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wheres my contacts?

after upgrading custom roms by the guides only some of my contacts are synced. any fixes to force all to come over?

noone has had this bug happen to them?
I followed the sticky threads which were EXTREMELY informative... I thing that took the longest was waiting to relog into rapidshare to get files as it cuts you off without having an account.
All my contacts are still showing in outlook and it says updating 0/283 when it starts up but only like 20 carry over.

Before you run any upgrade, you MUST backup all your data! It's a rule for all kind of Windows OS product!
Because in the Instruction, there's 1 step: Delete you parnership and Outlook will ask you sonething like "All your persional information will be delete such as contact, calendar...etc". You should backup before run this step!
Upto now, I dont have any way to recorver data (both mobi device or PC) and I myself think there's no way to recover!

DiCham said:
Before you run any upgrade, you MUST backup all your data! It's a rule for all kind of Windows OS product!
Because in the Instruction, there's 1 step: Delete you parnership and Outlook will ask you sonething like "All your persional information will be delete such as contact, calendar...etc". You should backup before run this step!
Upto now, I dont have any way to recorver data (both mobi device or PC) and I myself think there's no way to recover!
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yea I know that. I build custom PC's and know the no-no's to computers not to mention I followed the how to's to the letter.
My question was now that I have everything all customized and I have resynced my info. all my contacts show in outlook HOWEVER only like 20 are actually syncing over to the new custom phone. The other 263 contacts or so aren't syncing like they used to.

Just FYI data doctor recovery can recover any deleted sim messages or contacts off of your sim card. Also I have used my data recovery programs to recover files off of my SD card and the Wizard internal flash memory.
So there is a way to do what you thought I was talkin about.... heheh I just don't wanna have to re-enter 263 contacts.

noone? I have resynced this thing a whole buncha times and still not all the contacts are going back to the phone.

I have deleted the .pim and it recreated it. Still nothing syncs over to the phone. I have read posts on other boards of people with the same problem. I can add new contacts and it will sync them over strangley enough. I exported the list out of outlook and imported it with no duplicates and with duplicates and both ways none of the contacts carried over.
Anyone ever had this problem? The .pst file is fine and my calendar syncs perfectly.

how to retrieve deleted contacts?

ive searched and cant find the answer to my question. anyway how can i retrieve deleted contacts? for some reason my contacts were deleted so i tried to sync with outlook and copy contacts from outlook but now those are gone too. please tell me there is a way to retrieve them.

Did you do a backup recently? If you have a backup you'll be okay. If not, well maybe someone else can help ya.

As far as I know once they are gone there's no way to bring they back. Next time get PPCPimBackup. Keep it on your storage card in a folder marked backup. It backs up contacts, calendars, and other info onto your memory card. so if you lose everything you can restore it immediately.

Actually if he did a sprite back up with the contacts on his phone he'll be okay. Otherwise you can go into xp & do a system restore. You'll be okay. Just slow down & be patient. I'm sure you either have a ppc back up with the cotacts or XP system restore enabled, right?

i did not do a backup recently. i usually just sync with outlook to have another copy of my contacts. i can try to xp system restore. did not think of that. thanks.

No problem. Yeah, it's a pain & I had to sys restore from losing them a few yrs ago w/ Wireless Sync. Just make sure your device doesn't overide your desktop after you sys.m restore or you'll come full circle.

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No problem. Yeah, it's a pain & I had to sys restore from losing them a few yrs ago w/ Wireless Sync. Just make sure your device doesn't overide your desktop after you sys.m restore or you'll come full circle.
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i did a system restore and my contacts do not come back.

check yr outlook's "deleted items", there could be a copy over there.

thanks everyone. i found a copy of the outlook archive on a flash drive i used to transfer info between work, school, and home. got most of my contacts back. now i guess my question is switch between phones for big parties to avoid losing or breaking my tilt so i copy my contacts to the sim. how do i get it to copy in the same format as in outlook? ex. in outlook the names are filed as first and last but when its copied to the sim its filed as last and first.

I usually find items deleted during synchronization in the Deleted Items folder.

