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How can I keep contacts on my pc but not in Hotmail?
I have a hotmail.com account and Outlook 2007 as my email client. I would
like to keep my email contacts only in Outlook, not on hotmail. In Outlook, I'm confused by 'address book' and 'contacts' and 'contacts in personal folders' etc.... 'Contacts' seems to point to my hotmail.com account. It has an 'Outlook Address Book' whose name is 'Contacts in '. 'Contacts in Personal Folders' seems to point to \\Personal Folders and has an Outlook Address Book called 'Contacts'. 'Tools...Address Book' shows two address books in a pop-up window: 'Outlook Address Book' and 'contacts in '. I'm confused! If I open an email and want to save the sender's details, I right-mouse-click the senders's name and email address, then select 'Add to Outlook Contacts'. I was hoping this would be stored somewhere just in Outlook, but it seems it gets stored also in the online Contacts folder in my hotmail.com account. |
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How can I keep contacts on my pc but not in Hotmail?
More info... In Tools...Address Book, I select 'Outlook Address Book'.
There are no entries here, so I select File...New Entry, I select 'New Contact' and 'put this entry' into 'Outlook Address Book' (rather than 'Contacts in '). But I get a msg "you cannot create entries for this Address Book" !! |
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How can I keep contacts on my pc but not in Hotmail?
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... I have a hotmail.com account and Outlook 2007 as my email client. I would like to keep my email contacts only in Outlook, not on hotmail. In Outlook, I'm confused by 'address book' and 'contacts' and 'contacts in personal folders' etc.... 'Contacts' seems to point to my hotmail.com account. It has an 'Outlook Address Book' whose name is 'Contacts in '. 'Contacts in Personal Folders' seems to point to \\Personal Folders and has an Outlook Address Book called 'Contacts'. 'Tools...Address Book' shows two address books in a pop-up window: 'Outlook Address Book' and 'contacts in '. I'm confused! If you see "Contacts" and "Contacts in Personal Folders", then the data store containing "Contacts" is your delivery location (i.e., the data store chosen as default in ToolsAccount SettingsData Files). From your description, this appears to be the Hotmail data store and you have a PST as well whose display name is "Personal Folders". If I open an email and want to save the sender's details, I right-mouse-click the senders's name and email address, then select 'Add to Outlook Contacts'. I was hoping this would be stored somewhere just in Outlook, but it seems it gets stored also in the online Contacts folder in my hotmail.com account. By definition, the default folders are the folders in the delivery location data store. This means that any New command (i.e., new Contact, Note, Meeting Request, Appointment, etc.) will create the item in the appropriate folder in the delivery location. If you want the Add to Outlook Contacts to create the contact in the "Contacts in Personal Folders", then you have two choices: either make the "Personal Folders" data store the delivery location (i.e., select it as default on the Data Files tab), or click FileMove to Folder on the contact form that opens and specify the Contacts folder in the Personal Folders data store. My personal choice is to have the local PST the default data store and have the Hotmail data store as an added store. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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How can I keep contacts on my pc but not in Hotmail?
Brian - thanks, seems to work fine. One further question, if I may (I don't
think this is related, if it isn't I'll gladly post in the correct discussion group): I have two sets of Outlook mail folders, "Personal Folders" and my online Hotmail folders. I have an Inbox folder in Personal Folders, and I manually drag 'n' drop mail there from the Hotmail Inbox folder. This appears to be a 'copy' - is there any way I can get this to be a 'move', so I don't have to go online to Hotmail and manually them? Better still, can things be set up such that mail in my Hotmail Inbox automatically gets moved to Personal Folders ... Inbox whenever I start up Outlook? Thanks, Guy "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote: "Guy" wrote in message ... I have a hotmail.com account and Outlook 2007 as my email client. I would like to keep my email contacts only in Outlook, not on hotmail. In Outlook, I'm confused by 'address book' and 'contacts' and 'contacts in personal folders' etc.... 'Contacts' seems to point to my hotmail.com account. It has an 'Outlook Address Book' whose name is 'Contacts in '. 'Contacts in Personal Folders' seems to point to \\Personal Folders and has an Outlook Address Book called 'Contacts'. 'Tools...Address Book' shows two address books in a pop-up window: 'Outlook Address Book' and 'contacts in '. I'm confused! If you see "Contacts" and "Contacts in Personal Folders", then the data store containing "Contacts" is your delivery location (i.e., the data store chosen as default in ToolsAccount SettingsData Files). From your description, this appears to be the Hotmail data store and you have a PST as well whose display name is "Personal Folders". If I open an email and want to save the sender's details, I right-mouse-click the senders's name and email address, then select 'Add to Outlook Contacts'. I was hoping this would be stored somewhere just in Outlook, but it seems it gets stored also in the online Contacts folder in my hotmail.com account. By definition, the default folders are the folders in the delivery location data store. This means that any New command (i.e., new Contact, Note, Meeting Request, Appointment, etc.) will create the item in the appropriate folder in the delivery location. If you want the Add to Outlook Contacts to create the contact in the "Contacts in Personal Folders", then you have two choices: either make the "Personal Folders" data store the delivery location (i.e., select it as default on the Data Files tab), or click FileMove to Folder on the contact form that opens and specify the Contacts folder in the Personal Folders data store. My personal choice is to have the local PST the default data store and have the Hotmail data store as an added store. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] . |
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How can I keep contacts on my pc but not in Hotmail?
"Guy" wrote in message
... Brian - thanks, seems to work fine. One further question, if I may (I don't think this is related, if it isn't I'll gladly post in the correct discussion group): I have two sets of Outlook mail folders, "Personal Folders" and my online Hotmail folders. I have an Inbox folder in Personal Folders, and I manually drag 'n' drop mail there from the Hotmail Inbox folder. This appears to be a 'copy' - is there any way I can get this to be a 'move', so I don't have to go online to Hotmail and manually them? Better still, can things be set up such that mail in my Hotmail Inbox automatically gets moved to Personal Folders ... Inbox whenever I start up Outlook? When I drag and drop from Hotmail to local folders, it's a move. Only if I right-click and drag, choosing Copy is is a copy. The server should get the correct information at the next sync. If you access Hotmail via POP, then you can have Outlook download and delete Hotmail messages. The POP account cannot manipulate Calendar or Contacts on the Hotmail server, though, since POP is a mail only protocol. One thing you can do is to set up two accounts: the Hotmail Connector-mediated account and a POP account referencing the Hotmail mailbox. This will pull all mail on Hotmail to the local PST-based folders, but still allow you to access the other Hotmail features using the Hotmail Connector. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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