Unwanted folder in "My Contacts" box

All of a sudden, the e-mail folder "For Follow Up" has installed itself in
the "My Contacts" box in the Contacts view. If I right-click on it, I can
delete it (which I don't want to,) but I am not offered the option to remove
it from "My Contacts."

How did it get there, and how can I get rid of it? I want it to reside in
the "Favorite Folders" box of the Mail view only.

lesviator
Wed Jul 16 13:37:03 PDT 2008

It's Outlook 2003.

Right-clicking the folder in its default view shows the option of removing
it from FAVORITE FOLDERS but that doesn't affect its existence in the
Contacts view. It remains there.

I didn't do anything to create this problem. The only thing that may have
had something to do with it is that I've just installed Skype in this
computer.


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

> Did you want to guess your Outlook version?
> If you R click the "For Follow up" Folder in its default view (i.e., Search
> Folders in Mail view) what are your options there?
> "All of a sudden" leaves out the steps you used to create this problem.
> Those would be helpful. Outlook doesn't do this by itself.
> --
> Russ Valentine
> [MVP-Outlook]
> "lesviator" <lesviator@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E489382D-6A8C-4F70-81B4-8D9CC5200105@microsoft.com...
> > All of a sudden, the e-mail folder "For Follow Up" has installed itself in
> > the "My Contacts" box in the Contacts view. If I right-click on it, I can
> > delete it (which I don't want to,) but I am not offered the option to
> > remove
> > it from "My Contacts."
> >
> > How did it get there, and how can I get rid of it? I want it to reside in
> > the "Favorite Folders" box of the Mail view only.
>

Brian
Thu Jul 17 06:53:46 PDT 2008

lesviator <lesviator@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Right-clicking the folder in its default view shows the option of
> removing it from FAVORITE FOLDERS but that doesn't affect its
> existence in the Contacts view. It remains there.
>
> I didn't do anything to create this problem. The only thing that may
> have had something to do with it is that I've just installed Skype in
> this computer.

Somehow, the For Follow Up folder (which isn't a real folder, but a Search
folder) has been confugured to contain contact items. In your Mail vew,
open the Search Folders folder and delete the For Follow Up folder. You can
always recreate it.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]