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| Thread ID: 110321 | 2010-06-12 04:28:00 | Lost distribution list in Outlook 2007 | R.M. (561) | Press F1 |
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| 1109460 | 2010-06-12 04:28:00 | I use Outlook 2007 for organising my emails, including a 'Distribution List' of club members. Today I tried to delete 'just one member' from the list, and to my horror, found that the whole Distribution List had gone! Oh horrors.:( I got no warnings at all of the impending disaster/action. However, I was able to go back to the last newsletter I sent out at the end of last month and retrieve the names (and email addys). Is there a quicker way to do this? Is there something else I should be doing? |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 1109461 | 2010-06-12 05:04:00 | did you check the deleted items folder? normally everything you delete sits in there. I have accidentally deleted contacts in the past and was able to get them back from the deleted items folder. | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 1109462 | 2010-06-12 05:41:00 | No - it's not there...:badpc: | R.M. (561) | ||
| 1109463 | 2010-06-12 06:22:00 | save a copy of your contacts folder. In outlook go file import export choose export to a file choose (I use CSV an excel type) then choose contacts this should save a copy of your contacts in an excel spreadsheet | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1109464 | 2010-06-12 06:41:00 | Yes, that is a useful thought/suggestion. But - I don't think it should be quite so easy to lose something in cyberspace! I'm reasonably meticulous, but the speed with the disappearance of all that work...:annoyed: I've had my rant now.:crying :) |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 1109465 | 2010-06-12 07:27:00 | Yes, that is a useful thought/suggestion. But - I don't think it should be quite so easy to lose something in cyberspace! I'm reasonably meticulous, but the speed with the disappearance of all that work...:annoyed: I've had my rant now.:crying :) I replicated your problem and found the distribution list in my deleted items. I bckup my *.pst file on a daily basis. That file contains the address book so if you have a backup you could just import contacts back into Outlook. Have a look here so you can do it for the future. support.microsoft.com |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 1109466 | 2010-06-12 09:24:00 | Thanks for that, Sweep. I'll look at it more carefully tomorrow. :) I do have backups, but probably not as often as I should... :( Perhaps you have to look at it before you close Outlook - I went back to the Deleted Items later (hadn't shut the 'puter down though), but after I had closed and reopened Outlook. And no, it wasn't there. Bother! |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 1109467 | 2010-06-12 09:29:00 | If you go to Tools > Options > Other is the empty deleted items on exit ticked? If so then that will be why you can't find the list in deleted items since you closed Outlook. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 1109468 | 2010-06-12 10:13:00 | I too back up my pst file daily but I also do the export contacts at least once a month as well into my docs which then gets backed up daily over my network so that I always have 3 versions. One from my daily incremental image one pst backup and one contacts backup |
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