hi all

i have installed MSN/Windows (Live) Messenger , and im facing aproblem which is , ma contacts wher sort in some groups , but one aday thes groups become empty and all of ma contacts are in one group which is others , now i dont know whom im talkin to from ma contact list , so if any can give me hand restore ma contact list as it was beffore " groups " not all in one group " others" , i have tryed to use sorting contact by status but its not function , so please help me

thanks alot

In the Windows Live Messenger menu, click in Actions then add your group in the list. After this, with a right click in each contact select Group options and Move in..., then select the destination group

If all your contacts were moved to "others" it probably just indicates that Messenger couldn't retrieve your group names from the server. In most cases this will simply fix itself after a while (and after you've signed out and back in) when Messenger can syncronize itself properly again with the servers.


However, it might be possible that as soon as you start to alter anything to your contactlist while all your contacts are in the "others" group, like AngelDevil suggested, that Messenger tries to update the contactlist on the server (which was maybe still good) with the one you now have on Messenger (which is wrong).
And as such you wont have any chance anymore that it would fix by itself.... (this is just a guess though, but it is based upon what I've also experienced before where it was fixed automatically after a while. And on another occasion where I manually moved 1 contact, and the rest was not fixed automatically, even after a long while).



So I would suggest to do absolutely nothing at all, and just wait a couple of days! Don't attempt to manually fix it... Only when it didn't fixed itself after a couple of days and after many sign-ins and outs and Messenger restarts, I would start to manually put everything back as it was....

Happened to me before, didnt fix. I had to rearrange all my 400contacts myself .