Can I zap addresses from my Gmail auto-complete list?

You missed the fellows point. Deleting contacts is not difficult. It's the auto-complete feature he is talking about. I am searching for a fix to this annoying problem myself. If you delete someone form your contacts. They can and do still show up in the auto-complete feature as you type an email address into the the To; field.

@DaveL: Exactly so. Did you resolve this? Its maddening, and I'm looking for a fix too.

also, i would like to keep the contact but I don't want it showing in my auto complete

Hi, me too ... I want to remove this one address from the auto complete feature.
Deleting from the address book does not fix the issue.

Someone help plz

Try the Tools->Options->privacy tab in the browser and clear the settings

Be sure you click "all contacts" when you're looking at your contacts. That should show every email address that could populate the autocomplete.

>DaveL: he didn't miss the point. he's understood and supplied a correct solu.

I have to agree with DaveL:
If you delete someone from your contacts, they still show up in the auto-complete feature... Any suggestions?

Hi!

I can confirm it worked for me. I had two similar email address poping up in the autocomplete and now only one shows up after deleting it from the contacts list.

For who it didn't work: Maybe you have autocomplete in the browser or you did not delete it from the contacts. That was all that I did. I'm on IE 7.0 and ajax Gmail.

Deleting from All Contacts worked for me too, using Gmail on Firefox.

Can't tell you how many times I have or almost have sent a message to an e-mail address that I accidentally mistyped once 2 years ago. Thank you, thank you!

Thanks! Your answer was very helpful and concise! Gmail's auto-complete was driving me nuts!

I have the solution for all of you who still have the autocomplete problem when you delete the contacts. I'm assuming that you imported contacts from another email address. You have to stop importing messages and eliminate all ties with the previous email. It worked for me. Go to settings>import-accounts and delete the account that had the addresses you no longer want to see. hope this helps, it saved me.

Thank you so much for this thread. Deleting the erroneous contact AND clearing my IE form data worked. THANK YOU AGAIN!

i want to remove gmail permenently

Exactly what I was looking for. Easy enough once you know how. Thank you very much.

Make sure once you go into Gmail 'contacts', choose 'all contacts' - the old address was in the list, but it wasn't apparent

Go to contacts in Gmail, you'll see "other contacts". delete everything in there. That did the trcik for me.

You have to delete them from your contacts - then log out of gmail. Once you log back in, they're gone!

Thank you! It worked perfectly and my contacts are now decluttered!

Following worked me perfectly. Hope this helps others too. Once done needs logout and the login and check.

Goto -> Settings -> Accounts and Import - > Google Account Settings (Under Change account settings) -> View data stored with this account (Under dashboard) -> Manage Contacts (Under Contacts).

Now select the unwanted contacts which appears in the autocomplete and click "Delete Contact".

Now logoff and then login and see.
Great to see that it is cleaned up.

Rajasekaran P's advice from Dec 2 worked perfectly for me. However, to reach the page where you delete the contacts, I only needed to click "Contacts". That may be because my GMail is a corporate account. Thank you all for the advice, such a great tip. Wish there were a more intuitive way for folks to do this.

Thanks a lot, very helpful.

Here is another way that is successful without the need to log out in this current version of gmail. To remove an address from the auto-complete list, follow these steps: ... Click on Contacts again on the left of the side bar. ... Then click on the Other Contacts this will list all contacts. ... Check the box you want removed from the list. ... Click on the More Actions tab and from that drop down click on Delete Contact. ... That email is removed and will no longer auto-complete when you compose a new email.

I simply clicked 'contacts', then 'other contacts'. Checked the ones to delete and then 'delete contacts'

Piece of cake! Cheers

Chris and Kurtis's posts seem to cover the current version of gmail. I did however have to log out and then log back in to gmail before the deleted contact did not appear in the auto complete list. Thanks for the help!

Hi,
I kept my mouse pointer on each of the addresses coming in the drop down and clicked on 'Del' button.
And it got disappeared from the list and never came back.
I also did delete temporary files and cookies and history.
Not sure if al these are connected.
But simply deleting by keeping mouse pointer works I guess... just try...

I am sorry.. i missed out the important words .. "recipient of our message".. pls ignore my comment... :)

yarngrrl THANKS for the tip about logging out - wish that was included in the orig post! worked perfectly. thanks dave and yarngrrl!

Does anybody know how to do this for a Domain? We use google apps for education. I had already figured out how to nuke them out of *my* address book, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it for everybody. What happens, is I get ride of it out of my address book, but somebody else in my domain still has it, so it continues to propagate. I do have admin privs.