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Southern Living At HOME Lady - 16 Mar 2006 00:43 GMT

I recently reinstalled Outlook 2003 Sm Bus Edition w/ Bus Contact Mgr.
I copied my contacts to the Contact file.
I am finding that previously linked contacts are no longer linked. Instead
I get the following error: "Cannot perform the requested operation. The
command selected is not valid for this recepient." Must I relink each item
individually?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 16 Mar 2006 04:51 GMT

Probably. Depends on what you mean by "I copied my contacts to the Contact
file." That could mean anything.
If you migrate data correctly, you wouldn't have to recreate links.

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Russ Valentine
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>I recently reinstalled Outlook 2003 Sm Bus Edition w/ Bus Contact Mgr.
> I copied my contacts to the Contact file.
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> item
> individually?

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Southern Living At HOME Lady - 16 Mar 2006 16:31 GMT

My hard drive crashed. My Outlook info was saved to a disk. I copied the
info to my desktop, then imported the info into Outlook. I then had two
Contact files, one empty and one containing all my info. Since I couldn't
change the file that Outlook automatically saved contact in, I copied and
pasted all of my contacts into the "Contact" file and deleted the other extra
one. Email is there, but modified tasks are "not in your calendar or task
folder" and pre-existing links between contacts are gone.

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> Probably. Depends on what you mean by "I copied my contacts to the Contact
> file." That could mean anything.
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 16 Mar 2006 22:51 GMT

No wonder. Importing is never the correct way to migrate Outlook data. It
breaks all links and loses other data as well.
Next time, just open your data file in Outlook. Never import it.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

> My hard drive crashed. My Outlook info was saved to a disk. I copied the
> info to my desktop, then imported the info into Outlook. I then had two
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Southern Living At HOME Lady - 17 Mar 2006 00:08 GMT

How do I do this? The file was not in Outlook. When I reinstalled Outlook
it made up it's own files. My info was on a disc. I searched for the .pst
files and copied them to my desktop. How should I move the information into
Outlook if not by importing?

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> No wonder. Importing is never the correct way to migrate Outlook data. It
> breaks all links and loses other data as well.
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 17 Mar 2006 01:08 GMT

The way I already posted. Please post what you did not understand.
File > Open > Outlook Data File... is the sequence you would use.

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> How do I do this? The file was not in Outlook. When I reinstalled
> Outlook
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