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I have a big privacy problem with unwanted address book contacts showed in skype for windows desktop.
What I did is:
Logged in with the skype account (a work account) on my personal Android smartphone;
Removed contacts syncing from Skype app on Android smartphone;
Logged out from this account on Android smartphone;
Opened Skype for Windows desktop computer and a lot of contacts from my personal contacts list are showed on "contacts all" tab. It is showed as: "John Smith is an address book contact", and it shows also the account name if clicking on the profile picture (i.e. john.smith)
This is very annoying because this is a workplace skype account and I do not want my boss and my colleagues to see all my personal contact list on the company computer.
Is there a way to see the address book and to delete these contacts?
If I select the contact and right-click on the blue area around it, I do not see the option remove contact from the list menu.
Any useful tips are very welcome!
Could you post a screenshot of the missing
Remove from Contacts
list item? – TheKB – 2016-06-12T10:44:10.520I'm afraid I can't because have not enough reputation on the forum – user501338 – 2016-06-12T13:32:32.233
What is strange is that this issue affects only my contacts. The regular contacts have the "remove" option. – user501338 – 2016-06-12T13:34:01.007
Interesting. Comment a link to the picture using Imgur and I will insert it for you.
– TheKB – 2016-06-12T16:44:18.510Thank you very much for your help and sorry for the late answer. I am figuring out what is happening with the Skype customer service. I think I do not need the screenshot for the moment. I will post the solution once I have found it! – user501338 – 2016-06-22T09:40:01.557
Voting to close not because this is incorrect—it was correct at the time—but Microsoft keeps on changing how Skype behaves to the point that info like this is already out of date. – JakeGould – 2018-02-19T00:47:56.517