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I don't know what to do anymore, apart from migrating to google: ONE (and only one so far) of my contacts keep duplicating itself in my people list. No matter how many times I delete it, and where: I tried to delete both online on people.live.com and on the W10 people app. Multiple copies keep reappearing after a few hours.
This has now reached intolerable levels of frustration and I will move everything to google if a reasonable solution is not provided by MS quickly.
Attached a screenshot:
Thank you
maTTeo
Organizing and accessing contact information in Outlook.com
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Contacts seem to stop reappearing at the moment. I'm also avoiding to log in to my Windows 10 PC with Outlook.com account so far.
Oh no, after a week of 'stability' the most of my contacts disappeared, only six of 80 left.
Please notice I didn't sync these contacts last week.
I have the same problem.
Periodically (once a week or something like that) some dead contacts reappear in my Outlook.com contacts.
I tried to delete them by various means - via Outlook.com web interface, via Windows 10 phone contacts app, via desktop Outlook app - no luck. I even remove them from dumpster (via 'restore deleted items' menu), but they still live somewhere on the server and reappear again and again. Some of these reappeared contacts are empty entries, some of them named 'Q' (just one letter) without contact details inside.
Interesting fact: when I'm trying to import contacts from Outlook.com to Gmail, Gmail (via third party provider ShuttleCloud) pulls 262 contacts from my Outlook.com account, though only 77 are visible in Outlook.com, desktop Outlook app and People app on Windows 10 phone. Most of these 262 contacts are empty entries or entries named 'Q' (just one letter).
Finnaly, a week ago I decided to setup my Windows 10 phone with a new dummy Microsoft account to avoid syncrhonization of the broken contact list and added two additional accounts - a Gmail for contacts sync and my old Outlook.com for email only. Contacts seem to stop reappearing at the moment. I'm also avoiding to log in to my Windows 10 PC with Outlook.com account so far.
I also have the same issue. Creation thousands of clone contacts and linking randomly between them causing the creation of absolute chaos in contacts list. I will also leave the OS as soon as possible if we won't get any reasonable answer from MS in reasonable time.
Wow... I discovered that my last answer has been deleted and that e-mail notifications for this thread have been deactivated... Very strange. No comment.
How has it been for you recently? Less problems?
I still seem to have no duplication so things are looking better for me.
Hube
Just to update, duplicates have appeared again, as well as contacts back after deletion.
So nothing is solved yet for me.
maTTeo
The single contact came back for me also but it's not duplicated itself which is somewhat of an improvement...