Hello,
so the duplicates have all the send email only function available? Have you
Contacts -> Filter Contacts -> "Messenger contacts only" checked?
Or am I confused and you mean something completely different?
Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo
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"Jason Dunn" <www.jasondunn.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>I did a bit of searching here, and using search engines, but I can't seem
>to find a solution: is there any easy way to remove duplicate contacts in
>Windows Live Messenger 8.5? I'm using the 8.5.1238.0601 build, and when I
>upgrade from 8.1 it was a COMPLETE disaster because it decided to be
>"helpful" by synchronizing all of my Outlook contacts. So now I have 100's
>of contacts that have on IM information, and 100's of duplicated contacts -
>most of them showing up as offline, like they're phantom contacts, even
>though they have exactly the same email address. I've managed to "hide"
>them away by grouping all my offline contacts together, but it's not a real
>solution.
>
> I can't begin to express my frustration with Live Messenger for doing this
> to my information - I realize it's a beta product, but mangling someone's
> contact list is the #1 thing an application like this should never do.
>
> Is there any way to fix this other than me wasting hours by going through
> my contact list and manually deleting all the junk? Sorry for sounding
> grumpy, but this issue really ticks me off. :-)
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