Outlook Connector and restoring my deleted contacts

[Robin Lauren]

I've been using the Outlook Connector for some time, to integrate Live
mail/contacts/messenger with Outlook, without any problems. But a few days
back, i saw that (nearly?) all my contacts in the "Hotmail" account in my
Outlook had duplicated.

Pedantic as i sometimes can be, i proceeded to manually delete all the
duplicate contacts, despite warnings from the Connector that removing
contacts will remove them from Messenger too. No problem. I was just
deleting duplicates.

Well that's what i thought, because today when i looked at my Messenger,
*all* of the contacts whose duplicates i (thought i) had deleted were *gone*.

Is there a way to restore my now-deleted contacts?

Responses to
http://www.navelfluff.org/2008/01/25/inadvertent-messenger-cleaning/ also
appreciated.

br,
~llaurén

 

[Roady [MVP]]

But in Outlook the contacts still show in the Contacts folder of your
Hotmail account?
In that case, copy your contacts to a Contacts folder in your Personal
Folders (pst-file) folder set or create one. This will be your backup so
make sure they are indeed all properly copied.
Now remove the Hotmail account, restart Outlook and then add it again. Your
Hotmail account should now resync properly again with Outlook. Obviously
your Contacts folder will be empty now but you can copy them back from the
backup your created. As the Outlook Connector is a 2-way sync, your contacts
should be back in your Hotmail account as well.