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I posted below to the general forum, but did not get an answer. I repeat
because I think this is a more appropriate place to get an answer. I am using OL 2007, single computer pst file. I have many user defined fields that have carried over from OL2003 and perhaps before. These fields are no longer of any use, yet I cannot seem to get them deleted. I could not say in what way they were created, as some date back 5 years. In the view menu, I have used the Field Chooser and deleted those fields in User defined fields in folder. I have gone into the design a form, deleted the fields in the all fields page for both user defined fields in folder, and in this item. I have then published the form. I don't think this updates the regular IPM.Contact form though and that is where the fields show up in the all fieds tab. I have several folders under contacts and have done the above to each folder. If I simply open a new contact form (IPM.Contact) and go to all fields, these old user definited fields are back! I have no idea how to get rid of them permanently. I suspect it is because the actual contact record contains information in these fields. Is there a way to delete these and their information? When I try to add a field that I now use to the view, I keep getting '''the folder is full''''' which I suspect is because there are so many useless fields stored in my outlook. My contact form does contain a form region with some new user defined fields, but none of these old ones. So please help......how can I get rid of them? Also, if I have a field in a form region, but not on any custom form, can I add that field to a view? |
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=?Utf-8?B?R29sZkdhbA==?= wrote: If I simply open a new contact form (IPM.Contact) and go to all fields, these old user definited fields are back! I have no idea how to get rid of them permanently. UDF's and UDF's intheFolder are like rats. There is no real way to remove them aside from removing the food that feeds them. When you remove the UDF from the folder design, that just converts the fields to fields in the data item. You have to go to each and every item and remove the fields from the item. The only real strategy is to create a new pst, rebuild all the contacts by typing them in directly, no copying in from the old .pst file, and setting the new .pst file to be the delivery point for your email operations. You can try coping in the contacts without the folder design, but you would still have the UDF's in the items. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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Thanks for your answer. Certainly not the one I was hoping to hear!! But I
had that thought already. If have tons of other stored info in this pst. That would mean I would have a clean fresh file with nothing in it?? and lose all my calendar and notes? "Hollis Paul" wrote: In article , =?Utf-8?B?R29sZkdhbA==?= wrote: If I simply open a new contact form (IPM.Contact) and go to all fields, these old user definited fields are back! I have no idea how to get rid of them permanently. UDF's and UDF's intheFolder are like rats. There is no real way to remove them aside from removing the food that feeds them. When you remove the UDF from the folder design, that just converts the fields to fields in the data item. You have to go to each and every item and remove the fields from the item. The only real strategy is to create a new pst, rebuild all the contacts by typing them in directly, no copying in from the old .pst file, and setting the new .pst file to be the delivery point for your email operations. You can try coping in the contacts without the folder design, but you would still have the UDF's in the items. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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=?Utf-8?B?R29sZkdhbA==?= wrote: If have tons of other stored info in this pst. That would mean I would have a clean fresh file with nothing in it?? and lose all my calendar and notes? Well, you can have more than one .pst "opened" in Outlook at the same time. So, you could do your new designs in the new pst, and receive and send messages from there, and so begin to build new, updated information in the new pst. You can still access the old contacts folder to pick up email addresses from the existing folder. The trick there is to go in and change the display name to be able to distinguish which folder is meant when you have to choose one folder from another. It is a real bummer to look on the list and see two Contacts listed, and then have to search through one list and not find what you want, cancel, and select the other Contacts folder, and search through that list. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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I did that. Created a new pst and designated it as the default. And would
you believe.....when I open a new contact using the IPM.Contact, and go to all fields tab......there they are again!! All the useless fields! Maybe an Outlook exorcist could remove them!!! At one point I had a form region that had these fields on it. I have since removed that form region, and also removed its reference from the registry. I searched the registry to be sure it wasn't hiding someplace else and find didn't find it, so I'm guessing it is gone from there. It does not open with the contact form, so I know it is gone. But its fields are still there!!! "Hollis Paul" wrote: In article , =?Utf-8?B?R29sZkdhbA==?= wrote: If have tons of other stored info in this pst. That would mean I would have a clean fresh file with nothing in it?? and lose all my calendar and notes? Well, you can have more than one .pst "opened" in Outlook at the same time. So, you could do your new designs in the new pst, and receive and send messages from there, and so begin to build new, updated information in the new pst. You can still access the old contacts folder to pick up email addresses from the existing folder. The trick there is to go in and change the display name to be able to distinguish which folder is meant when you have to choose one folder from another. It is a real bummer to look on the list and see two Contacts listed, and then have to search through one list and not find what you want, cancel, and select the other Contacts folder, and search through that list. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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Once you add custom fields to an individual item, they will remain part of that item until you remove the fields from that item, either with code (UserProperty.Delete) or manually through the All Fields page.
Unless you have some real storage issues (which doesn't seem likely given that you have a .pst file), the data in the extra fields shouldn't do any harm and might just as easily be ignored. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "GolfGal" wrote in message ... I did that. Created a new pst and designated it as the default. And would you believe.....when I open a new contact using the IPM.Contact, and go to all fields tab......there they are again!! All the useless fields! Maybe an Outlook exorcist could remove them!!! At one point I had a form region that had these fields on it. I have since removed that form region, and also removed its reference from the registry. I searched the registry to be sure it wasn't hiding someplace else and find didn't find it, so I'm guessing it is gone from there. It does not open with the contact form, so I know it is gone. But its fields are still there!!! |
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In article ,
=?Utf-8?B?R29sZkdhbA==?= wrote: I did that. Created a new pst and designated it as the default. And would you believe.....when I open a new contact using the IPM.Contact, and go to all fields tab......there they are again!! All the useless fields! Maybe an Outlook exorcist could remove them!!! That sounds like you were picking up the old contact template from cache. Search on www.slipstick.com and/or www.outlookcode.com for how to clear cache. Then close the old pst from your Outlook profile. Close Outlook. Clear cache. Then open Outlook, which should only have the new pst file open, and see if a new contact item still has the unwanted fields. All this assumes that you do not have an Exchange server or an Exchange Inbox in your profile. -- Hollis Paul Mukilteo, WA USA |
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