Re: Adding to Address Book through Tools on tool-bar OE 5.0.6

From: Nathan Schwam (nathan.schwam_at_josephstreetrecords.com)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:41:51 -0700

Beth: Well, now, I can't even manually add a new contact. I currently have
523 contacts in my Address Book

By using the Shift Key, I was able to drag all e-mail adddresses to a
separate Contacts Folder. 95% came out as clippings with the rest coming out
out as e-mail adddresses. don't know why it did that. But, after setting
up the second identity, I can't drag the contents of the Contacts Folder to
the second Identity's empty address book window. It just goes back to the
source. I can't figure out a way around it. Shift won't work in
highlighting a range of files which makes the hundred at a time idea not
doable. Any other ideas? It's serious if I can't ender ANY new contacts
> From: Beth Rosengard <bethrosengard@earthlink.net>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:27:40 -0700
> Subject: Re: Adding to Address Book through Tools on tool-bar OE 5.0.6
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Since all your problems have to do with contacts, I'm beginning to think
> that you have a malformed or otherwise corrupt contact somewhere.
>
> Is it possible to export just a selection of contacts? Sorry I can't
> remember. If so, you could try exporting half of your contacts and then the
> other half to see which half crashes OE. Then divide the bad half again,
> etc., until you locate and eliminate (or remake/fix) the bad contact.
>
> Nah. You can't do that. I should have looked first :-). Try this instead:
>
> 1. Make a folder on the desktop called contacts.
> 2. Open your Address Book, click on any contact and Select All (Command>a).
> 3. Drag all the contacts into the folder on the desktop. (Check to be sure
> you're not losing any contacts. You may have to do this in groups of 100 or
> so if you are.)
> 4. Create a new identity (File>Switch Identity)
> 5. Click on the Address Book in the new identity.
> 6. Open the desktop folder, select the entire contents (or the subgroups of
> 100) and drag them into the preview pane of the Address Book.
>
> The idea here is to duplicate the Address Book in a new identity.
>
> Now, can you export your contacts from the new identity without crashing OE?
> If so, your contacts are okay but your old identity isn't and you should do
> the rebuilds again. If not, post back and I'll come up with a way to test
> your contacts without having to examine every single one :-).
>
> --
> Beth Rosengard
> Mac MVP
>
> Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
>
>
>
> On 5/18/04 8:15 AM, in article
> BCCF76BA.1F82%nathan.schwam@josephstreetrecords.com, "Nathan Schwam"
> <nathan.schwam@josephstreetrecords.com> wrote:
>
>> I did compact and even rebuild the database about 2 weeks ago when I was
>> unable to export a complete contacts file without crashing the program (that
>> problem still exists).
>>
>> Should I try it again? any other potential remedies? thank you. nathan
>>
>>> From: Beth Rosengard <bethrosengard@earthlink.net>
>>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac
>>> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:19:50 -0700
>>> Subject: Re: Adding to Address Book through Tools on tool-bar OE 5.0.6
>>>
>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>
>>> See if compacting your database will help: Hold down the Option key while
>>> opening OE and say Yes when asked if you want to compact your database.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Beth Rosengard
>>> Mac MVP
>>>
>>> Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
>>> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/17/04 9:18 AM, in article
>>> BCCE33D9.1F2E%nathan.schwam@josephstreetrecords.com, "Nathan Schwam"
>>> <nathan.schwam@josephstreetrecords.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems to have stopped working totally, or maybe just 80% of the time. I
>>>> don't use it that often, but it's a great convenience. I think I have
>>>> about 450 contacts all total in OExpress 5.0.6 on OS 9.1. It's a pain to
>>>> have to copy and paste each address when it won't add it with a click of
>>>> the
>>>> mouse!!
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you. nathan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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