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Group: microsoft.public.outlook.contacts · Group Profile
Author: Diane Poremsky {MVP}
Date: Jul 12, 2008 09:03

recognizes it as in 'displays it in a dropdown as you begin typing the
name' or 'underlines it after you leave the To field'

Those are two different things - the first is the autocomplete cache. Names
can disappear either because its corrupt or because they aren't used much -
there is a limit of about 2000 names in the file. Archiving will not affect
this. The cache is specific to each profile so removing exchange and
creating a new profile will make a new cache file.

The second is autoresolve and uses actual contacts stored in your contact
folder. Archive could remove these, if the contacts folder is enabled for
archiving.

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"Hans" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2B0682D4-F814-4945-B209-D874BA117F2B@microsoft.com...
> when I send an email to someone I regularly send and receive emails, I
> type
> the name in the To... line and normally Outlook recognizes that and fills
> in
> the email address.
>
> "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> Disappears from where, in what version and what information store?
>> Outlook
>> does not randomly lose data all by itself. There is more to your story
>> than
>> you have told us. What add-ins or sync software are you running, for
>> example? What method are you using to send when you think Outlook can't
>> find
>> a Contact?
>> --
>> Russ Valentine
>> [MVP-Outlook]
>> "Hans" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:30A9FAEC-2249-47DC-8CDB-5F802DEDBCA8@microsoft.com...
>>>I am using Outlook for years and sometimes i notice that a contact has
>>> disappeared. I have not consiously archived something or changed
>>> anything.
>>> Sometimes i notice it because I want to look up someone in the contacts
>>> database or sometimes I notice it because with sending an email Outlook
>>> does
>>> not recognize the name anymore...
>>> This is very strange and it makes me loose my trust in outlook.
>>>
>>> I see on the internet that a lot of people have this problem and I have
>>> never seen a satisfying answer to this problem.
>>
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