Re: Entourage Address Book corruption?

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I'm also having the same problem. Here's how I can reproduce the issue:
1. Open a contact (call it Contact A)
2. Edit something on one of the tabs (e.g. Name & E-mail tab)
3. Edit something on another tab (e.g. the Personal tab)
4. Save the changes
5. Click the Next or Previous buttons (up/down arrow at the left of the
toolbar)
6. You are now viewing a different contact (call it Contact B)
7. Make a change on one of the tabs
8. Save the changes

At this point, you'll see that the changes to Contact B on the active tab
are saved correctly. However, the changes you made on any inactive tabs for
Contact A are incorrectly saved to Contact B. This is easily reproducible
every time you try it.


"Jeff Zienowicz" <jzienowicz@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BFBF512D.6163%jzienowicz@xxxxxxxxxx
> I've had the same problem and posted to the newsgroup about it (I think
> the
> subject heading was "Address Book Bug?"). It is very frustrating, and I
> was
> surprised that no one else seemed to be experiencing this.
>
> At the very least, I now know I'm not hallucinating.
>
> Rebuilding the database didn't help, and the issue is very reproducible
> for
> me. I noticed it while in the process of swapping home and business
> addresses for a number of contacts by cutting and pasting. I had a
> Contact
> window open and was using the next button to check the next record, and
> that
> seemed to be what was causing info from the record I had just edited to be
> written over the next one. As I kept selecting the next record, each one
> was overwritten with the same info.
>
>
> On 12/9/05 4:53 AM, in article
> 1134132785.455821.170810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> "texastroutbum@xxxxxxxxx" <texastroutbum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'm experiencing a very frustrating thing with Entourage 2004 (version
>> 11.2.1) and the Address Book. As I am editing and updating contact
>> addresses, the address book is randomly populating other contacts with
>> incorrect data.
>>
>> For example, if I go to "John Smith's" contact and update his address
>> to "123 Elm St.", I suddenly find that 5-10 OTHER contacts now have the
>>
>> "123 Elm St." address....
>>
>> This has occurred in other manners as well...If I edit a contact name
>> i.e. "John Doe" then multiple other contacts change to "John Doe"...
>>
>> I had one occurance of editing a contact, and that contact's picture
>> populated about 5-10 other contacts.
>>
>> Anyone have any hints on how to fix this? I've run the database utility
>>
>> and it tells me the database is fine.
>>
>


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