Re-creating my contacts folder

[Timothy Mark]

For some reason my contacts folder started behaving like a pictures folder
and could no longer import .csv files etc. So, in haste I deleted it and
tried to create a new one, but it just behaves like an ordinary folder and
not like the 'special' contacts folder...

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Open Contacts, right-click somewhere in that empty white space,
select Customize This Folder, click the little triangle, then Contacts,
then Apply, OK, then close the Contacts window and open it again.

 

[Dave]

There was no need to delete the Contacts folder. It occasionally switched
to a different template.
To switch to the correct template..
Organize - Properties - Customize
in the pull-down box, select Contacts
Ok

but, to try to get your correct folder back, try this..
close the Contacts folder
click on the Start button - in the Start Search box, type shell:contacts

 

[Timothy Mark]

Thanks. I assume that you mean the little triangle under folder template. I
tried this previously, but the only options it gives me are: "All Items,
Documents, Pictures and Videos, Music Details and Music Icons"

?

 

[Timothy Mark]

Thanks - before deleting the folder I had tried to customize it but the
option wasn't there. Typing shell:contacts seems to have done the trick -
much appreciated.