Removing Outlook contact folders

[remco070]

Hi, I just migrated to Outlook 2007 Bèta and am having a bit of
trouble with my address book. I migrated from a non-English version of
Office 2003, and now I have two address contact folders, "Contacts" and
"Contactpersonen" (the dutch version). Outlook won't let me delete
"Contacts" because it's probably the standard Outlook file or
something. When I try to use the pull-down menu to copy everything from
"Contactpersonen" to "Contacts", it creates a subdirectory in
"Contacts" but it won't put the contacts in the root folder... I just
don't get it?! Help!

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Where are you seeing this duplicate? In the Address Book view or in the
Navigation pane?
How did you migrate your data to the beta version?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Hi, I just migrated to Outlook 2007 Bèta and am having a bit of
trouble with my address book. I migrated from a non-English version of
Office 2003, and now I have two address contact folders, "Contacts" and
"Contactpersonen" (the dutch version). Outlook won't let me delete
"Contacts" because it's probably the standard Outlook file or
something. When I try to use the pull-down menu to copy everything from
"Contactpersonen" to "Contacts", it creates a subdirectory in
"Contacts" but it won't put the contacts in the root folder... I just
don't get it?! Help!

 

[remco070]

I'm seeing it in the Navigation Pane. I just did an update on Office,
but have been moving some .pst files because I couldn't get rid of a
data file Office had created. Could this have caused the problem?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hi, I just migrated to Outlook 2007 Bèta and am having a bit of
trouble with my address book. I migrated from a non-English version of
Office 2003, and now I have two address contact folders, "Contacts"
and "Contactpersonen" (the dutch version). Outlook won't let me delete
"Contacts" because it's probably the standard Outlook file or
something. When I try to use the pull-down menu to copy everything
from "Contactpersonen" to "Contacts", it creates a subdirectory in
"Contacts" but it won't put the contacts in the root folder... I just
don't get it?! Help!

Open the "Contactpersonen" folder, select all the items in it with CTRL-A,
and then click Edit>Copy to folder. Specify the Contacts folder as the
destination. You can't copy the contents of the folder by copying the
folder itself.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes. If you can't R click and close the folder you don't want, you have a
corrupt profile. You probably have a corrupt profile anyway if you just did
an in place upgrade. Always create a new profile if you attempt an in place
upgrade, especially with a beta.