![]() ![]() It hasn't been, and now this current problem is making that worse. Surely they would want their flagship suite to be wonderful to use. So, since I have Office 2010, why not go with the email program written by Microsoft, the biggest software company in the world. I picked Outlook 2010, thinking this transition would be a giant pain (it was), and I didn't want to do it twice. When the developers abandoned Eudora, I stayed with it a long time, but eventually decided I had to pick another email client. I really miss Eudora, which never did anything like this to me. Outlook should not create a secret contacts list unless asked to in settings, and there should be a simple, easily found way to tell Outlook 2010 to STOP doing that if this feature gets turned on. If Outlook 2010 is creating a secret contact list, it's a good example of why some people end up hating Microsoft. You can probably skip the rest of this post - it's just complaining. So, if somebody could help me get all of my contacts showing up again in Outlook 2010, I'd be grateful. IMAP, nor why that would matter, but just checked and all of my "account"s in Outlook 2010 are listed as SMTP/POP. I don't have a clear understanding of SMTP vs. Somebody else whose contacts were not showing up in Outlook posted something on this board a while ago, and someone asked whether their accounts were SMTP, IMAP, or something-else-I-forgot. As I remember, Outlook would prefer to be running in some big enterprise, with an enterprise contact list, so sometimes it goes ahead and creates a secret enterprise contact list and then there are conflicts between that and the actual contact list. Somewhere, a long time ago, I read something about this, I think. I could try that with the missing Outlook contacts, if I knew which ones they were, and if Outlook would let me have access to them. As I remember, I deleted the contact in Outlook 2010, and in Google, then re-created the contact. ![]() Outlook routinely would refuse to send mail to that person, with some irritating, computer gibberish message which at first sounded like the problem was at the recipient's end, but eventually turned out to be a problem in Outlook. I think I had a related problem some time ago with one of my contacts in Outlook 2010. Only Outlook denies that they're in Outlook. But, apparently it has access to the Outlook 2010's secret hiding place, because it doesn't delete the contacts from Google, so CompanionLink thinks they're in Outlook. CompanionLink still runs happily, without error messages. I've been using CompanionLink to coordinate my Outlook Contacts list with my Google Contacts list. On a side note, in the "suggested contacts" in Outlook 2010, some of my existing contacts (that do show up in the main Contacts folder) are listed. I made a few changes, saved, and voila' - Outlook now shows that contact in my contacts list. But, when I right-clicked on the name & email that Outlook had filled in on the "to" line, and selected "look up Outlook contact", Outlook found the contact and showed it to me. On that one, likewise, neither a manual search nor an automatic search could find the entry in my contacts list. The other SMC has now magically reappeared in my Outlook contacts. Now, for these suddenly semi-missing contacts ("SMCs"), their messages are also being routed to the alternate (low priority) inbox. That way, spam, etc., doesn't make me miss emails from sources I care about. This is particularly frustrating, because I use a Rule to have all emails from sources not in my Contact list routed to a different folder than the Inbox. most of my contacts do show up in my Outlook 2010 contact list, just not all of them. There is a random aspect to this problem. I hoped that deleting the account, and deleting the add-on software, would solve the problem. This problem became acute when I trusted MS and set up an account, and then installed the Outlook add-on to integrate the account with Outlook 2010. In the one that's still missing, if I right-click on the name/email (where Outlook filled it into the outgoing email 'to' line), and select "look up Outlook contact" I get an error popup, "Could not find an Outlook contact with this email address." So even though Outlook just filled it in, Outlook denies knowing anything about it. I've just been dealing with two of these contacts. But, I know Outlook has them, because if I start to type in the person's email address in the 'TO' line, Outlook will fill in the name and email address. Neither a manual search (scrolling down the contacts list), nor typing the name or email into the search box will find them. ![]() Some of my Outlook contacts are not showing up in the Outlook contact list. ![]()
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