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One complaint I get all the time (and often make myself) is about the ridiculous folder clutter on the Contacts and Calendar navigation pane when you have multiple email accounts in your profile.
Every account that has it's own data file will have a Contacts and a Suggested Contacts folder. Every Exchange or Hotmail connector account will have it's own Calendar (and often more than one!). Use the LinkedIn or Live Social Connector providers? Add more contacts folders… Use iCloud? Add more… Before you are done setting up a profile, you could easily have 10 or 15 contacts folders (or more!) cluttering up the navigation pane.
Although you can't delete the folders, you can easily hide the ones you don't want to see in a Group. Right click on the My Contacts group and choose New Folder Group. Enter a name for your group then drag the contact folders you don't need to it and collapse it when finished.
Published February 8, 2012. Last updated on April 10, 2013.
One folder moved. The other would not move by drag and drop. Two folders (Contacts - apple Mail Export.pst) and (Suggested contacts) said the operation failed. The object could not be found.
Do those two folders exist in your profile? Both of those folders can be deleted (suggested contacts can be deleted in 2013 or 2016) but the folder name might be left on the navigation pane. Touching it will bring up that error and then it disappears.
You can switch to the folder list to see if they are in the profile - Ctrl+6 to bring it up. (Ctrl+1 takes you back to Mail or click the buttons at the bottom of the pane.)
Well, if I can't delete MS's crappy system, at least I can ignore it by putting it in isolation this way. Best solution that I've seen after scouring the web for 1.5 hrs. Many thanks for a simple solution.
Perfect! This took a LOT of digging, and you finally solved it for me. Big improvement, and my default Contacts list is now at the top (and all alone).