Removing Contacts from Trash

[Guest]

Hello,

I accidentally moved all of my contacts to the Deleted Items folder in
Outlook, so I selected one and moved it back to my Contacts folder. This
worked for that one person.

Then, I "selected all" in the Deleted Items folder and tried to move them
into the Contacts folder, thinking Outlook would do so one by one. When I
saw what it had done - put all of the Vcards into one Contact file - I hit
cancel.

Everything disappeared. The Contacts are no longer in the Deleted Items,
nor are they anywhere else. I now have no idea what to do to recover the
contacts.

Anyone seen this before?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't think you'll be able to recover those contacts unless you have a backup .pst file.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Yeah, I figured as much. Is this something I could report to Microsfot as a
bug? The usual behavior for "cancel" is to put things back where they were.
I really think in this case (mass deletion of contacts) that "Cancel" should
behave like normal. Anyone on this list know how to submit that request to
Microsoft?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you have a retail copy of Office, you can submit a support incident through http://support.microsoft.com

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers