XP
Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal
contacts
that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact was
no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and saw
that
many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing
contact
in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I chose
the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my
missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I clicked
the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in that
view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so I
may
have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know and I
don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake

You can define for us what you mean by "phone book view." There is no such
term in Outlook. You can define which Contacts are missing. This is a vastly
different description from your first post. There you said you were having
problems with Outlook lookup also without defining what you meant by that.
You'll need to provide a clear and consistent description of the problem you
are having for anyone to help in a newsgroup.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I don't know how I can be any more specific! I specifically said I BACK UP
FREQUENTLY and I secifically said Outlook AUTOMATICALLY BACKS UP when it
exits. I specifically said SOME contacts are missing from my phone book
view
but not the other views. How much more specific can I be than that. They
are
not visible in phone book view! I am not now doing anything to make them
disappear! I didn't do anything in the past to make them disappear that I
know of. There is nothing I can tell you that is more specific than that.
I
don't understand your focus on backing up and on syncing. Neither of the
two
functions of backing up or syncing that I know of contributed to the
missing
contacts and if they did can you be more specific on what I need to do to
bring them back to the phone book view.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Syncing questions are not Outlook questions. Outlook does not participate
in
that process at all.
Your description is still too vague to permit help from a distance. Try
to
characterize and describe what's "missing" as accurately as possible. It
sounds like there may be nothing missing at all and that your views may
be
corrupted or damaged.
But do start backing up your data completely and often.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I have been syncing Pocket PC's for years and have never had this happen
before. So what do I do to not sync "incorrectly" since it's pretty
much
an
automated process once the PPC is inserted in the cradle?

See the other post I was posting when your message arrived. The
contacts
are
only missing in the 'phone list' view. They are there in all the other
views. Now how do I get all them visible in the phone list?
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No. You gave no steps at all. Now you have. Syncing incorrectly is the
number one cause for Contacts that go "missing for no reason."
Anyone who uses syncing backs up their data frequently because syncing
changes are permanent. I trust you do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I just gave you all the steps I took when I found I had the problem.
I
didn't take ANY steps that I know of to CREATE the problem. Some of
the
contacts just aren't showing up. I don't think Business Contact
Manager
had
anything to do with it. I installed BCM a couple of months ago and
didn't
like it so stopped using it. I did search for my missing contacts
in
BCM
just in case they somehow ended up there but they weren't showing up
there
either. I do back up outlook frequently and it backs up
automatically
when I
exit outlook. I also sync a Pocket PC with outlook and the Pocket
PC
has
the
missing contacts on it's contact list.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No way to know. Outlook does not do this all by itself. You would
need
to
provide the steps you used to create the problem. You should also
post
in
a
BCM group. Using BCM changes everything.
Do you backup your data?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows
XP
Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal
contacts
that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact
was
no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and
saw
that
many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing
contact
in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I
chose
the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my
missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I
clicked
the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in
that
view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so
I
may
have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know
and I
don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake

Ok lets try this again..... Outlook 2007 has a left panel. Clicking Contacts
in the lower portion of that panel opens a Contacts page. The left panel
contains a section titled Current View. Under Current View are a number of
view options (business cards, address cards, etc) with radial buttons. When
the Phone List (sorry, my bad it's Phone List not Phone Book.) button is
pressed the center panel shows all the contacts you have in your contact
list. Only problem is mine doesn't show ALL my contacts. Some are not shown
on that list. You use Outlook right? Contacts are those people and
companies you enter so you have a record of them in Outlook! You view them as
Business Cards, Address Cards or in a phone list. Got that?

