Where do Outlook's auto-complete suggestions come from?

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Thanks!! Every time I typed a colleague's name in the Send: field, it would choose their home email address first, and I couldn't find these in any of my address books. I googled for "******* outlook" but that didn't help.

Your tip about the "nickname list" and the DELETE button saved my monitor from an untimely end!

The simplest way to solve the "auto-complete" issue is: disconnect the PC from the Internet, open Outlook (I have tested it on Outlook 2003), send an email to all people in Contacts (you may send Bcc), the message will be placed in Outbox folder, close Outlook, open again and go to Outbox, delete the message, you just got your "auto-complete" feature back and working. Regards

Very concise, informative article. I installed the trial version of of Ingressor v3 Desktop on my Win2kPro desktop and it says it cannot find ther .NK2 file in:
%UserProfile%\Applications\Microsoft\Outlook. I checked the folder security settings and loked myself and it is not there; so... how do I get my NK2 file back?

Files in folder are:
MS Outlook Internet Settings.FAV
MS Outlook Internet Settings.Nick (Huh?)
MS Outlook Internet Settings.RWZ
MSIN2183.RHC
MSIN4503.RHC
outcmd.dat
outlPrnt

Thank you for any input. Tom

Thank you for the article it was very helpfull. My problem was that I wanted the autocomplete option to always bring up the contacts first and then my ldap address book second. However, I found out that autocomplete brings up the last email you used to send an email to. IE if I used a yahoo.com account and then a slu.edu account for the same person it would remember the last one I used first and then the yahoo email address second. I could not get them to reorder.

Brian

Why would all of the AutoComplete suggestions disappear?

It varies, but the most common situation is logging in to windows as a different user, or selecting a different profile when starting Outlook.

I found that if you use Microsoft's suggestion to "reset" the nickname file by renaming it, my Outlook failed to create a new one! The nicknames would only be stored in cache and thus be lost everytime I closed Outlook.

This article led me to the Default.NK2 Name Cashe file! Yippeeeee!

Hi

A free tool to read edit and export your list to a CSV files is nk2csv. You can find it here http://www.epute.com/nk2csv/

Thanks
Andy

I have a problem that many others have listed that I have not seen an answer to. Perhaps there is not one. The nickname list cache disappears each time I close and reopen Outlook. Then I have to start all over repopulating the nickname list.

I understand one problem can be loggin on as a different user. But I am not logging on as a different user, etc. Any suggestions?

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