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Tough question about contacts
The tough question is mentioned below quite a few times.
Maybe, as MVP Russ put it, someone else may be able to sort through this post. If you need even more detail I can try and provide it. This is very frustrating to me to ask for help only to get an answer that was already tried. Then to get the once over for not providing enough details. Then to get the brush off. If there are other MVPs for Outlook that might have the solution to the problem, I'm glad you have that knowledge, if you would like to share it that's great. If you just don't want to answer, that's fine too. I don't use this newsgroup much, but I believe I tried to supply pretty good detail for my outlook problem, with an end result of nothing. Thanks Russ for the end result. I would hope you could Now you can see why I asked for further details. No one could possibly have solved this one without the information you left out. As it is, I'll get back to you in a few days if I get some free time. I'm pretty busy right now. Someone else may be able to sort through this in the meantime. Right now, my family is having my birthday dinner. Advice: Always post relevant detail. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "T Smart" wrote in message ... First thing. I did say in my first post Any help further than what I have tried would be great. Which was exactly the information you returned to me. Not further help than what I had tried. As for the second reply Then explain your configuration in sufficient detail I must have missed where you ask for more details in your first reply. Information store and number of Contact Folders We are using Microsoft exchange server. I am using Microsoft Outlook 2003. I have one contact folder in my side panel in Outlook, but two in the area that I have described once in the first post and again in the details below. Why do you have both Mailbox Contacts and Personal Contacts in the same profile? They are not both in the profile, but rather they are both in the area described below when creating a new email, picking the To button, and then choosing the Show Names drop-down. From importing my local .pst in the migration to a server vs peer to peer setup is my guess. What address book services are in your profile? Outlook Address Book We started out using .pst files and personal contacts back when we were running peer to peer. Everyone had their own stores on their own computers. Since then we have upgraded to a full blown server and are now using the exchange mailbox as the store. My thought is that the importing of the .pst file to get the mailbox file in exchange to sync up somehow imported the personal contacts, along the way to migrating stuff over to outlook 2003 as well. Somewhere in the processes I have an extra contacts file, not an extra folder, in the drop-down area when you start a new email and hit the To button and then hit the show names drop-down. My outlook folders show one contacts folder which works fine. If I choose the second contacts file in the process of a new email described above, I do get all the contacts that are in my contact folder in my outlook side panel. I am trying to find out how to get rid of the contact that is shown in the drop-down described above. I don't know how much more detail you need. If I could figure this out I wouldn't bother asking for help for such a silly question in the microsoft.public.outlook.contacts newsgroup. -----Original Message----- Then explain your configuration in sufficient detail, including your Information store and number of Contact Folders. What address book services are in your profile? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Tsmart" wrote in message ... Thank you for the information on what I have already tried. It still didn't work the second time. The empty contact object is still there. -----Original Message----- Remove the invalid reference to a Contacts Folder he Go to Tools E-mail accounts View or change existing directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "T Smart" wrote in message ... Using outlook 2003 and when I start a new email, hit the To button, then select the show names from drop- down, there are two instances of Contacts. The first one gives me an error saying it might have been moved or deleted, then shows nothing inside. The second on works fine and looks just like the Contact folder on my Outlook folder list. When I go in to try and delete the contact from tools,options,change address books, I am given the option to remove either personal contacts, or Mailbox contacts. Since the Mailbox Contacts show up right I try and delete the personal contacts. It will let me do this but then shows that the Mailbox contacts have been deleted. If I go out and restart they are both there again. What the heck can I do to get the EMPTY contact removed from the To field,Show names from drop-down box????? Any help further than what I have tried would be great. Thanks Tony |
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Tough question about contacts
No need to repost. Look at the original thread.
There are only so many hours in a day. I said I'd get back to you when I had time. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "T Smart" wrote in message ... The tough question is mentioned below quite a few times. Maybe, as MVP Russ put it, someone else may be able to sort through this post. If you need even more detail I can try and provide it. This is very frustrating to me to ask for help only to get an answer that was already tried. Then to get the once over for not providing enough details. Then to get the brush off. If there are other MVPs for Outlook that might have the solution to the problem, I'm glad you have that knowledge, if you would like to share it that's great. If you just don't want to answer, that's fine too. I don't use this newsgroup much, but I believe I tried to supply pretty good detail for my outlook problem, with an end result of nothing. Thanks Russ for the end result. I would hope you could Now you can see why I asked for further details. No one could possibly have solved this one without the information you left out. As it is, I'll get back to you in a few days if I get some free time. I'm pretty busy right now. Someone else may be able to sort through this in the meantime. Right now, my family is having my birthday dinner. Advice: Always post relevant detail. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "T Smart" wrote in message ... First thing. I did say in my first post Any help further than what I have tried would be great. Which was exactly the information you returned to me. Not further help than what I had tried. As for the second reply Then explain your configuration in sufficient detail I must have missed where you ask for more details in your first reply. Information store and number of Contact Folders We are using Microsoft exchange server. I am using Microsoft Outlook 2003. I have one contact folder in my side panel in Outlook, but two in the area that I have described once in the first post and again in the details below. Why do you have both Mailbox Contacts and Personal Contacts in the same profile? They are not both in the profile, but rather they are both in the area described below when creating a new email, picking the To button, and then choosing the Show Names drop-down. From importing my local .pst in the migration to a server vs peer to peer setup is my guess. What address book services are in your profile? Outlook Address Book We started out using .pst files and personal contacts back when we were running peer to peer. Everyone had their own stores on their own computers. Since then we have upgraded to a full blown server and are now using the exchange mailbox as the store. My thought is that the importing of the .pst file to get the mailbox file in exchange to sync up somehow imported the personal contacts, along the way to migrating stuff over to outlook 2003 as well. Somewhere in the processes I have an extra contacts file, not an extra folder, in the drop-down area when you start a new email and hit the To button and then hit the show names drop-down. My outlook folders show one contacts folder which works fine. If I choose the second contacts file in the process of a new email described above, I do get all the contacts that are in my contact folder in my outlook side panel. I am trying to find out how to get rid of the contact that is shown in the drop-down described above. I don't know how much more detail you need. If I could figure this out I wouldn't bother asking for help for such a silly question in the microsoft.public.outlook.contacts newsgroup. -----Original Message----- Then explain your configuration in sufficient detail, including your Information store and number of Contact Folders. What address book services are in your profile? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Tsmart" wrote in message ... Thank you for the information on what I have already tried. It still didn't work the second time. The empty contact object is still there. -----Original Message----- Remove the invalid reference to a Contacts Folder he Go to Tools E-mail accounts View or change existing directories or address books Outlook Address Book Change. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "T Smart" wrote in message ... Using outlook 2003 and when I start a new email, hit the To button, then select the show names from drop- down, there are two instances of Contacts. The first one gives me an error saying it might have been moved or deleted, then shows nothing inside. The second on works fine and looks just like the Contact folder on my Outlook folder list. When I go in to try and delete the contact from tools,options,change address books, I am given the option to remove either personal contacts, or Mailbox contacts. Since the Mailbox Contacts show up right I try and delete the personal contacts. It will let me do this but then shows that the Mailbox contacts have been deleted. If I go out and restart they are both there again. What the heck can I do to get the EMPTY contact removed from the To field,Show names from drop-down box????? Any help further than what I have tried would be great. Thanks Tony |
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