My first post did NOT say I was having problems with Outlook lookup. I said
some of my contacts were not showing up in the phone list and therefore I
performed a search to see if they had been somehow deleted. A "search" is an
operation where you enter a search term in the search box located toward the
top right hand section of the page titled "search contacts" in the
expectation of it locating the contact you are seeking. After entering the
name of the contact in the "search contacts" box my missing contact was not
found. I then clicked the "search all contacts" option that had appeared in
the main search window. That search resulted in finding my missing contact
but it was being displayed as a Business Card. Out of curiosity I clicked
the Business Card radial and the full list of contacts was displayed.
Subsiquently I realized all the view options showed my missing contacts
EXCEPT for the phone list option where a number of them are not displayed.

I never said I was having problems with lookups, syncing or backing up.....
you were the one that kept interjecting those issues.

Now do you or anyone else have a suggestion of how to get the "phone list"
view to show ALL my contacts?
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You can define for us what you mean by "phone book view." There is no such
term in Outlook. You can define which Contacts are missing. This is a vastly
different description from your first post. There you said you were having
problems with Outlook lookup also without defining what you meant by that.
You'll need to provide a clear and consistent description of the problem you
are having for anyone to help in a newsgroup.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I don't know how I can be any more specific! I specifically said I BACK UP
FREQUENTLY and I secifically said Outlook AUTOMATICALLY BACKS UP when it
exits. I specifically said SOME contacts are missing from my phone book
view
but not the other views. How much more specific can I be than that. They
are
not visible in phone book view! I am not now doing anything to make them
disappear! I didn't do anything in the past to make them disappear that I
know of. There is nothing I can tell you that is more specific than that.
I
don't understand your focus on backing up and on syncing. Neither of the
two
functions of backing up or syncing that I know of contributed to the
missing
contacts and if they did can you be more specific on what I need to do to
bring them back to the phone book view.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Syncing questions are not Outlook questions. Outlook does not participate
in
that process at all.
Your description is still too vague to permit help from a distance. Try
to
characterize and describe what's "missing" as accurately as possible. It
sounds like there may be nothing missing at all and that your views may
be
corrupted or damaged.
But do start backing up your data completely and often.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I have been syncing Pocket PC's for years and have never had this happen
before. So what do I do to not sync "incorrectly" since it's pretty
much
an
automated process once the PPC is inserted in the cradle?

See the other post I was posting when your message arrived. The
contacts
are
only missing in the 'phone list' view. They are there in all the other
views. Now how do I get all them visible in the phone list?
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No. You gave no steps at all. Now you have. Syncing incorrectly is the
number one cause for Contacts that go "missing for no reason."
Anyone who uses syncing backs up their data frequently because syncing
changes are permanent. I trust you do.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I just gave you all the steps I took when I found I had the problem.
I
didn't take ANY steps that I know of to CREATE the problem. Some of
the
contacts just aren't showing up. I don't think Business Contact
Manager
had
anything to do with it. I installed BCM a couple of months ago and
didn't
like it so stopped using it. I did search for my missing contacts
in
BCM
just in case they somehow ended up there but they weren't showing up
there
either. I do back up outlook frequently and it backs up
automatically
when I
exit outlook. I also sync a Pocket PC with outlook and the Pocket
PC
has
the
missing contacts on it's contact list.
--
Jake


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No way to know. Outlook does not do this all by itself. You would
need
to
provide the steps you used to create the problem. You should also
post
in
a
BCM group. Using BCM changes everything.
Do you backup your data?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Jake" wrote in message
...
I'm using Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a Windows
XP
Home
Edition machine. I started to look up a contact in my personal
contacts
that
I know for a fact had been listed there and realized the contact
was
no
longer in the list. I scrolled through my list of contacts and
saw
that
many
other contacts are also missing. I did a search for the missing
contact
in
the search box and it didn't find the missing contact. Then I
chose
the
option to search "all contact items" and it still didn't find my
missing
contact with the view set to phone list. For some reason I
clicked
the
business card view radial button the missing contact appears in
that
view.
Any idea what's going on here? I'm fairly new to Outlook 2007 so
I
may
have
clicked something I shouldn't have but what it is I don't know
and I
don't
know how to undo whatever I may have done. Thanks for any help!
--
Jake