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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / February 2007Outlook 2003 extremely slow after importing contacts
When I import contacts from a .pst-file, outlook becomes very slow. When I create a new mail profile (which is empty/no contacts imported yet), outlook behaves normal again. Why are you importing from a PST file? PST is Outlook's native format. It does not require conversion. Stop importing. Just open the PST file and copy what you need from it.  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > When I import contacts from a .pst-file, outlook becomes very slow. > When I create a new mail profile (which is empty/no contacts imported > yet), > outlook behaves normal again. Thanks for your support ! The consequence of opening the pst-file, is that it now shows me two contact folders. One regular contacts-folder, and one 'contacts in peronal folders' folder. Up to here, everything still works ok. When I select all contacts from the 'contacts in personal folders' and move them to the 'contacts' folder, the system is extremely slow again. So : everytime I populate the Contacts folder, the system becomes very slow. Fyi : The first thing I did, was to sync my contact-folder with Plaxo. This had the same impact ... slow slow slow > Why are you importing from a PST file? PST is Outlook's native format. It > does not require conversion. Stop importing. Just open the PST file and copy [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > yet), > > outlook behaves normal again. > The consequence of opening the pst-file, is that it now shows me two > contact folders. One regular contacts-folder, and one 'contacts in [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > becomes very slow. Fyi : The first thing I did, was to sync my > contact-folder with Plaxo. This had the same impact ... slow slow slow Plaxo is known to cause unwanted side-effects in Outlook. Try uninstalling Plaxo to see if that changes things. SignatureBrian Tillman Hi Brian. I uninstalled plaxo, at your request. Rebooted the system. Moved all the contacts from the 'contacts from personal folder' to the 'contacts folder'. Outlook still behaves slow, as soon as this folder is populated. > > The consequence of opening the pst-file, is that it now shows me two > > contact folders. One regular contacts-folder, and one 'contacts in [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Plaxo is known to cause unwanted side-effects in Outlook. Try uninstalling > Plaxo to see if that changes things. > I uninstalled plaxo, at your request. Rebooted the system. Moved all > the contacts from the 'contacts from personal folder' to the > 'contacts folder'. Outlook still behaves slow, as soon as this folder > is populated. I wish I could duplicate the problem, but I can't. Sorry. SignatureBrian Tillman Neither can I. The symptoms suggest a problem with the data that is being copied or imported. Have you tried repairing this file? Is it still the same file into which you imported Contacts? SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > >> I uninstalled plaxo, at your request. Rebooted the system. Moved all [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > I wish I could duplicate the problem, but I can't. Sorry. I have spent 14 hours and out of pocket money on a new Dell computer having this issue. I tried to use my Palm Pilot, then an outside program to import my contacts and saved email and tasks from an old laptop with Office 2000 to a new one with Office 2003. Finally I exported to a .pst file, restarted the computer to brand new condition (losing everything not backed up), activated Office and imported the .pst file. Now it is running normally. You would think they'd make this a lot easier. SignatureWW > When I import contacts from a .pst-file, outlook becomes very slow. > When I create a new mail profile (which is empty/no contacts imported yet), > outlook behaves normal again. They did. You never use export and import for transferring Outlook data. You never use synchs to transfer Outlook data. Outlook data resides in one file. Just copy that file and open it in another installation. Nothing is easier than that. Why did you go through all those other steps? SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I have spent 14 hours and out of pocket money on a new Dell computer having > this issue. I tried to use my Palm Pilot, then an outside program to [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> yet), >> outlook behaves normal again. |
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