How to remove the windows live messenger contacts from my contacts list? I want to hide contacts from MSN Live in my Contact?
Any way?
dodadent said:
How to remove the windows live messenger contacts from my contacts list? I want to hide contacts from MSN Live in my Contact?
Any way?
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I like to know that to, my contact list is an absolute mess right now.. everyone I ever send a mail appears in my contacts list.. a great feature microsoft... NOT!
Any other way, other than deleting them manually?
I just installed Orwells crossbow, and ran MS Live. The contact list is now a mess :-(
rvbcrs said:
I like to know that to, my contact list is an absolute mess right now.. everyone I ever send a mail appears in my contacts list.. a great feature microsoft... NOT!
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+1..........
well, you do have two options.
when you have duplicates you have to enter their hotmail address into the corresponding IM field.
If you dont want to show them it is best to put them all together in a group and then to setup a filter to not show this group. This wont prevent the contacts from being synched
BIG NOTE:
Do not remove manually
It will remove them from your global contact list (i.e when you sign in on your pc your list is empty!)
Still no solution for this really annoying issue?
remove msn contacts
just wondering the same....
it's really a very very horrible feature....if i filter by groups the upper index don't work and neither the search box....
I'm working on a similar problem. The first time I ran it it put all of my Live messenger contacts as separate contacts on my address book. I had to remove them multiple times and from multiple places to keep them from showing up. I have since put all of my contacts email addresses into the IM field of their address book entry. Unfortunately my Live Messenger is now blank and I've yet to be able to figure out a way to get them back over. I THINK that if I had a Live mail account I could make it work by importing all of my contacts into Live mail using the Outlook Connector. Unfortunately I set up my passport account years ago with my ISP email. You would think that MS would have a way to add live mail to an existing passport but apparently you can't. . Now my MSDN account as well as my Xbox Live accounts, neither of which can be changed I don't believe. Rather leaves me in a bind, unfortunately. I have put in emails to MS support trying to find a way to import the contacts into Live Messenger but, unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be possible.
the work around:
use an companyname i.e. Live Messenger for these Live Messenger "contacts"... in this way you can sort on company name....
it is not the best solution but it is a bit ordened then
How about Unchecking the "Contact And Messenger" from the
Options/Sync options.
contacts
cyberdrakula said:
How about Unchecking the "Contact And Messenger" from the
Options/Sync options.
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nop....when u try to sing-in for the first time (also with the sync option uncheked) a pop-up appears telling you that the msn conctacs will be imported to the phone contacts...if u cancel, you can not sign in....
Stupid Feature!
This is the most annoying feature of the new Live Messenger. How come can MS think that people would like to merge their MSN contact list with the Phone contact list.
It is a mess!
I suggest using another messenger variant like IM+ or Agile.
Best regards,
Emre
Octro Talk is also very promising; but it sure would be nice to use the otherwise very well done Windows Live Messenger... it's hard to believe that Microsoft will leave that "feature" to be mandatory for long in a product that quite some work must have went into and that becomes a hassle to use because of the messed up contact list. I even lost some data due to the clunky handling of the Live and Exchange contacts combination...
Avatar28 said:
I'm working on a similar problem. The first time I ran it it put all of my Live messenger contacts as separate contacts on my address book. I had to remove them multiple times and from multiple places to keep them from showing up. I have since put all of my contacts email addresses into the IM field of their address book entry. Unfortunately my Live Messenger is now blank and I've yet to be able to figure out a way to get them back over. I THINK that if I had a Live mail account I could make it work by importing all of my contacts into Live mail using the Outlook Connector. Unfortunately I set up my passport account years ago with my ISP email. You would think that MS would have a way to add live mail to an existing passport but apparently you can't. . Now my MSDN account as well as my Xbox Live accounts, neither of which can be changed I don't believe. Rather leaves me in a bind, unfortunately. I have put in emails to MS support trying to find a way to import the contacts into Live Messenger but, unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be possible.
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i edit my Live messenger contacts as separate group when i lunch my Live Messenger my contacts is all blank.
how to import back my contact to Live Messenger ?
i have a question relating to this topic....
how do i get my hotmail contacts to register in messenger live without adding them manually? i have about 600 email addresses and most of them use live. i refuse to do the transfer manually.
Agreed
fastguy said:
This is the most annoying feature of the new Live Messenger. How come can MS think that people would like to merge their MSN contact list with the Phone contact list.
It is a mess!
I suggest using another messenger variant like IM+ or Agile.
Best regards,
Emre
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Its the worst feature in windows live. I better use IM+ to enter MSN messenger. I hate that all my hotmail contacts are copied into my phone contacts. I tried to syn my outlook contact with my hotmail contacts but at the end i ended having duplicate contacts.
My advice dont sign in using Live Messger, find an alternative.
idea
I was trying some things with .net 2 but no success. MSN stores contacts on the outlook repository so there is no way to delete those entrys and not delete the MSN contact.
I think de only way to solve this is to find a way to start de contacts screen with a custom filter. For example not showing contacts that first name equals to empty. That will do the trick for me.
With custom ListViews or ChooseContactDialog of .Net 2 you can make some filters, but i can´t find a way to make an exact replica of the original contacts screen and all of its functionality....
