Help lost contacts on desire - storage space being used?

[mindexplode]

HI. I have an HTC desire, I took out the SD card and replaced it with a new one, when putting in the original SC card, the contacts saved on the phone appeared to have been wiped but when checking space used there is storage space being used by the contact list - other then putting them all in from scratch any ideas?

 

[SUroot]

What does the export file contain if you export the contacts using the people app?

 

[mindexplode]

I'm sorry - I'm not at all good at using my phone - how would I export the contacts using the people app - I haven't done that before?

 

[SUroot]

Open the people app, press menu, press export?

 

[mindexplode]

only the 5 I have added since I have the problem - I am tempted to delete the storage file and start again from scratch - is that a bad idea?
Contact storage is 4.72MB - I had over a hundred contacts

 

[SUroot]

its not a bad idea. You will never get them back then but I dont think you will now anyway.

It may be worth considering using google contacts moving forwards....