Transferred Contacts But Not Available When Click To Button In New

[Dell Boy]

I have recently changed from a Vista Ultimate to a Win 7 Ultimate desktop and
moved my contacts over to Outlook on the new machine. When I go in to the
Contacts folder I can see all my contacts but when I click the To button on a
new email message they don't appear.

I transferred the contacts from Outlook 2007 SP2 + latest updates on the
Vista Ultimate machine to Outlook 2007 SP2 + latest updates on the Win 7
Ultimate computer.

The other thing that might be relevant is that I don't have any contacts in
the main Contacts folder, they are all in sub-folders.

When I click the To button in a new email message it shows the empty
Contacts folder but not the populated sub-folders that have been transferred.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Right click any of your Contacts subfolders and choose Properties. On the
Outlook Address Book tab you can enable them to show up in your Address
Book.

 

[David Q]

I have exactly the same problem, and look forward to someone advising a
solution! I transferred from a Windows XP PC with Outloook 2002 to a Windows
7 PC Outlook 2007; and I took the precatution (which all these posts tell
you about) not to import anything into the new Outlook, but to copy the .pst
file from the old PC to the new PC Outlook folder. Everything else works OK
- although there is still the original empty Personal Folders which is
created when Outlook is installed, and there seems to be no way of getting
rid of it.

You wiull find that, as well as having nothing when you go to "To", you
cannot work the Rules Wizard with email from anyone, as you cannot get the
Rules Wizard to look at the populated contacts folder.

I think it may be something to do with not having set up an equivalence or
connection between what is called Address Book and the relevant Contacts
Folder. But I dont know how to check that, or do it if I have to. Any
advice?

 

[Russ Valentine]

Your post has been answered several times including in this thread.