Contacts folder a complete mess

[Mr. Toy]

I'm having all sorts of problems with my Contacts folder. I don't use Windows
Mail, but I use the Contacts folder as a general address book.

While attempting to send Christmas cards, I'm discovering all sorts of
glitches. First, I tried to export the Contacts to my word processor
(OpenOffice 2) but there was no Export Button! I was told that if I right
clicked on an empty area of the folder I would find a customize dialog box
from which I could change the folder type. However the promised "Contacts"
option was not there.

Later I found that the "Export" button was only absent if I opened the
Contacts folder from my desktop icon. The Export button shows up if I open it
from the My Computer folder. Very odd.

I still couldn't get OpenOffice to import the exported Contacts list, so I
decided to use Microsoft Works which I thought could read the Contacts list
with no problem. But here's where it gets really strange. The addresses
recognized by Works are older addresses and many of them are obsolete. It
shows I'm using my regular Contacts folder, but the items in the folder
differ from the items in the Contacts folder if I open it directly instead
of in Works.

When I updated some addresses recently, it should have overwritten the old
ones, no? So why is the address book in Works reading old Contact
information?

 

[Dave]

It sounds like you have 2 different Contacts folders.
Open each one, right-click on the breadcrumb bar at the top, and select
"Copy Address as text"
and paste each location in a reply.

Does Works actively read the contacts folder, or did you have to import the
contacts into it?

 

[Mr. Toy]

It sounds like you have 2 different Contacts folders.

And indeed that is what happened. I guess that sometime many months ago I
copied the folder to my desktop thinking I was creating a shortcut. Thanks.
My bad.