MPE generates contacts with category "System group: ...

[mjcoon]

After a synchronisation with MPE I find that my contacts in Outlook 2002 have a new category "System group: My contacts". (I have seen this before but did not report it.)

I have discovered how to remove this spurious category that adds nothing to the utility of my contacts list!

But I would prefer not to generate it in the first place.

Is there a way of suppressing generation of this category?

Mike.

[OlleB]

Hi Mike,

How did you remove the category?
In my case it is worse as all my categories disappeared and replaced by "My contact"

[mjcoon]

[quote="OlleB"]Hi Mike,

How did you remove the category?
In my case it is worse as all my categories disappeared and replaced by "My contact".[/quote]

Ah, if you haven't got a back-up I don't know how you get them back!

In my case I just display all items by category and select those under the spurious one. Then right-click the collection and choose categories. (So far, so obvious!) Then I un-tick the spurious category in the list, leaving the others (which will mostly be greyed-out because they do not apply to all entries) alone. Then, amazingly, doing "OK" just removes the unwanted category leaving others untouched!

Note all that is under Outlook 2002, as I said.

Mike.

[spile]

I've seen this for new contacts and I would love to know where the category is created. Manually deleting it works but I would like to know how it got there. I wonder if it is created when a contact is created on the phone and google creates it rather than MPE?

[mjcoon]

[quote="OlleB"]In my case it is worse as all my categories disappeared and replaced by "My contact"[/quote]

Now I've looked at contacts in Google (which I rarely do) I see that the full set has acquired an equally pointless "My contact" category too!

Mike.

[FJ]

This group is created automatically throught Google. MyPhoneExplorer just syncs the contacts - as complete as possible - with Outlook.