Depends on your Outlook version and in what view you see this. You provided
no information.
--
Russ Valentine
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden, I have duplicate accounts. One says "Contacts" & the
other says "Contacts in Personal Folders". I'm not sure how this came
about. How can I delete the latter, without using the former.
--
Thank you in advance.
Phil

Sorry. I have Outlook 2003 & this happens when I click on Contacts
regardless of the Current View. Under My Contacts in the Navigation Pane,
there appears "Contacts" & "Contacts in Personal Folders".

I have just noticed that if I right click "Contacts in Personal Folders",
there is an option to Delete it or to Remove it from "My Contacts". Could
you tell me the difference between these two options?
Thanks again,
--
Phil

Russ Valentine wrote:
Depends on your Outlook version and in what view you see this. You
provided no information.

Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...
All of a sudden, I have duplicate accounts. One says "Contacts" & the
other says "Contacts in Personal Folders". I'm not sure how this came
about. How can I delete the latter, without using the former.
--
Thank you in advance.
Phil

"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...

I have just noticed that if I right click "Contacts in Personal Folders",
there is an option to Delete it or to Remove it from "My Contacts". Could
you tell me the difference between these two options?

Chosing Delete should attempt to delete the folder. Chosing Remove won't
attempt to delete the folder but will remove it from the Nav Pane "My
Contacts".section.

If you choose the Folder List vew of the Nav Pane, how many folder sets do you
see?
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...

I have just noticed that if I right click "Contacts in Personal
Folders", there is an option to Delete it or to Remove it from "My
Contacts". Could you tell me the difference between these two options?

Chosing Delete should attempt to delete the folder. Chosing Remove
won't attempt to delete the folder but will remove it from the Nav Pane
"My Contacts".section.

If you choose the Folder List vew of the Nav Pane, how many folder sets
do you see?

If I choose Folder List (Ctrl+6) in the Navigation Pane, I see 4 sets of
folders:
1. Personal Folders
2. Archive Folders
3. Personal Folders
4. Personal Folders

However, I can't tell if all are duplicates. e.g. in one personal folder,
Calendar appears with the correct background color that I picked. In the
other 2, the background is yellow.

I'm not sure what to do.

--
Thanks again,
Phil

Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...

I have just noticed that if I right click "Contacts in Personal
Folders", there is an option to Delete it or to Remove it from "My
Contacts". Could you tell me the difference between these two options?

Chosing Delete should attempt to delete the folder. Chosing Remove
won't attempt to delete the folder but will remove it from the Nav Pane
"My Contacts".section.

If you choose the Folder List vew of the Nav Pane, how many folder sets
do you see?

OK. I may have found the answer. I had copies of outlook.pst in the
application data folder for Outlook that I called "copy of outlook.pst",
"copy 2 of outlook.pst" & 3rd. I thought Outlook only looked at the one
named Outlook.pst.

I deleted the copies & reopened Outlook. It complained that it couldn't
find the server for the copies & then went back to normal.

So I guess if I want copies of outlook.pst (in case I screw something up), I
should rename the extension. Is that right?

--
Thanks again,
Phil

No. You never rename, delete, or move a PST file that is connected to an
Outlook profile.
If you want to back up a PST file you make a copy of it. How you ended up
with more than one PST file connected to your profile remains unexplained.
It was end user error and the end user does not remember what he did.
--
Russ Valentine
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...

I have just noticed that if I right click "Contacts in Personal
Folders", there is an option to Delete it or to Remove it from "My
Contacts". Could you tell me the difference between these two options?

Chosing Delete should attempt to delete the folder. Chosing Remove won't
attempt to delete the folder but will remove it from the Nav Pane "My
Contacts".section.

If you choose the Folder List vew of the Nav Pane, how many folder sets
do you see?

OK. I may have found the answer. I had copies of outlook.pst in the
application data folder for Outlook that I called "copy of outlook.pst",
"copy 2 of outlook.pst" & 3rd. I thought Outlook only looked at the one
named Outlook.pst.

