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Half of the msg contacts are gone in WLM 9.0 beta by Henksbike on 10-13-2008 at 03:08 PM
Hi,
I installed Windows Live Messenger 9.0 beta today, after having used 8.5 in the past. It's a beta, I know, but this seems like a serious bug for beta:
Normally I have about 1100 contacts in my msg list, but as soon as I started using 9.0 the total amount of contacts have dropped to 640. The rest seems to be vanished miraculously.
Just for playing safe, I made a back-up of my contacts from 8.5, before installing 9.0. But wen I wanted to import this back-up in 9.0, I got the following message:
quote:
There are no new contacts in this file.
Microsoft provides a possible solution for this problem on their troubleshooting webpage. Unfortunately it doesn't solve my problem even though I did exactly what was explained
.What am I to do? For the record, I'm using:
Windows Live Messenger Beta
Version 2009 (Build 14.0.5027.908)
On Vista
Could someone explain to me what is going on and how I'm able to retrieve my contacts in WLM 9.0? I'm lost...
Thanks in advance for your help
RE: Half of the msg contacts are gone in WLM 9.0 beta by ChicaRacing on 10-13-2008 at 08:30 PM
It may be that they previously deleted you or you have them only as hotmail contacts and not as msn contacts, first at all take a look on hotmail's contact list and check them all to verify they are msn contacts, if so...
I think you can take a look here: "Contact list rebuilder"
I'm not quiet sure if will work for you, once it worked for me, you need to know it will login your account so, i highly recommend you login in mns any other account that you have added to your main account before run this website, that way you can see if anything weird happens, and after you run it change inmediatly your password on hotmail's website 
Wish you good luck!
RE: Half of the msg contacts are gone in WLM 9.0 beta by Sunshine on 10-13-2008 at 09:34 PM
This might be because non-instant messaging contacts are no longer displayed in Messenger. They will still be in Contacts in Windows Live Hotmail.
RE: Half of the msg contacts are gone in WLM 9.0 beta by Henksbike on 10-14-2008 at 09:44 AM
Yeah well,
Today I deleted all of the Windows Live beta stuff including Windows Live Messenger 9.0. It just doesn't work!
When I installed 8.5 again all my contact were back, so I just stick to that for a while...
Thanks for your replies anyway. But when someone finds a good solution for this problem, please post it!