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Joe McGuire - 21 Oct 2005 21:20 GMT

I accidentally wiped out an entire distribution list when I meant to merely
remove one Contact on the list. Is there any way to get it back? If not,
is there any way to copy another nearly identical list and fix it up to
match the one that is gone--without simply redoing the durned thing from
scratch? Adding and subtracting a few names will be a lot easier.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 21 Oct 2005 22:55 GMT

Items you delete are in your Deleted Items Folder.
Do you back up your data?
Explain what you mean by a "nearly identical list." What would that be?

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>I accidentally wiped out an entire distribution list when I meant to merely
>remove one Contact on the list. Is there any way to get it back? If not,
>is there any way to copy another nearly identical list and fix it up to
>match the one that is gone--without simply redoing the durned thing from
>scratch? Adding and subtracting a few names will be a lot easier.

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Joe McGuire - 22 Oct 2005 04:02 GMT

Thanks! There it is! I did not see it until I clicked on Go to Folder
List.

Nearly identical list? It is probably dumb but I forward jokes (only the
best of what I get from friends) to a group of colleagues and friends. Most
come from 3 in that group. To avoid forwarding an item back to the guy who
sent it to me I have 3 lists of the guys--all identical except that each
list is missing one of those 3 guys. Pretty cumbersome.

After posting this question I stumbled on a "help" note to the effect that I
can address an e-mail to a list and then in the "To" field I can "open" the
list by clicking on the plus sign and then delete any list member. Never
knew this.

> Items you delete are in your Deleted Items Folder.
> Do you back up your data?
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>>up to match the one that is gone--without simply redoing the durned thing
>>from scratch? Adding and subtracting a few names will be a lot easier.

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Brian Tillman - 24 Oct 2005 18:29 GMT

> Nearly identical list? It is probably dumb but I forward jokes (only
> the best of what I get from friends) to a group of colleagues and
> friends. Most come from 3 in that group. To avoid forwarding an
> item back to the guy who sent it to me I have 3 lists of the
> guys--all identical except that each list is missing one of those 3
> guys. Pretty cumbersome.

If you want to make a second list based on an existing one, just copy the
first, rename it to give it a new name, and then change its contents.

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Joe McGuire - 26 Oct 2005 04:47 GMT

Now I see. I was trying to copy the list but until I stumbled on to "Copy
to Folder" I was not getting anywhere.

>> Nearly identical list? It is probably dumb but I forward jokes (only
>> the best of what I get from friends) to a group of colleagues and
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> If you want to make a second list based on an existing one, just copy the
> first, rename it to give it a new name, and then change its contents.

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Brian Tillman - 26 Oct 2005 14:52 GMT

> Now I see. I was trying to copy the list but until I stumbled on to
> "Copy to Folder" I was not getting anywhere.

I copy DLs with right-click-drag-and-drop. The context menu that pops up
gives a copy option.

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bluejojosmum - 22 Oct 2005 01:21 GMT

If you can't find the dl in your deleted items folder, there is still a way
to retrieve the list; open up an old email sent to
the dl and cut and paste the email addresses into a text file on the
clipboard. Copy the contents of the text file, return to Outlook, open a new
distribution list, click on “select members” and in the pop-up box labeled
“select members” go to the “members” box, get the cursor in the empty box to
the right of that, and hit ctrl V. That pastes in all the new contacts form
the text file. Then hit “ok”, which will put all the names into the
distribution list, and hit Save and close (after making sure you give the
distribution list a name you will remember!)

Believe it or not, this is a lot faster than trying to re-create a dl from
scratch

> I accidentally wiped out an entire distribution list when I meant to merely
> remove one Contact on the list. Is there any way to get it back? If not,
> is there any way to copy another nearly identical list and fix it up to
> match the one that is gone--without simply redoing the durned thing from
> scratch? Adding and subtracting a few names will be a lot easier.

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Joe McGuire - 22 Oct 2005 04:14 GMT

Thanks! Great suggestion.

> If you can't find the dl in your deleted items folder, there is still a
> way
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>> match the one that is gone--without simply redoing the durned thing from
>> scratch? Adding and subtracting a few names will be a lot easier.

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