How do I remove "Recipient Cache" from Contacts searches?


  1. ship69
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    How do I remove "Recipient Cache" from Contacts searches?


    Hello


    When I am searching my Contacts, how do I remove the Recipient Cache? ....FOREVER!


    I do NOT want to see my Recipient Cache. Not EVER.

    But I DO want AutoComplete to work when I am typing in my email addresses for emails.


    Please help! Because I feel like I have tried EVERYTHING.


    J

    PS I am using:
    - Windows 10 x64 "Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.388) - all the latest patches
    - Ms Office 365 "Version 2006 (Build 13.001.20384 Click-to-Run)


    EDIT:
    I have just runs some updates and I am now using:
    - Windows 10 x64 "Version 2004 (OS Build 19041.423) - all the latest patches
    - Ms Office 365 "Version 2007 (Build 13.029.20308 Click-to-Run)"
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  3. Berton
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    Hate to say it but most times autocomplete functions rely upon a cache for storing information they need to work with.
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  4. ship69
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    Berton said:
    Hate to say it but most times autocomplete functions rely upon a cache for storing information they need to work with.
    Yes, I am aware of that.

    I just don't want to SEE the stupid thing clogging up my search results. (Which I find deeply irritating. Why must Microsoft over-complicate everything. And why must it self-evidently fail to do usability trials on what it has done.)

    e.g. I have tried super-hard to create views that filter-out all the Recipient Cache garbage, but nothing I can do makes those views filter out the unwanted Recipient Cache.

    Outlook is truly awful.

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  6. ship69
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    This is hopeless.

    Okay I have now used MFCMape.exe to DELETE the Recipient Caceh by brute force.
    Let's hope I never see the damned thing ever again!

    [Aside: Why does Microsoft always like to over-complicate everything. Much though I hate Apple (for completely different reasons), Apple are very good at focusing on the User Experience and minimalism. LEARN FROM THEM!]

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  7. Sam Vimes
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    Where exactly are you seeing this because its not something I'm getting?
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