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Tom - 20 Feb 2007 19:49 GMT

I moved the location of my PST file from one location to another on our
network, and everything works fine except for my distribution lists. If I
click on "Update Now", the window pops up and tells me that "One or more
members of this distribution list cannot be found". If I click on "try to
repair", all of my contacts change from the little address card with a person
on it to a plain address card. As I understand it, the distribution list
doesn't know where to find the contacts. I've had similar problems with this
before, and the only solution I found was to recreate all my distribution
lists. Is there some addtional file that needs to be relocated (such as the
NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 20 Feb 2007 21:20 GMT

Moving a PST will break all DL's. So will lots of other things. Most of us
don't use them for that reason.

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>I moved the location of my PST file from one location to another on our
> network, and everything works fine except for my distribution lists. If I
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> the
> NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?

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Tom - 20 Feb 2007 23:37 GMT

The funny thing is that I've moved these files around before, and not had
this problem. In fact, I copy my PST file from our server over to my laptop
every Friday, then back again every Monday. I've been doing that for months.
Why would moving it from one location on the server to another behave
differently than between the server and a laptop?

> Moving a PST will break all DL's. So will lots of other things. Most of us
> don't use them for that reason.
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> > the
> > NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 20 Feb 2007 23:48 GMT

Not enough information to posit a guess. DL's lose their connection to their
member Contacts whenever you move the data file. It is one of many bugs that
keep DL's from ever being a useful feature. Everyone I know has abandoned
them.

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> The funny thing is that I've moved these files around before, and not had
> this problem. In fact, I copy my PST file from our server over to my
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>> > the
>> > NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?

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Tom - 21 Feb 2007 01:00 GMT

What do you recommend using in their place? I maintain two groups of
contacts, each of about 275 people. One is my media list, broken up into 8
distribution lists based on different types. The other is a similar list of
contacts broken up into 9 different groups.

Thanks,
Tom

> Not enough information to posit a guess. DL's lose their connection to their
> member Contacts whenever you move the data file. It is one of many bugs that
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> >> > the
> >> > NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 21 Feb 2007 02:57 GMT

Categories work better than DLs and are more robust, configurable and transferable.

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After furious head scratching, Tom asked:

| What do you recommend using in their place? I maintain two groups of
| contacts, each of about 275 people. One is my media list, broken up
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