Gosh! You've replied to a thread which has died seven years ago, dealing with active sync/outlook.
Wonder if the hint you've given will be any remedy here at all
(Android for Kaiser is next door )

F*!K, undelete contacts?

okay... so i have accidently deleted my contacts. Yes very stupid of me. i know there probably is nothing i can do but at this point im desprete. anybody know of a way to undelete contacts?

unless you had them backed up via some backup program (PIM backup, SPB Backup), or synced to your computer...I can't think of a way...

zakhir_n said:
unless you had them backed up via some backup program (PIM backup, SPB Backup), or synced to your computer...I can't think of a way...
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yea.. thats what i figured.. thanks though

If they were at some point synced with your PC & your talking about losing them in both places you can use XP system retore for the PC & then re-sync.
Otherwise there's not much you can do.

GSLEON3 said:
If they were at some point synced with your PC & your talking about losing them in both places you can use XP system retore for the PC & then re-sync.
Otherwise there's not much you can do.
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Good info that can be useful down the line.

GSLEON3 said:
If they were at some point synced with your PC & your talking about losing them in both places you can use XP system retore for the PC & then re-sync.
Otherwise there's not much you can do.
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System restore, isnt that just system files ?
I am pretty sure that no data at all is altered, it even says that no data is changed when you run it. Could be wrong though.

If your contacts were synced to an exchange server chances are that the IT department running it conducts regular backups and you could restore your contacts that way.

Basically, is there any copy of your contacts anywhere? Home computer? Laptop? Work server? A backup? Or perhaps someone stealing (touch wood) your data

System Restore works? It happened to me. . . LOL but that works for sure?

Try this in the future https://zyb.com/ . that might help

If you use Activesync with Outlook.
Look in your deleted items directory in Outlook on your PC/Laptop, you will find them there. Just select all and move them back to your contacts folder and when you next sync it will put them back on the device.
Same goes for anything like Outlook mail, Notes or Calendar items...

THANK YOU!!!! How do you select them all? I have 2007 version BTW so how?

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THANK YOU!!!! How do you select them all? I have 2007 version BTW so how?
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Usual windows, left- click the first then SHIFT-click the last or CONTROL-left-click to select seperate ones. Right click and move to Personal folders/Contacts.
BE CAREFUL here.. when you choose where to move them, select the small '+' symbol at the side of Personal Folders to open, DON'T click on the actual Personal folders as it will just push them straight into the root folder and cause you problems.
EDIT: when I said select 'all' I meant all the contacts...Don't just select everything including mail to put in the contacts directory. Contacts to contacts, mail to mail etc...

I just clicked edit>select all and just moved them all to contacts!! THANK YOU AGAIN YOU SAVED MY ASS!!!

System restore doesnt restore the content of pst files or mailboxes- that would be insane! Imagine doing a system restore and losing your appointments/emails/contacts that you have received since...
Next time sign up for a free mozy account and save your pim data etc to their secure online storage site.

ODD, it says you have to pay?

Oops that the my referral link for paid for accounts!
Have editted it to the free mozy service now.

unwired4 said:
Oops that the my referral link for paid for accounts!
Have editted it to the free mozy service now.
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Told ya!! Voodoo dolls!!! (private joke...)

contacts

I deleted the contacts from my sim and accidently deleted them from my phone. I had them all backed up to outlook, but when i synced it to outlook it erased them from outlook also. Is there a way to undo the delete? I have not made a sprite backup. Can anyone help me get these contacts back?
Also i checked the archived and deleted folders and got some of them back but not all.

Sounds like you had it set sync outlook to whats on you phone (witch on this case was nothing). I've done this before. Usually I edit and add contacts to my phone and have Outlook sync to my phone. BUT if you erase the contacts on you phone be sure to set it so you phone syncs to Outlook.
I'm afraid you are out of luck. You going to have to do it manualy unless someone knows another way, but I don't think so...
Sorry, I know how fustrating it is.

This actually hapened to me the other day.
I was able to recover my contacts from the Deleted Items folder in Outlook [2003]. Try looking there. This depends a lot on your Outlook deletion settings...
Just an idea.

strikeone said:
This actually hapened to me the other day.
I was able to recover my contacts from the Deleted Items folder in Outlook [2003]. Try looking there. This depends a lot on your Outlook deletion settings...
Just an idea.
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Yea I did but, my settings in outlook we're not correctly set to archive my contacts. Oh yea i had recently upgraded to the tilt from the blackjack II and had all my contacts stored on the blackjack II as well but when i plugged it into outlook it wiped them out too. I did upgrade to office 07 but still no luck.

