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.
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I have upgrade from an XDAI to an XDAII, I have trawled through this forum and cannot find the answer. Please put me out of my misery want to transfer the data stored on the XDAI to my XDAII what is the best way of doing it. Obviously you cant use backup and restore and I have tried copying and pasting the Db directory (not possible).
Any clues anyone, I would be very gratefull
what data because if it's just contacts and appointments and tasks and such tnen it activesync with outlook and will automaticly be transfered
programs you can reinstall using activesync 's addremove programs
It is contacts appointments etc.. but I cant use my contacts and appointments because I administrate about 20 of these XDA's so they only connect as guests. I dont want all of the appointments and contacts in my Outlook.
spirit backup or something i think let you choose what you will be backing up maybe if you can choose only those things you can restore it on the xda2 even though it came from xda1
cowle said:
It is contacts appointments etc.. but I cant use my contacts and appointments because I administrate about 20 of these XDA's so they only connect as guests. I dont want all of the appointments and contacts in my Outlook.
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You could just add a new user to windows and use that user's outlook for activesync to store the information in, then delete everything and move on to the next one.. Not ideal, but it should work.
Oh, if you make the user's profile mandatory (not sure if you can do that on a stand alone windows computer, but you can on a domain), all the settings (including outlook contents) should be lost when you log out. That should make things easier still. Just get the user's profile so far as to enable it to sync, make it mandatory, and then log in, sync, sync, log out, repeat.
Can you not just back up to an SD card those apps/data you want and then restore to the new advice. Not tried it, just a thought.
Regards
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.
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 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!
Hello All,
I just lost al my contacts from my phone. I was attempting to sync them to outlook but apparenlty the blank zero contacts from outlook got synched to the phone.. NOW I have no contacts wondering if I can retried them.. somehow..
Thanks
i think you cannot retrieve them anymore. they are all lost. at list mine was, coz i did the same thing!!! i forgot to check "change the item on the pc" instead of on the phone... and all contacts where lost. too bad. after that im using microsoft myphone as backup, and all the contacts are uploeded at their server and i can retrive them if something like this happen.