Importing from .bcm file -- partial data loss: help!

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Brad - 16 Feb 2005 19:03 GMT

I wanted to transfer my business contacts from one computer to a
replacement. Seemed like the easy way was to export from the original
into a .bcm file, then import same file onto the new computer.

This appeared to work fine, it seems that all contacts imported
properly. Phone numbers seem OK. But I just noticed that
approximately 60%+ of email addresses (and some home/business
addresses) are missing on the new computer BCM application.

Has anyone else experienced this? Would I be better off doing this
over exporting/importing with a .csv file?

Thanks!

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Brad - 16 Feb 2005 20:13 GMT

Well, to answer my own question: importing from .csv requires you to
manually map fields, but I now appear to have 100% data transfer.
Would still love to see a fix for transferring notes and phone logs
though.

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SSinha - 24 Feb 2005 06:55 GMT

Hi,
Currently BCM does not support importing the history items (notes and phone
logs) alongwith the accounts and Business Contacts. However, this is in the
wish-list for future versions of BCM.

> Well, to answer my own question: importing from .csv requires you to
> manually map fields, but I now appear to have 100% data transfer.
> Would still love to see a fix for transferring notes and phone logs
> though.

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Luther - 24 Feb 2005 14:17 GMT

BCM files support the same fields as CSV and more, but the email
addresses are a little tricky.

Create a Contact in BCM with all email fields and export it to a bcm
file, then open the file in notepad to see how the email elements are
laid out.

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