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Clive Hartland	26/02/2023 08:16:57
2929 forum posts 41 photos	Went to send an email this morning and went to the contacts, and lo and behold it is empty! Zilch, nothing, where have they gone? I do not have a copy. I am raking through bits of paper I save to find emaill addies as hest I can. I did not do anything there like deleting or anything like that, I have always thought that list would be safe. No sign of any virus , nothing.
Jim Young 2	26/02/2023 08:44:11
48 forum posts 6 photos	If you are using Outlook, a complete restart may recover them. It could be that the profile hasn’t completely loaded, from it’s ‘database’. Not the correct terms but it happens often on my work system. Worth a try!
Ady1	26/02/2023 10:18:34
6137 forum posts 893 photos	There will be a database somewhere, just do a netty search for others who had the issue Like firefox bookmarks disappearing, but it's usually in a .json file somewhere I also have a spare drive on my pooter and copy "important" stuff over periodically to save these moments from being too disasterous The lazy mans way to do it is copy your entire "desktop" over to the backup drive Edited By Ady1 on 26/02/2023 10:23:02
Brian Wood	26/02/2023 10:23:03
2742 forum posts 39 photos	Have you tried switching off and just restarting? Brian
Clive Hartland	26/02/2023 13:33:50
2929 forum posts 41 photos	Thanks all who replied, found a fix. I changed the sign in box to, 'not sign in' and the contacts list appeared again.

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