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LOST CONTACTS - they just disappeared????
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1348674"><p>Outlook is a server-based (usually from an employer) solution that handles contacts, calendars and e-mail. IOW, everything you may be seeing on your iPhone actually comes from your employer's server.</p><p></p><p>Thus, the moment you delete the Outlook account from your iPhone, everything tied to Outlook is withdrawn. It's probably not gone, it's probably sitting on your employer's server still -- waiting for you to add the account to another (or the same) device.</p><p></p><p>Setting up an Outlook account is a bit more complicated than setting up a typical email account, but your employer should be able to provide instructions (and you obviously know the account and password since you gave that to the Apple Store employees for them to help you set it up). So my guess is that if you re-open your Outlook account, your contacts and calendars (as well as e-mail) will "magically" reappear after a short delay.</p><p></p><p>If that's the case, and you don't want to be tied to Outlook for the rest of your life, then what you'll want to do next is CONVERT your calendars, contacts and e-mail to a format that lets you store them in iCal (or Google Calendar if you prefer), Address Book and Mail. Once that's done, synching your iPhone with your Mac will keep everything on both devices and you can let go of the Outlook account.</p><p></p><p>As I say, this is my guess based on others' experience with corporate Outlook accounts. I'm not sure that this will work but if you can find the password/login information it will be a quick way to find out if I'm right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1348674"] Outlook is a server-based (usually from an employer) solution that handles contacts, calendars and e-mail. IOW, everything you may be seeing on your iPhone actually comes from your employer's server. Thus, the moment you delete the Outlook account from your iPhone, everything tied to Outlook is withdrawn. It's probably not gone, it's probably sitting on your employer's server still -- waiting for you to add the account to another (or the same) device. Setting up an Outlook account is a bit more complicated than setting up a typical email account, but your employer should be able to provide instructions (and you obviously know the account and password since you gave that to the Apple Store employees for them to help you set it up). So my guess is that if you re-open your Outlook account, your contacts and calendars (as well as e-mail) will "magically" reappear after a short delay. If that's the case, and you don't want to be tied to Outlook for the rest of your life, then what you'll want to do next is CONVERT your calendars, contacts and e-mail to a format that lets you store them in iCal (or Google Calendar if you prefer), Address Book and Mail. Once that's done, synching your iPhone with your Mac will keep everything on both devices and you can let go of the Outlook account. As I say, this is my guess based on others' experience with corporate Outlook accounts. I'm not sure that this will work but if you can find the password/login information it will be a quick way to find out if I'm right. [/QUOTE]
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