Not quite sure why you take such great exception to the need to
clarify the post, but your little tirade did nothing to help. There
are several reasons the post needs to be clarified:
1. Even a cursory review of the posts in this group would reveal that
in fact Outlook does not use an address book or store address book
information in a separate file. The Address Book is merely a dynamic
view of the Contacts Folder. Moreover, you cannot add or edit
Contacts data from within the address book interface. Therefore the
description is not consistent with Outlook and suggests the OP is
using some other unrelated program, such as Outlook Express. Hence my
question.
2. Outlook does not natively contain a synchronization utility with
hotmail. Other programs do and MSN 9 does. Hence the need to
understand more precisely what was done and with what versions.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
message rv'
yet another of "sandy's kids" here at her behest;
let's see:
the mvNOTpee-outlook opens by demeaning the OP with:
"are you even talking about Outlook?"
"OL does not use an address book"
(really?....why then does it say "address book" in the hover over ID?)
(oh, I get it...."real" mvNOTpees know that it's not really an
"address book" (like it says when it says "address book" it's really
a super secret file that only mvNOTpees have access to and when it
says "address book" in the help thing/hover over that's only
intended to confuse those who don't suck up to the sandy wannabees
squad so they can maintain their mvNOTpee status)...or....maybe it's
not all that complicated and in fact it DOES say "address book" (kind
of like it shows here)...or, maybe we can obfuscate it with ("but,
if, it really was an address book then it would be a *.wab file <bg>
(it's coming...trust me)
(really sad that you guys just keep marching to the pied
piperette....and making fools of yourselves....sadder still that
you've allowed yourselves to destroy what used to be a well respected
(and earned) group.
hopefully, the newbies (at least some of them) will take the time to
question the ethics of at least some (sadly, now most) of those that
put their "titles" above their efforts.
In days past, the ratio was 90 out of 100 on this NG of folks willing
to help just because they enjoyed doing so.....today it's the
reverse....10 out of 100 (if I really stretch it...probably more like
3)
hey....that's where msn has gone....if you're happy sending them your
$/month so be it.
Sadly....what was once a NG with scores of individuals willing to
help just because they enjoyed it, is now down to one or two and
falling fast..... ....tell you something?
you really ought to be ashamed.
"...clarify what you did and your actual versions"
you really are a pompous sob
the OP is "even talking" about OL;
according to the XP hover over, it is an "address book"; and,
one would expect an mv(NOT)pee (even one that takes it upon
him/herself to post with the sig in a NG that has absolutely NOTHING
TO DO WITH his/her area of expertise (which apparently, he/she has
some severe handicaps to begin with) to be able to deal with an OP's
question in a more reasonable fashion than "...are you even talking
about OL?"
did you even bother to read the question or are you just (despite your
medal) unfamiliar with the fact that OL does, in fact, label the
contact list as "address book" (and has, for years, used/misused, the
terms)
--
val
micro$oft {dot.NOT.dot.NET.dot.NEVER} - mvp (since 1950)
hyperlinks used because they can be;
html posting encouraged;
bottom posters generally ignored as this is an "OE zone"
Are you even talking about Outlook?
Outlook does not use an address book.
Clarify what you did and your actual versions.
Being the genius that I am, I did the following. I was trying to
export my address book on Hotmail to a local .wab or .csv
1. I set up address book synchronization between outlook and
hotmail.
2. I synched and all the contacts from hotmail were sucessfully
downloaded to my outlook addressbook.
3. I noticed that a few email addresses that had been in the Outlook
address book before the synch were still there, and the addressbook
now contained a mixture of Hotmail contacts and old outlook contacts.
So, I deleted everything from the the Outlook addressbook, and hit
synch again expecting that Hotmail would re-download all its contacts
to my outlook address book.
4. Instead, hotmail deleted all ITS contacts, such that all the
contacts are neither on the Hotmail server nor in Outlook.
I believe this means I'm out of luck and that many many contacts are
gone for good. Is there anything I can do?
I've checked for the ~ file and the .wa~ file, but since the hotmail
contacts were in Outlook only for a second, I find not surprisingly
that the backups don't contain anything from hotmail.
Is there any way I can restore the contacts? Does hotmail somehow
make backups?
