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Old April 26th 07, 12:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts,microsoft.public.outlook.general
Gordon
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I have a strange thing here. I have two legitimate installations of Outlook
2007, one on a desktop and one on a laptop. The laptop has all my contacts
on it.
I created a new data file, added a folder "Contacts" with Contact Items set
as the content type, and copied all my contacts into it. I then closed
Outlook, and copied the new pst file to a shared network drive. On the
desktop, I copied the pst file to the local HDD, opened Outlook, and did
File-Open Outlook Data File. There is NO contacts folder to be seen in the
opened pst file! Yet if I open the file on the other machine, there is the
folder. What am I doing wrong?


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Old April 26th 07, 12:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts,microsoft.public.outlook.general
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Problem transfering contacts Outlook 2007

Use Folder List view to examine this PST file. If you did what you said, you
will see your Contacts Folder.
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"Gordon" wrote in message
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I have a strange thing here. I have two legitimate installations of Outlook
2007, one on a desktop and one on a laptop. The laptop has all my contacts
on it.
I created a new data file, added a folder "Contacts" with Contact Items
set as the content type, and copied all my contacts into it. I then closed
Outlook, and copied the new pst file to a shared network drive. On the
desktop, I copied the pst file to the local HDD, opened Outlook, and did
File-Open Outlook Data File. There is NO contacts folder to be seen in the
opened pst file! Yet if I open the file on the other machine, there is the
folder. What am I doing wrong?


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Old April 26th 07, 01:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts,microsoft.public.outlook.general
Gordon
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Default Problem transfering contacts Outlook 2007

"Gordon" wrote in message
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I have a strange thing here. I have two legitimate installations of Outlook
2007, one on a desktop and one on a laptop. The laptop has all my contacts
on it.
I created a new data file, added a folder "Contacts" with Contact Items
set as the content type, and copied all my contacts into it. I then closed
Outlook, and copied the new pst file to a shared network drive. On the
desktop, I copied the pst file to the local HDD, opened Outlook, and did
File-Open Outlook Data File. There is NO contacts folder to be seen in the
opened pst file! Yet if I open the file on the other machine, there is the
folder. What am I doing wrong?



Solved this one - it doesn't show in the folder view, but it shows in the
Contacts view.
However, I have another problem - I've got an item under Contacts called
"contact" from one of the failed attempts at transferring, and I can't
delete it. It says the pst file is unavailable. I've probably deleted it.
How do I get rid of this item?


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Old April 26th 07, 01:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts,microsoft.public.outlook.general
Gordon
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Default Problem transfering contacts Outlook 2007

"Gordon" wrote in message
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However, I have another problem - I've got an item under Contacts called
"contact" from one of the failed attempts at transferring, and I can't
delete it. It says the pst file is unavailable. I've probably deleted it.
How do I get rid of this item?


Solved - it disappeared when I closed and re-started outlook....





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Old April 26th 07, 01:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts,microsoft.public.outlook.general
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Problem transfering contacts Outlook 2007

Correction: Contacts don't show in _Mail_ view. Contacts never have.
They most certainly do show in Folder List view and in Contacts view.

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Russ Valentine
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"Gordon" wrote in message
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"Gordon" wrote in message
...
I have a strange thing here. I have two legitimate installations of
Outlook 2007, one on a desktop and one on a laptop. The laptop has all my
contacts on it.
I created a new data file, added a folder "Contacts" with Contact Items
set as the content type, and copied all my contacts into it. I then
closed Outlook, and copied the new pst file to a shared network drive. On
the desktop, I copied the pst file to the local HDD, opened Outlook, and
did File-Open Outlook Data File. There is NO contacts folder to be seen
in the opened pst file! Yet if I open the file on the other machine,
there is the folder. What am I doing wrong?



Solved this one - it doesn't show in the folder view, but it shows in the
Contacts view.
However, I have another problem - I've got an item under Contacts called
"contact" from one of the failed attempts at transferring, and I can't
delete it. It says the pst file is unavailable. I've probably deleted it.
How do I get rid of this item?


 




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