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Jim,
Of course, I'm delighted by your success to solve the mystery.
If a URD is corrupt, Compact & Repair... won't help.
My luck of inventing the solution is my extensive experience in URD corruption. For instance, after duplicating an exact copy of a URD, I delete most folders and info items in the new URD. Then, I ran Compact & Repair..., the new URD remains to be 44MB. Instead, I followed the steps I mentioned above, the resultant URD file size is 205KB! I realize that Compact & Repair... is no panacea to URD corruption.
Whenever the integrity of the URD is in doubt, don't duplicate. Create a new URD. It's not tedious to manually copy root folders from the old URD to the new one. Definitely, it's safe.
BTW, URD corruption can likely occur if the FTS conversion is interrupted midway. Sometimes, you must interrupt the FTS conversion because the FTS hang indefinitely and the CPU usage exceed 40% for 30 minutes.
As to Outlook contacts, I would rather resync with the Outlook into another newly created Folder. After you gain confidence in no data loss, you may delete the old Contact Folder.
Just my 2 cents.
Armstrong
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