BlackBerry® Curve™

[bobh1945]

I accidentally downloaded over 300 contacts from my laptop into "Contacts" on the Blackberry. How do I delete the majority of them (but not all) without going through each one on the Blackberry which is tedious! Can i do it when I'm linked to my laptop?

[JSanders Resident Expert]

Which majority of then do you want to delete?

[bobh1945]

The ones on the Blackberry. But I do need to keep the ones that were on there originally before i added the ones from the laptop.

[JSanders Resident Expert]

Open your BlackBerry Address Book.

Press the Menu key > Options...

Do you have more than one Address Book listed... one named Default and any other?

[bobh1945]

Just the one called "default"

[JSanders Resident Expert]

I am afraid that the easiest method will be to delete them one-by-one, only because if they are all in the same Address Book, only you know which records you don't want on your BlackBerry and which you want only in Outlook.

IF you have a recent backup of your BlackBerry from before this sync, you could wipe your entire BlackBerry address book (delete them all) and then restore the previous backup to your handheld.

[bobh1945]

OK, point taken. I'll check to see if i did do a back up but I suspect not

Thanks for your help anyway.

[JSanders Resident Expert · Accepted solution]

If you have done so,... via the PC and your BlackBerry desktop software, it would likely be saved to your My Documents folder.