I deleted the copies & reopened Outlook. It complained that it couldn't
find the server for the copies & then went back to normal.

So I guess if I want copies of outlook.pst (in case I screw something up),
I should rename the extension. Is that right?

--
Thanks again,
Phil

Sorry I didn't explain. I made the copies while Outlook was closed...just
by going to the folder, selecting the file, & pressing Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+V.
I did that as a backup when I was going to make changes that I might want
to reverse. I just didn't realize that Outlook would open all *.pst files
in that folder; I had thought it only opened "outlook.pst".
--
Thanks again,
Phil

Russ Valentine wrote:
No. You never rename, delete, or move a PST file that is connected to an
Outlook profile.
If you want to back up a PST file you make a copy of it. How you ended
up with more than one PST file connected to your profile remains
unexplained. It was end user error and the end user does not remember
what he did.

Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...

I have just noticed that if I right click "Contacts in Personal
Folders", there is an option to Delete it or to Remove it from "My
Contacts". Could you tell me the difference between these two options?

Chosing Delete should attempt to delete the folder. Chosing Remove
won't attempt to delete the folder but will remove it from the Nav Pane "My
Contacts".section.

If you choose the Folder List vew of the Nav Pane, how many folder sets
do you see?

OK. I may have found the answer. I had copies of outlook.pst in the
application data folder for Outlook that I called "copy of outlook.pst",
"copy 2 of outlook.pst" & 3rd. I thought Outlook only looked at the one
named Outlook.pst.

I deleted the copies & reopened Outlook. It complained that it couldn't
find the server for the copies & then went back to normal.

So I guess if I want copies of outlook.pst (in case I screw something
up), I should rename the extension. Is that right?

--
Thank you in advance.
Phil

Ah. That would explain it. Outlook will continue to open any PST file in the
profile until you deliberately disconnect it. That's why moving or renaming
a PST file before disconnecting it creates problems.
--
Russ Valentine
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...
Sorry I didn't explain. I made the copies while Outlook was closed...just
by going to the folder, selecting the file, & pressing Ctrl+C, then
Ctrl+V. I did that as a backup when I was going to make changes that I
might want to reverse. I just didn't realize that Outlook would open all
*.pst files in that folder; I had thought it only opened "outlook.pst".
--
Thanks again,
Phil

Russ Valentine wrote:
No. You never rename, delete, or move a PST file that is connected to an
Outlook profile.
If you want to back up a PST file you make a copy of it. How you ended up
with more than one PST file connected to your profile remains
unexplained. It was end user error and the end user does not remember
what he did.

Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...

I have just noticed that if I right click "Contacts in Personal
Folders", there is an option to Delete it or to Remove it from "My
Contacts". Could you tell me the difference between these two options?

Chosing Delete should attempt to delete the folder. Chosing Remove
won't attempt to delete the folder but will remove it from the Nav Pane
"My Contacts".section.

If you choose the Folder List vew of the Nav Pane, how many folder sets
do you see?

OK. I may have found the answer. I had copies of outlook.pst in the
application data folder for Outlook that I called "copy of outlook.pst",
"copy 2 of outlook.pst" & 3rd. I thought Outlook only looked at the one
named Outlook.pst.

I deleted the copies & reopened Outlook. It complained that it couldn't
find the server for the copies & then went back to normal.

So I guess if I want copies of outlook.pst (in case I screw something
up), I should rename the extension. Is that right?

--
Thank you in advance.
Phil

"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...

I deleted the copies & reopened Outlook. It complained that it couldn't
find the server for the copies & then went back to normal.

Bad move. Next time, close them in Outlook first by right-clicking the root
and choosing Close. Then close Outlook. After that you can delete the actual
files.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Got it. Now I'll know for next time.
--
Thanks, Phil

Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
...

I deleted the copies & reopened Outlook. It complained that it
couldn't find the server for the copies & then went back to normal.

Bad move. Next time, close them in Outlook first by right-clicking the
root and choosing Close. Then close Outlook. After that you can delete
the actual files.