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Posted by robr on October 6, 2007, 3:38 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Do you happen to use Windows Live Messenger as an IM client. When they
> started this, they thought everyone would want to have all their IM contacts
> in contacts. If it couldn't figure out that an IM contact was already listed
> as a regular contact it created you a new entry. If you are using Windows
> Live Messenger (maybe even MSN IM, I don't recall) and you recognize these
> new contacts as IM contacts, this may be what happened. Not a whole lot you
> can do AFAIK, but be careful deleting the records out of Outlook, as it
> deletes them out of your IM contact list as well.
>
> Answer back if it seems to be IM contacts related, and maybe someone else
> has a solution I am not aware of.
>
> --
> Sven
>
>
> > Yeah, I wish that was the issue, but it's not. My phone now has
> > contacts that
> > are JUST email addresses that are not stored in my contacts in
> > Outlook.
> > Many of them are email addresses for things like newsletters and
> > forums.
> > Stuff that's absolutely not a contact. Very odd.
>
> > wrote:
> >> I'm not sure whether my solution (below) is the problem you are
> >> experiencing
> >> but here it is anyway.
>
> >> When I first sync'd my WM6 updated PPC phone, and selected Contacts, it
> >> first displayed not only the Contact Name but also the email address in
> >> the
> >> list of names. I normally do not like to see the email address in this
> >> list
> >> when it is in Name order, however, there is an option to remove it.
>
> >> In Contacts, tap on Menu > Options then tap on the "Show contact names
> >> only"
> >> checkbox to tick it then tap on the "ok" button at the top right of
> >> screen.
> >> Your list of contacts in Name order should now only display the name and
> >> not
> >> the email address. Of course, when you open the contact details, the
> >> email
> >> address will be there.
>
> >> Regards,
> >> Neville Lang
>
>
>
> >> >I just bought a new 8925 phone (HTC Kaiser) from ATT. I previously
> >> > used an 8525 running WM6 and well and did not experience this
> >> > problem. I sync directly with Exchange over GPRS. When I set this up
> >> > on the 8925, it added not only my normal contacts that I had set up in
> >> > Outlook 2007 to my phone contacts, but also it appears to have parsed
> >> > emails and added email addresses for various To/From fields to my
> >> > contacts on my phone. WHY?!?!? How do I get rid of those? Thanks!
No, brand new phone, nothing else installed. The very first thing I
did (After a hard reset) was to sync to exchange. I did another hard
reset
and tried again and the same thing happened the second time.
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