Two Contacts Folders and an annoying problem.

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Mary - 09 Jan 2004 20:49 GMT

I just got Office 2003 and exported my contact list from
my old computer into a floppy (as a pst file). Then I
imported it into the new computer in Outlook. Somehow I
ended up with two CONTACT folders and the empty one I
cannot delete. Is there a way to copy the full one and
then remove the empty one? Is one of them somehow
programmed so that you cannot delete it? Any help would
be welcome.

Also, after importing the contacts from the A: drive, and
then removing the disk, the Outlook 2003 Program keeps
announcing that it can't find the file in A:. The
contacts are definitely there and fine (in Outlook) and it
doesn't need the disk. How can I get the system to stop
asking me for that disk.

Thank you.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 09 Jan 2004 21:33 GMT

Yet another example of why importing PST files is such a bad idea. You
should have moved the PST file from the floppy to your hard drive, opened it
in Outlook, then copied the Contents into the default Contacts Folder in the
new installation.

You cannot delete a default Folder, which I assume is the one that is still
empty. Move the contents of the Contacts Folder that contains data to your
default Contacts Folder. Then delete the second Contacts Folder.

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> I just got Office 2003 and exported my contact list from
> my old computer into a floppy (as a pst file). Then I
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> Thank you.

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