Hi guys,
I followed a guide on here... connected then deleted all the emails off my phone etc..
But now I have no contact on msn / hotmail on my pc or my phone?!?!?!
AWESOME.
Anyway to get them back?
Thanks.
MSN Live contacts disappear.
Hi,
So sorry for this, it's has happened to me, it usually occurs when you connect your phone to PC and Sync, and by default ActiveSync is set to 'Export' so if your Outlook has no contacts, that means it exports an empty Contacts DB to your phone, in other words it deletes all your contacts off your phone, then when you connect to Windows Live and sync your contacts, again, that will further export an empty DB from your phone's contacts to your Hotmail contacts DB, which will further delete your contacts off that and that will result in losing your MSN contacts. I had to manually re-create all my contacts, it's so annoying, in the future always create a CSV file of your contacts as a backup, also the same on your phone, use a little freeware called PPC PIM Backup, to backup your contacts. To conclude you lost your contacts for good and you just need to start inputting manually, but be aware of the above in the future.
Regards,
I used my "ALLOW" list to restore the contacts...
good luck.
Been there, done that
Yep. Happened to me too. Luckily Adium had a backup of all my contacts so it asked if I wanted to add them all when I launched it after Live Messenger messed things up.
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At first I lost all but those that I had received an sms from, and then when I deleted all my messages, my contact list is now blank? How do I retrieve my contacts? (100+ numbers I haven't got written down anywhere)
check deleted items?
Have you checked ''Deleted Item''
A volatile folder where sms r stored after deleting from inbox
denjo said:
Have you checked ''Deleted Item''
A volatile folder where sms r stored after deleting from inbox
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I don't care about the deleted sms, I need my entire contact list / phonebook back.
*edit* and I just used SIM Manager in Accessories to get all of my old (ie from before I bought my Orbit) contacts from the simcard, but still no sign of another 75+ missing numbers.
Have you not synchronised with Outlook?
most likely sync with empty contact outlook have cause this
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Have you not synchronised with Outlook?
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My work pc had to be reformatted, using a copy of windows without outlook? Windows Live Mail or some such rubbish instead. Is there any way of retrieving my contacts then?
If you reformatted your PC and lost Outlook, then you have more than likely lost the contacts for good. You should have deleted your PC partnership on the phone, reinstalled Outlook and then synced as that would of just added the contacts back to your new install of Outlook.
I hate to say it, but unless you have the files from your old windows installation, then your stuffed.
I just reinstalled my OS on my laptop and i must not have backed up my outlook contacts properly cause they were not importing from the file that i thought had them. i had them all on my phone and thought i could transfer from the phone TO Outlook. I was trying to check the settings in activesync to make sure it doesn't just delete the phone contacts with the blank outlook database, but before i looked it had already deleted everything, leaving me now with zero copies of my contacts. Is there any way at all to retrieve the contacts from somewhere in the phone or am i dead in the water? Thanks in advance
Contacts ALL gone....
You need to use Pim Backup in case of these events. Its freeware and available on the forum.
I wiped and reloaded my dash with RW 6.1 and synced my contacts from Dashwire. Strangely however, none of my contacts show up in the contacts list, but if I start typing a name the names come up. Also, when people call they are recognized. So where did my contacts go??
sounds like they are on the sim card and are hidden. Try this, go to Start>Settings>Phone>Call Options and see if the "Show SIM contacts" is checked.
If the above doesn't Solve your problems. You should of had backed up all your Contacts before doing the update.
Thanks for the quick responses.
gospeed, the "show sim contact" option is selected.
axiomkid, backing up is not the issue. 1. they are backed up on dashwire and 2. they are outlook contacts. the problem is not losing my contacts...its finding them on my phone.
Edit: I also just checked the 'Contacts Information' in the Sim Manager and see that I have 357 contacts. The SIM capability says 0/0. Hope that helps a bit more.
wow, that is strange! although I have never used that software I dont know where they could be "hiding"!
Any other solutions to the "hidden" contacts that do exist on my phone?
I somehow missed that we were talking about Outlook contacts, so my bad on the sim part...I use Outlook to sync my contacts so I am not sure about where they could go using alternative software- but have you tried to sync with Outlook to see if they somehow appear? Its about all I got! Wish I could help
I guess it will help if I gave the whole scenario. After reinstalling 6.1 I synced my contacts from Dashwire to the phone. Everything was fine. I then setup my Outlook email and did a sync and the contacts were duplicated. I could not find any solution to delete ALL contacts. So I d/l Jeyo Companion and deleted all of the contacts from the phone. I then synced again from Dashwire to test and now I am sitting with this current problem. I have been trying to delete my outlook account and start over, but I could not (disabled).
Hope this clears some things up. I am going to try and delete my outlook on the phone and see what happens.
I keep playing w/ Microsoft Activesync, but I can't figure out how to just save my contacts into a file on my comp, so if I have to reset it, I can just drag it back onto the phone and viola. Any advice? I googled it and couldnt' find a step by step. I'm a huge newb with this, so it's much appreciated
Search for PIM Backup... That backs up everything, inc messages, call logs, contacts, e-mails etc
+1 for PIM Backup. Also, Microsoft My Phone works very well too. You can get it in the Marketplace.
If you have synced your contacts to Outlook via ActiveSync, you will be able to sync them back to a new phone or after a hard reset.
Dashwire also works great.
i use active sync with my gmail acct, my contacts get sync to google.
as an idea, the good part is when i flash roms, i just need to add the active sync back to get contacts back.
I use activesync to backup my contacts on my computer and PIM Backup to have them on my storage card, which has come in handy MANY times!
Hi, After using gmail to sync al contacts, calendars & mail & getting fed up with the way google handles contacts, I decided to untick "contacts sync" from googlemail on the phone, then hooked phone up to pc & sync'ed calendar & contacts. In doing so, I have somehow & very stupidly removed ALL my outlook contacts...I can get to my googlemail contacts but outlook is now empty of contacts...please tell me there's a way to get them back from somewhere! Thanks very much
Check the Outlook trashcan.
lol...what a doozy. In the mad flap I was in just didn't think straight. Thanks very much indeed for that. Is there a way I can stop this happening again? I only want Outlook contacts on the phone but happy to sync email & calendar with my gmail account. Cheers again, appreciate your help.
I also decided to remove all sync'ing from my google account- if you have done the same, then you shouldn't have that issue again.
Just to be on the safe side, now that you have your contacts back in Outlook, I'd suggest creating a back up of it (perhaps regularly), to a PST file or similar. Might to be wise to use an app to backup contacts/calender entries directly from the phone- Wave Secure as an example.
Cheers for that, outlook contacts backed up yesterday straight after restoring them back! Appreciate the advice though sh500
Just a quickie now though, I've made a "group" to send funny texts onto and while ome of the texts go to the mobile number, some are being sent to emails...again, anything really simple & dumb I'm doing here? I have set the mobile number as "primary" on all the group members but the phone seems to mix up the emails with the mob' numbers if the contact has more than 1 email address, 1 of which I set as primary too. Cheers again...