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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / May 2006Moving distribution list to different folder
Hi, I have a contact folder in my Outlook 2003. There are hundreds of contacts and several distribution lists. I would like to move all these contacts and distribution lists to the different folder. When I do this, I am loosing link between the distribution lists and its particular contacts. When I click on the contact in distribution list, I am receiving message: "Could not find contact ..... . It may have been deleted or moved from its original location". Is there some way how to easily (mean not manually) "recreate" the link? Ivan You neglected to state what you are doing. How are you moving these contacts to a different folder?  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Hi, > I have a contact folder in my Outlook 2003. There are hundreds of contacts [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > link? > Ivan In originall folder I am choosing "Select all", after that right mouse click a choosing "Move to folder" and choosing the new folder. I also tried to copy whole folder to some different PS file, the result is still the same. Ivan Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] píše: > You neglected to state what you are doing. > How are you moving these contacts to a different folder? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > link? > > Ivan Now you see how fragile DL's are. Few of us use them for that reason. They usually survive a copy to another folder in the same PST, but not always. They never survive transfer to another PST. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > In originall folder I am choosing "Select all", after that right mouse > click [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> > link? >> > Ivan I am not sure, if fragile is proper word for it :-( I am loosing this link between DL's contact and contact card of the particular user during any movement (including one PST as well). The result is, that email adresses in DL are still working, but when I update the user card, the change is not taking affect in DL (link is broken forever). I cannot beleive, that Microsoft thinks, that people are creating distribution lists forever, without any movement needs. Ivan Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] píše: > Now you see how fragile DL's are. Few of us use them for that reason. > They usually survive a copy to another folder in the same PST, but not [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > >> > link? > >> > Ivan The Update Now button has never worked, at least not in the setting of PST's. My guess is that Microsoft expects us to abandon DL's in favor of other more robust alternatives, such as categories. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I am not sure, if fragile is proper word for it :-( I am loosing this >link [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >> >> > link? >> >> > Ivan |
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