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Can I zap addresses from my Gmail auto-complete list?One thing I find really irritating about Gmail is that once you have used an email address (as recipient for your message), this address is stored forever, in some place where you cannot access it. I.e., it does not show up in your contacs. But whenever I start typing an email address as recipient, this list with addresses I once used keeps being showed. I want rid of these old addresses! Do you know how to do that? It's not easy, but you can delete addresses from your Google Gmail auto-complete list. To do this, click on the Contacts link on the left side once you're logged in to your Gmail account. Then click All Contacts: ![]() If you're like me, you'll find that Gmail has grabbed tons of email addresses and dropped them into the contact list. Definitely a drag. If you want to just delete one or two, use the search feature to find them, check the adjacent box, and delete them. Tedious, but effective. If you want to delete a class of addresses, like everyone who uses Hotmail, search for "hotmail.com", then once you have your set of matches, scroll down to the bottom and notice that there are two shortcuts: ![]() Click on All then if there are a few you want to retain, uncheck those before you click on the "Delete" button. Finally, if you've had it and want to delete everyone in the contacts list, simply scroll to the bottom of the "All Contacts" list, click "All" and select "Delete". Unfortunately there's no smart filtering system for managing this, no "select all addresses to which that I have never sent a message", though that'd be darn cool. Or just ignore it all, which is what I do. Hope that helps you out!
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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. Posted by: DaveL at November 24, 2007 1:08 PM@DaveL: Exactly so. Did you resolve this? Its maddening, and I'm looking for a fix too. Posted by: GeorgeC at February 5, 2008 1:05 AMalso, i would like to keep the contact but I don't want it showing in my auto complete Posted by: turnditch at June 17, 2009 2:34 AMHi, me too ... I want to remove this one address from the auto complete feature. Someone help plz Posted by: Anurag at July 7, 2009 12:09 AMTry the Tools->Options->privacy tab in the browser and clear the settings Posted by: vimala at October 5, 2009 2:00 AMBe sure you click "all contacts" when you're looking at your contacts. That should show every email address that could populate the autocomplete. Posted by: David at November 6, 2009 8:06 AM>DaveL: he didn't miss the point. he's understood and supplied a correct solu. Posted by: Bart at November 25, 2009 2:24 AMI have to agree with DaveL: 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. Posted by: Mobilier Comanda at December 7, 2009 7:06 AMDeleting 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! Posted by: Lesley at January 22, 2010 12:31 PMThanks! 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. Posted by: Dan at February 4, 2010 9:52 PMThank you so much for this thread. Deleting the erroneous contact AND clearing my IE form data worked. THANK YOU AGAIN! Posted by: Marie at March 30, 2010 9:05 PMi want to remove gmail permenently Posted by: raghul at June 18, 2010 10:20 AMExactly what I was looking for. Easy enough once you know how. Thank you very much. Posted by: johnclevidence at June 21, 2010 7:20 PMMake sure once you go into Gmail 'contacts', choose 'all contacts' - the old address was in the list, but it wasn't apparent Posted by: Blake at July 14, 2010 1:34 PMGo to contacts in Gmail, you'll see "other contacts". delete everything in there. That did the trcik for me. Posted by: Simon at September 2, 2010 7:35 AMYou have to delete them from your contacts - then log out of gmail. Once you log back in, they're gone! Posted by: yarngrrl at October 14, 2010 8:59 AMThank you! It worked perfectly and my contacts are now decluttered! Posted by: Sharon at October 15, 2010 9:58 PMFollowing 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. 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. Posted by: Marina at December 10, 2010 10:44 AMThanks a lot, very helpful. Posted by: Co at January 20, 2011 3:36 PMHere 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. Posted by: chris at March 1, 2011 2:34 AMI simply clicked 'contacts', then 'other contacts'. Checked the ones to delete and then 'delete contacts' Piece of cake! Cheers Posted by: kurtis at March 14, 2011 8:20 AMChris 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! Posted by: Barry at March 30, 2011 10:04 AMHi, I am sorry.. i missed out the important words .. "recipient of our message".. pls ignore my comment... :) Posted by: Sukanya at March 31, 2011 8:20 AMyarngrrl THANKS for the tip about logging out - wish that was included in the orig post! worked perfectly. thanks dave and yarngrrl! Posted by: denisekc at July 4, 2011 9:09 AMDoes 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. Posted by: Angela at September 27, 2011 4:32 PMI have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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