Contacts stuck in Deleted Items folder

[Denise]

Outlook 2000 (Internet Only config) on XP Home OS

I deleted 500+ Contact records from my Contacts folder. I have 800+
Contact records remaining, 2 of which I suspect are corrupt for the
following reasons:
- the gray bar that normally contains the Contact Name in bold appears
as a plain gray bar with no text inside
- these contact records can be opened but not edited
- these contact records cannot be deleted (Outlook freezes)

The 500+ Contact records that I just deleted are showing up in the
Delected Items folder. I have not been successful at deleting these:
- by emptying the Deleted Items folder (Outlook freezes)
- by attempting to delete only one at a time (Outlook freezes)

I have run Detect and Repair from the Outlook Help menu.
I have run the Inbox Repair Tool.
I have renamed outcmd.dat to outcmd.old.

What else can I do to get rid of these unwanted (500+) and bad (2)
Contact records?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Have you also run ScanPST.EXE on your PST file?

 

[Denise]

Yes, that's what I meant by the Inbox Repair Tool. Sorry for the
confusion. It did find errors, which I had it fix. This PST was
recently cropped with the 2GB crop tool. I suspect that may be why
there is some lingering corruption.

Do you know how I can get those 500+ contacts out of my Delected Items
folder and remove those 2 bad Contact records?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Sorry, missed the reference to the repair tool. You might have to run it
multiple times to get rid of all the issues.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Yes, that's what I meant by the Inbox Repair Tool. Sorry for the
confusion. It did find errors, which I had it fix. This PST was
recently cropped with the 2GB crop tool. I suspect that may be why
there is some lingering corruption.

Do you know how I can get those 500+ contacts out of my Delected Items
folder and remove those 2 bad Contact records?

Can you select enteries and delete them with Shift-Delete?

 

[Denise]

Brian,

That is exactly (well, almost exactly!) what I discovered yesterday on
my own. You must have been sending me the vibes telepathically. I
tried Ctl-D with a single entry and it worked! So I proceeded to
delete each individual record in this manner. Even the two bad Contact
Records deleted this way.

Thanks to both Brian and Vince for replying to my post!