HT1692 When I delete a contact from my address book, why does their name appear when I'm scrolling through names to text?

I have deleted several contacts from my address book. However, when I type "d" for example to select a contact for text messaging, the deleted contacts still appear in the list! How can I solve this?

This has to do with this information being held in a separate cache in the phone. There are two choices here. You can restore the phone as a new device, which is the only true way to remove this cache; or you can wait until the information is overwritten in the cache, and no one has been able to describe how long that takes, so I would say the only way to really do it is the restore as new, and not from a backup. This will delete all of your data and you will need to sync data back individually.

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Hey obadm,
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What version of BlackBerry Desktop Software are you using on the Mac? Also go to Device>Forget Data and close down BlackBerry Desktop Software and re-open the application and then try the synchronization.
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