Contacts Folder

Caledon Ken said:

Interesting on phone and voice dialing. Each phone must be different. I will give my wife's android a try. At least on my phone I say call John Doe Work or John Doe Mobile and it calls that number.

The problem is that the phone contact list is the source for the voice prompt. If you ask to call someone, it will look for the phone number on the appropriate line in the contact. If there are multiple phone numbers and/or notes have been incorporated into that line in the contact file, where only a single phone number belongs, it cant dial the number.

Caledon Ken said:

By using web address book, gmail in your case, my address list is pushed to phone, tablet and Desktop. No importing required and if I want a special backup I can export a file. A change anywhere and they all sync up. (and they all have passwords)

In my case, when things sync, it creates duplicates on duplicates. For example, I created 10 separate contacts for a particular company, but after involuntary gmail syncing, I now have 16, and they are a mixed up mess. I went into one of them and the "Connected Via" category (where they were imported from) has 6 icons; 2 phone icons, and 4 gmail icons. I only have one phone and 2 gmail accounts, so hard to figure.

Caledon Ken said:

One thing I found in some cases where you want to paste a password and right clicking doesn't work, CRTL-V sometimes does.

That was my problem. It doesn't allow CRTL-V, so I had to blindly try to enter a 20 character password. Thoughtless design. Little things like that make a big difference sometimes.

So for now the conversation changes, and I hope you will permit me.

I found a third party PC contact manager. So, right now, If someone could suggest an app that can export a .csv type phone list with all the details in each contact (it seems that some export with some information omitted, like notes), that would be appreciated

Hi f14tomcat,

As I mentioned in my OP

kitpzyxmsir said:

I cant find my contacts folder. Well, that's not exactly true, I do have a folder at "C:\Users\xxx\Contacts", but it's just a regular folder. Seems to have happened around the time I installed the creators update

This is what it now looks like

Attachment 137903

f14tomcat said:

Contacts folder does exist in your User Folder. 15063 AU. I just added a bogus contact and exported it as a .cvs. Is this what you're looking for?

Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (x64) Build 15063.332 (RS2) release 170317-1834.

Do you have the creators update?

@kitpzyxmsir
If you right click on the Contacts folder, is the Target in Properties/Location properly defined?

What happens if you create a contact in your folder?

Edwin said:

@kitpzyxmsir
If you right click on the Contacts folder, is the Target in Properties/Location properly defined?

What happens if you create a contact in your folder?

"C:\Users\xxx\Contacts".

Do you mean if I move a contact(s) to the folder, as in a file from a .vcf folder? It will reside there like any other file. I can click on an individual contact file, and the profile will open to exhibit the information. At this moment, it is nothing more in structure than a generic folder.

If you guys have the latest updates as I do, then I really stumped here? I'm pretty sure it happened around the time of the creators update, but it could be a coincidence, I suppose.

kitpzyxmsir said:

If you guys have the latest updates as I do, then I really stumped here? I'm pretty sure it happened around the time of the creators update, but it could be a coincidence, I suppose.

More than likely, your Contacts folder shell extension became de-registered during an upgrade process (or rather, didn't survive a migration to a new version). In theory, if you knew what DLL it was that provided that functionality, you could just re-register the shell extension. But, I don't know what it might be, and a google search did not return any immediately visible results.

The only other option might be to do a Reset, which should re-register everything.

Yes, that looks like it might be it.
@kitpzyxmsir - You might try running this command from an elevated command prompt (cmd - run as administrator)

Code:

regsvr32 /i "C:\Windows\System32\Common Files\System\wab32.dll"