So there must be a way to start de original contacts application with a custom filter that doesn't show contacts having first name as empty.
any guru?
workarround
not a solution but a way to use live messenger and then restore contacts:
- log in to live messenger
- enjoy it
- sign out
- go to Windows Live
- go to options
- click on switch account
done...msn contacts are remove from outlook contacts
Please give more info
Dear Eljoe,
Can you give a little more info about switching the account to remove contacts imported from MSN to my Exchange/Outlook address book ?
Could you give a little more info on every step why and what you do exactly ?
If you really "tackled" this problem, it should be put in the WIKI for all devices !
Please enlighten us all a little more
Mike
Once upon a time (before having my kick ass Hero...) I had an exchange email address set up with my gmail fwd'ed to that exchange server (mail2web).
Well, I am curious if anyone has a ny suggestions on how I should go about taking all my contacts I had sync'd through the exchange server, and adding them to my gmail account, or whatever else may be a good solution? I only get spam on my mail2web email address anymore. Just want to take it off my phone.
Hope this makes sense to everyone... And if need be, I have a rooted hero w/ the unofficial modaco (obelisk79) updated rom.
Once again, thanks in advance, everyone!
jtmercutio said:
Well, I am curious if anyone has a ny suggestions on how I should go about taking all my contacts I had sync'd through the exchange server, and adding them to my gmail account, or whatever else may be a good solution? I only get spam on my mail2web email address anymore. Just want to take it off my phone.
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In Outlook:
go to File, Import/Export
choose "Export to a file"
choose "Comma Separated Values (Windows)"
in the "Select folder to export from:" screen, choose Contacts
choose a path to save the csv file
From there, go into your GMail contacts and select "Import".. feed it the CSV file and you're all set
The above is good for a one-time sync. I know there are programs out there that will keep the two synced up, but I've only used one (and it was a while ago and had some issues), so I don't want to recommend any...
Anyone else have good experience with a contacts sync app between Outlook and GMail and want to share?
If your Exchange contacts have phone numbers, be careful. I had this issue syncing my friends Verizon Voyager contacts to Gmail. The phone numbers would show up in the Notes field in Gmail because Gmail did not like the table structure. Gmail might work well with an exchange.csv but this wasn't the case with me and my friends Verizon contacts. When you get your *.csv file, you may have to modify the tables in Excel. Create a sample contact list in Gmail with phone numbers and all the neccessary data, then export the Gmail contacts to csv using exchange format. The table structure between the Exchange server and Gmail may be slightly different. Again, in Excel make sure that your exchange.csv table names are similar to your exported gmail.csv file. Once the exchange.csv uses table names that Gmail likes, you will easily be able to import it to Gmail and all the correct data will be in it's proper place. It is okay to delete empty tables.
I HATE the AT&T implementation. Is there a way to get the AOSP Android 2.1 address book instead? I like that the included one lets you create groups, but I came from another android phone and all my contacts are in google. Unless I missed something gobsmacking obvious, you can't move a google contact into AT&T's address book. Any help for me?
I had never used att address book until my captivate. I synced Google contacts before opening att address book. When I did I added all my Google contacts.
I'm all for multiple free contact backup options.
Sent from my Samsung Captivate via XDA app
The thing is I couldn't figure out how to move a contact from google to att. I had to export my contacts from gmail and import them via the address book website. Kludgy IMHO
you synced your google account to your phone through settings right?
The contacts are on the phone. BUT looking at them in groups view is what I am talking about. You can't add the Google Contacts to Family/Friends/Work only the ones in unassigned can be put into groups. In order to get my google contacts to be assignable I had to export them from Gmail in CSV format then import them on the address book website. This minor annoyance sounds a whole lot more major now
There is a really simple Email client app that seems to have appeared after rooting. How would one go about using Google Contacts to launch an email with this little app, all pre-addressed to the contact and ready to go?
When I attempted to let the Barnes and Nobles "Contacts" app sync with Google Contacts, it seems to have wanted to give B&N more access to my contacts that I would like. It also doesn't really look like B&N's contacts app really wants to play with anything else.
Unfortunately, what you are looking for is not working on the NC as of this writing. The only contacts, of any kind that can be sync'd over (and not using a 3rd party solution like Moxier or Touchdown) are gmail contacts. And those contacts just get dumped into the NC's contact apps, which is quite useless as the contacts just sit there. There is no way to pull a contact into into any email program, even gmail.
I see. Obviously everyone is pushing for all of us to use THEIR web-based services. I'm a bit surprised there isn't an independent address book app out there that can both sync with Google Contacts, and be capable of launching the default on-board email client with the recipient selected from the sync'd contacts.
guys
I have maybe 10 contacts sync'd from my gmail but most are from exchange. When I go into contacts and try to edit one of the exchange contacts (have mailwise), it still says I can only save it into gmail. When I click on linked contact in the attached screenshot, it clearly says exchange
How do i fix this? I want to maintain all contacts in exchange and also save any edits directly there
When I go into contacts -> settings, under default account for new contacts, it only shows my gmail and it's checked
Have you ever been able to fix this problem? I have the same issue on several Android devices from different brands; none of the native Contacts apps is able to add new exchange contacts.
The only app that can add a new contact is "Contact Editor free" that I have downloaded from the Google Play store.