I've shot myself in the foot messing with my Contacts folders, so could use some clarification on how things work. Fortunately, I had a backup.
With Outlook2010, I have multiple accounts as follows:
a) The original POP3, currently has no Contacts folder. No idea where it went; Maybe I inadvertently deleted it with an errant key click. No longer plan to use this account and deleted it in Account Settings, but will keep all folders.
b) New IMAP acct. for iCloud syncing with Apple devices. Main email account now.
c) New name@icloud.com acct. introduced when installing iCloud, etc. Not using this, but believe I need it for iCloud to work. Contains no Contacts folder but don't care (I think). Deleted it once and all iCloud syncing stopped.
I did an import of contacts.pst from a week ago and it populated the empty Contacts folder in the bottom left navigation pane.
In spite of the loss of contacts and calendar data in Outlook, it's still intact in icloud.com and on the iPhone.
Questions:
What started this debacle was an attempt to create a new group email list but could not make the icloud contacts list (that's gone too) default since it's the only one that was populated yesterday. So, each time I added a new name to the group list, I had to manually select the icloud contacts list.
Thanks for the help!
With Outlook2010, I have multiple accounts as follows:
a) The original POP3, currently has no Contacts folder. No idea where it went; Maybe I inadvertently deleted it with an errant key click. No longer plan to use this account and deleted it in Account Settings, but will keep all folders.
b) New IMAP acct. for iCloud syncing with Apple devices. Main email account now.
c) New name@icloud.com acct. introduced when installing iCloud, etc. Not using this, but believe I need it for iCloud to work. Contains no Contacts folder but don't care (I think). Deleted it once and all iCloud syncing stopped.
I did an import of contacts.pst from a week ago and it populated the empty Contacts folder in the bottom left navigation pane.
In spite of the loss of contacts and calendar data in Outlook, it's still intact in icloud.com and on the iPhone.
Questions:
- Which account is the Contacts folder in the Outlook bottom left nav. pane associated with, or is it a composite or independent of specific accounts?
- Months ago I thought all accounts had their own unique Contacts folder; now one has none, and the one that does is empty while the one in the Nav. pane has data (from recent backup import). An hour ago, they were all empty. A puzzlement.
- Same questions as 1 & 2 but for calendar. That's gone too, but have an export and have not imported it back in yet. I assume it will go to the calendar in the nav. pane too.
- Let's say I leave the contacts and calendar data gone/missing in Outlook, then iCloud comes along for a sync-up. What takes priority, the null data overriding the good data on the cloud of vice versa?
- Is it simply the user's choice as to whether or not I associate an Address Book with my (single) Contacts list? They would end up being identical. For years, I have been operating with just Contacts and ignoring the Address Book concept. Is there an Advantage to using an Address Book? I often create group email lists, so need to pick names from Contacts or the Address Book.
- I assume to get my many folders from the old POP acct. into the new IMAP acct. I can just do a drag&drop, right?
What started this debacle was an attempt to create a new group email list but could not make the icloud contacts list (that's gone too) default since it's the only one that was populated yesterday. So, each time I added a new name to the group list, I had to manually select the icloud contacts list.
Thanks for the help!