Check your trash if you did not erase the trash bin your contacts will be in there...otherwise your contacts are gone

ryncppr said:
Check your trash if you did not erase the trash bin your contacts will be in there...otherwise your contacts are gone
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When u say trash bin are you talking about the deleted items folder?

Arghhh lost my contacts!!!!

Hi all,
Just recently i re-formatted my hard drive on my laptop and put vista back on it. Now i went to connect my Diamond to the laptop...it downloaded some updates etc and installed and also installed the windows mobile device center.
Anyways the phone synched but it didnt give me a chance to specify where and what i wanted synched etc. So anyways it seems like all my contacts that were on the phone have gone missing...which annoys me to no end as i had no back up. Usually i have my contacts backed up on my outlook email program.
Now it must have synched the contacts somewhere but for the life of me i cannot find where. So does anyone have any ideas as to where my contacts have gone??. They arent on the sim card as i usually keep them on the phone memory. Ive checked through the phone memory...checking through all the files and cant see where they have gone...they have obviously been taken off the phone when the stupid thing decided to synch itself before i had a chance to stop the synch. I dont know how it synched because it only installed the microsoft stuff after the first synch.
Anyways really hoping someone can help as i cannot afford to lose all these contacts that i have had on the phone...

I would say that it synced all your contacts from your laptop to the Diamond i.e. nothing. It is usual to sync this way when first connecting.

Spawn12 said:
Hi all,
Just recently i re-formatted my hard drive on my laptop and put vista back on it. Now i went to connect my Diamond to the laptop...it downloaded some updates etc and installed and also installed the windows mobile device center.
Anyways the phone synched but it didnt give me a chance to specify where and what i wanted synched etc. So anyways it seems like all my contacts that were on the phone have gone missing...which annoys me to no end as i had no back up. Usually i have my contacts backed up on my outlook email program.
Now it must have synched the contacts somewhere but for the life of me i cannot find where. So does anyone have any ideas as to where my contacts have gone??. They arent on the sim card as i usually keep them on the phone memory. Ive checked through the phone memory...checking through all the files and cant see where they have gone...they have obviously been taken off the phone when the stupid thing decided to synch itself before i had a chance to stop the synch. I dont know how it synched because it only installed the microsoft stuff after the first synch.
Anyways really hoping someone can help as i cannot afford to lose all these contacts that i have had on the phone...
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Did you never synct your contacts with any Gmail or MSN account, or did you never create a backup of your system with SPB backup, if you have then there must be a way to import them again in Outlook and sync them to your phone, an other way maid be easy recovery, with this program you maid be able to find your .pst back at your harddsik important is that you install as less as possible during the time you didn't found it back cause everytime you install something at your pc the possebillity to overwrite the .pst files gets bigger.
Sucses
Willem

Thanks for all your help...ive managed to get all my contacts back. Good thing i had them on my nokia 8600 Luna so i just copied them from there to my laptop then onto my Diamond.

I would say "it a good lesson to have always a backup of your contacts"
Willem

Wilsas said:
I would say "it a good lesson to have always a backup of your contacts"
Willem
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LOL yeh will have to make a backup of my contacts later tonight.

i do a PIM Backup most days
dont want to loose a days work!

I use this;
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en
It works really well and makes sure you never loose contacts!!
Will

Spawn12 said:
Hi all,
Just recently i re-formatted my hard drive on my laptop and put vista back on it. Now i went to connect my Diamond to the laptop...it downloaded some updates etc and installed and also installed the windows mobile device center.
Anyways the phone synched but it didnt give me a chance to specify where and what i wanted synched etc. So anyways it seems like all my contacts that were on the phone have gone missing...which annoys me to no end as i had no back up. Usually i have my contacts backed up on my outlook email program.
Now it must have synched the contacts somewhere but for the life of me i cannot find where. So does anyone have any ideas as to where my contacts have gone??. They arent on the sim card as i usually keep them on the phone memory. Ive checked through the phone memory...checking through all the files and cant see where they have gone...they have obviously been taken off the phone when the stupid thing decided to synch itself before i had a chance to stop the synch. I dont know how it synched because it only installed the microsoft stuff after the first synch.
Anyways really hoping someone can help as i cannot afford to lose all these contacts that i have had on the phone...
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I did something very similar and learnt my lesson the hard way. Good news was I recovered quite a few contacts from old phone and even better news is that I've cut down my contact list to people I actually contact, rather just accumulate!