I don't understand the Contacts Folders in Outlook 2003.
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From: Russ Valentine on 17 Apr 2010 04:39 You'll need to be more clear about where you see these folders that you think you shouldn't. Use Folder List view to examine your entire folder hierarchy and tell us what you see. -- Russ Valentine "Margaret Bartley" <may04_NOTTHIS(a)mindspring.com> wrote in message news:OeBlnNg3KHA.1624(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Thank you, but this isnt' quite the answer to my very complicated > question. > > If you back to the original post, you will see that there are four (4) > different Contacts folders lists. > > The list you are talking about is the first list, the one with 13 folders. > > What I'm trying to get rid of is old folders in the last list, the list > that has 97(!) folders in it. > I see this list when I import data for a Contacts folder under File | > Import and Export. > > > "Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]" <tillman1952(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:OqbQUvZ3KHA.4332(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> "Margaret Bartley" <may04_NOTTHIS(a)mindspring.com> wrote in message >> news:e9cZhEZ3KHA.4540(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> >>> Do you know why do some folders get listed as an address book without me >>> explicitly enabling them? Is there some action that triggers it, as >>> well? It appears to be random - I had not marked any of the folders >>> explicitly as Address books, but some are listed and some are not. >> >> My experience is that any contact folders that exist in a PST when the >> mail profile gets created, the PST added to the profile, and the Outlook >> Address Book configured before opening Outlook should have the address >> book attribute enabled automatically. Any new contacts folder you add >> should also have the attribute enabled. Any contacts folder created >> while the Outlook Address Book service is not properly configured won't >> until the OAB service is removed and readded. >> >>> Also, any idea how to get rid of the dozens of old, obsolete folders >>> that are just cluttering up my system and taking up space? >> >> Folders in Outlook do not correspond to files. If you see folders in the >> Outlook Address Book interface that don't exist, click Tools>E-mail >> Accounts>View or change existing directories or address books>Next, >> select the Outlook Address Book service, click Change, and remove the >> bogus folder names. Stop and restart Outlook when finished. >> -- >> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] > > |