All my group members have disappeared. Is there a way to retrieve them?

Anonymous
2015-12-18T17:33:45+00:00

I have a large email database. I have many groups which HAD specific members in them.  All the individual names have disappeared from ALL of my groups.  How can they be restored without starting over and entering them again?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-02-02T06:59:23+00:00

    Great that yours reappeared but mine have been missing for a week now and I have had to start recreating them all  ..days of work.

    Not happy!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-02T06:39:53+00:00

    I have a large email database. I have many groups which HAD specific members in them.  All the individual names have disappeared from ALL of my groups.  How can they be restored without starting over and entering them again?

    Just happened to me today, Feb 1st, 2016. Missing contacts from the groups. Even more weird, I see Skype contacts now of the people that are my email contacts. I never used those Skype contacts but somehow they got into my groups while the email contacts disappeared. Really need the Groups back as they were before, for business.

    Hope someone from Microsoft will notice the large numbers of similar complains about contacts missing from Groups and will address this major issue. Thanks in advance for any advise!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-02T06:31:48+00:00

    After a few days, all my groups are now back.  All the folks who were in each group are where they should be.

    This is hopeful! It just happened to me today (Feb 1st, 2016) and really need the groups back for my business.

    Thx!

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-29T23:10:59+00:00

    Thanks  Brian

    I  need the folders to send out a newsletter in a few days and have groups of students too so I  hope someone can help

    thanks again

    Christine

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  5. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,920 Reputation points
    2016-01-29T17:57:30+00:00

    I have told the Outlook.com team about this. Hopefully one of the members of that team will post here with a private message for you so you can give them information about how to contact you.

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