I have several distribution lists in my contact list. My contact list had
been corrupted a while back and I am now using a restored contact lists from
a backup (all of this is in public folders on an Exchange server). The old,
obsolete contact list has been moved to another folder in my Exchange server
and the newer, currently maintained contact list is in the public folder
where the contact list has always traditionally been. However, now when I
open the contacts in my current distribution lists, it opens the records from
the old contact list. It is as if my distribution lists are pointing to the
wrong contact lists to do the update. This is no good. Short of
reconstructing every one of my distribution lists (a big project to be sure)
what can I do to make the distribution lists look in my current contact list
instead of my old contact list for updating email addresses?

Nothing. Once you change your data store in any way, you cannot update the
DL's it contains. They remain connected to the original data store. You must
reconstruct them. This is one of the many reasons few savvy Outlook users
ever resort to using DL's. They are always a poor choice for organizing
Contacts. Outlook is full of good ideas that have been poorly implemented.
This is one.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"PsyberDave" wrote in message
...
I have several distribution lists in my contact list. My contact list had
been corrupted a while back and I am now using a restored contact lists
from
a backup (all of this is in public folders on an Exchange server). The
old,
obsolete contact list has been moved to another folder in my Exchange
server
and the newer, currently maintained contact list is in the public folder
where the contact list has always traditionally been. However, now when I
open the contacts in my current distribution lists, it opens the records
from
the old contact list. It is as if my distribution lists are pointing to
the
wrong contact lists to do the update. This is no good. Short of
reconstructing every one of my distribution lists (a big project to be
sure)
what can I do to make the distribution lists look in my current contact
list
instead of my old contact list for updating email addresses?

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:55:47 -0500, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

Nothing. Once you change your data store in any way, you cannot update the
DL's it contains. They remain connected to the original data store. You must
reconstruct them. This is one of the many reasons few savvy Outlook users
ever resort to using DL's. They are always a poor choice for organizing
Contacts. Outlook is full of good ideas that have been poorly implemented.
This is one.

What do these savvy Outlook users use instead when they need to
regularly send messages to a list of people?

Categories.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Lurfys Maw" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:55:47 -0500, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

Nothing. Once you change your data store in any way, you cannot update the
DL's it contains. They remain connected to the original data store. You
must
reconstruct them. This is one of the many reasons few savvy Outlook users
ever resort to using DL's. They are always a poor choice for organizing
Contacts. Outlook is full of good ideas that have been poorly implemented.
This is one.

What do these savvy Outlook users use instead when they need to
regularly send messages to a list of people?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Nothing. Once you change your data store in any way, you cannot update the
DL's it contains. They remain connected to the original data store. You must
reconstruct them. This is one of the many reasons few savvy Outlook users
ever resort to using DL's. They are always a poor choice for organizing
Contacts. Outlook is full of good ideas that have been poorly implemented.
This is one.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"PsyberDave" wrote in message
...
I have several distribution lists in my contact list. My contact list had
been corrupted a while back and I am now using a restored contact lists
from
a backup (all of this is in public folders on an Exchange server). The
old,
obsolete contact list has been moved to another folder in my Exchange
server
and the newer, currently maintained contact list is in the public folder
where the contact list has always traditionally been. However, now when I
open the contacts in my current distribution lists, it opens the records
from
the old contact list. It is as if my distribution lists are pointing to
the
wrong contact lists to do the update. This is no good. Short of
reconstructing every one of my distribution lists (a big project to be
sure)
what can I do to make the distribution lists look in my current contact
list
instead of my old contact list for updating email addresses?