How do I delete recently imported contacts in Outlook 2000?

[Stevie J.]

I recently lost the display on my IBM T40. Luckily, my wife has the same
laptop, so I exported my outlook contacts (Outlook 2000) from my laptop, and
imported them into a separate Personal Folder File (or so I thought) on my
wife's laptop.

Not only did it load my 750 contacts into her Outlook contact list, but it
duplicated them. So instead of having her 150 contacts, she has 1,650
contacts. I am looking for a way to undo this and perhaps take her outlook
program back to a time prior to my attempt at the import.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

You cannot undo an import. That is one of the many reasons it is never the
correct way to transfer Outlook data.

 

[CSO]

Then is there a way to wipe the data file clean and start from scratch? I
tried deleting the data file and reinstalling the Outlook program, but had to
undo the delete etc...

You cannot undo an import. That is one of the many reasons it is never the
correct way to transfer Outlook data.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I recently lost the display on my IBM T40. Luckily, my wife has the same
laptop, so I exported my outlook contacts (Outlook 2000) from my laptop,
and
imported them into a separate Personal Folder File (or so I thought) on my
wife's laptop.

Not only did it load my 750 contacts into her Outlook contact list, but it
duplicated them. So instead of having her 150 contacts, she has 1,650
contacts. I am looking for a way to undo this and perhaps take her
outlook
program back to a time prior to my attempt at the import.

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

You could find the Date Last Modified Field and sort by it.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant www.pragmatix.com.au
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on my website.

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Then is there a way to wipe the data file clean and start from scratch? I
tried deleting the data file and reinstalling the Outlook program, but had
to
undo the delete etc...

You cannot undo an import. That is one of the many reasons it is never
the
correct way to transfer Outlook data.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

I recently lost the display on my IBM T40. Luckily, my wife has the
same
laptop, so I exported my outlook contacts (Outlook 2000) from my
laptop,
and
imported them into a separate Personal Folder File (or so I thought) on
my
wife's laptop.

Not only did it load my 750 contacts into her Outlook contact list, but
it
duplicated them. So instead of having her 150 contacts, she has 1,650
contacts. I am looking for a way to undo this and perhaps take her
outlook
program back to a time prior to my attempt at the import.

 

[Karl Timmermans]

For the purpose of this reply - will assume the following:

#1 - You don't have a backup of your wife's original PST file prior to your
import
#2 - Sounds like you imported from your own original PST file from the T40
which you should still have
#3 - Everything got imported into wife's primary contact folder and not into
a sub-folder
(*** sidenote - really puzzled about the actual import process followed
since it doesn't make sense - have never seen Outlook ever duplicate
anything on its in all the years involved with migrating data into and out
of Outlook)

If the above is correct - then would do the following

On your wife's laptop:

#1 - Sort the contacts using the Creation Date - delete all contacts as of
the date you performed the import (check with wife to ensure that no new
legit contacts were added after that date). Reason for not suggesting Last
Mod date is because wife may have made changes to some of her own contacts
since you imported.
#2 - Delete those contacts - that contact folder should now be clean of all
extraneous data
#3 - Open your PST file from your own T40 on your wife's laptop (you will
now have all your data from the old laptop on wife's laptop, contacts, email
etc etc)
*** remember that if you open your original PST - wife's Outlook folder list
will show 2 "Personal folders" - rename your PST file to reflect which is
which (only wife's will be the default)

That at least gets you all your data and leaves everything neat and tidy.
When you get your laptop fixed (or replaced) - just reverse the process by
copying your PST file back to your repaired/new machine and life once again
becomes happy.

Karl

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Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter
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