Moving distribution list to different folder

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Hi,
I have a contact folder in my Outlook 2003. There are hundreds of contacts
and several distribution lists. I would like to move all these contacts and
distribution lists to the different folder. When I do this, I am loosing link
between the distribution lists and its particular contacts. When I click on
the contact in distribution list, I am receiving message: "Could not find
contact ..... . It may have been deleted or moved from its original
location". Is there some way how to easily (mean not manually) "recreate" the
link?
Ivan
 
You neglected to state what you are doing.
How are you moving these contacts to a different folder?
 
In originall folder I am choosing "Select all", after that right mouse click
a choosing "Move to folder" and choosing the new folder.
I also tried to copy whole folder to some different PS file, the result is
still the same.
Ivan

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] píše:
You neglected to state what you are doing.
How are you moving these contacts to a different folder?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Ivan said:
Hi,
I have a contact folder in my Outlook 2003. There are hundreds of contacts
and several distribution lists. I would like to move all these contacts
and
distribution lists to the different folder. When I do this, I am loosing
link
between the distribution lists and its particular contacts. When I click
on
the contact in distribution list, I am receiving message: "Could not find
contact ..... . It may have been deleted or moved from its original
location". Is there some way how to easily (mean not manually) "recreate"
the
link?
Ivan
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Now you see how fragile DL's are. Few of us use them for that reason.
They usually survive a copy to another folder in the same PST, but not
always. They never survive transfer to another PST.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Ivan said:
In originall folder I am choosing "Select all", after that right mouse
click
a choosing "Move to folder" and choosing the new folder.
I also tried to copy whole folder to some different PS file, the result is
still the same.
Ivan

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] píse:
You neglected to state what you are doing.
How are you moving these contacts to a different folder?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Ivan said:
Hi,
I have a contact folder in my Outlook 2003. There are hundreds of
contacts
and several distribution lists. I would like to move all these contacts
and
distribution lists to the different folder. When I do this, I am
loosing
link
between the distribution lists and its particular contacts. When I
click
on
the contact in distribution list, I am receiving message: "Could not
find
contact ..... . It may have been deleted or moved from its original
location". Is there some way how to easily (mean not manually)
"recreate"
the
link?
Ivan
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I am not sure, if fragile is proper word for it :-( I am loosing this link
between DL's contact and contact card of the particular user during any
movement (including one PST as well). The result is, that email adresses in
DL are still working, but when I update the user card, the change is not
taking affect in DL (link is broken forever). I cannot beleive, that
Microsoft thinks, that people are creating distribution lists forever,
without any movement needs.
Ivan

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] píše:
Now you see how fragile DL's are. Few of us use them for that reason.
They usually survive a copy to another folder in the same PST, but not
always. They never survive transfer to another PST.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Ivan said:
In originall folder I am choosing "Select all", after that right mouse
click
a choosing "Move to folder" and choosing the new folder.
I also tried to copy whole folder to some different PS file, the result is
still the same.
Ivan

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] píse:
You neglected to state what you are doing.
How are you moving these contacts to a different folder?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Hi,
I have a contact folder in my Outlook 2003. There are hundreds of
contacts
and several distribution lists. I would like to move all these contacts
and
distribution lists to the different folder. When I do this, I am
loosing
link
between the distribution lists and its particular contacts. When I
click
on
the contact in distribution list, I am receiving message: "Could not
find
contact ..... . It may have been deleted or moved from its original
location". Is there some way how to easily (mean not manually)
"recreate"
the
link?
Ivan
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
The Update Now button has never worked, at least not in the setting of
PST's.
My guess is that Microsoft expects us to abandon DL's in favor of other more
robust alternatives, such as categories.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Ivan said:
I am not sure, if fragile is proper word for it :-( I am loosing this
link
between DL's contact and contact card of the particular user during any
movement (including one PST as well). The result is, that email adresses
in
DL are still working, but when I update the user card, the change is not
taking affect in DL (link is broken forever). I cannot beleive, that
Microsoft thinks, that people are creating distribution lists forever,
without any movement needs.
Ivan

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] píse:
Now you see how fragile DL's are. Few of us use them for that reason.
They usually survive a copy to another folder in the same PST, but not
always. They never survive transfer to another PST.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Ivan said:
In originall folder I am choosing "Select all", after that right mouse
click
a choosing "Move to folder" and choosing the new folder.
I also tried to copy whole folder to some different PS file, the result
is
still the same.
Ivan

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] píse:

You neglected to state what you are doing.
How are you moving these contacts to a different folder?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Hi,
I have a contact folder in my Outlook 2003. There are hundreds of
contacts
and several distribution lists. I would like to move all these
contacts
and
distribution lists to the different folder. When I do this, I am
loosing
link
between the distribution lists and its particular contacts. When I
click
on
the contact in distribution list, I am receiving message: "Could not
find
contact ..... . It may have been deleted or moved from its original
location". Is there some way how to easily (mean not manually)
"recreate"
the
link?
Ivan
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