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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / February 2004Missing Contacts afer uninstalling BCM / Ooutllok 2003
I recently evaluated a copy of the new outlook 2003 with business contact manager. Before that I was using outlook 2002. I had a contacts category called business which was ported over the business contact manager application. after deciding that we did not need outlook 2003, we uninstalled it and went back to outlook 2002. Now we cant find all our business contacts. how do we get them back? there are files on my pc with mdf and ldf extensions... The easiest way to recover them might be to reinstall BCM and export (File | Import & Export | Business Contact Manager). If you don't want to do that, you can try to connect to the BCM database with Microsoft Access, assuming the uninstall didn't remove the database, too. I did it by setting up a DSN to connect to the local SQL machinename\MICROSOFTBCM server .  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > I recently evaluated a copy of the new outlook 2003 with > business contact manager. Before that I was using outlook [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > find all our business contacts. how do we get them back? > there are files on my pc with mdf and ldf extensions... Hi Sue, I have the option of saving the export file as a .bcm file or a csv file. which one can easily be imported back into outlook 02 and how do I do that? I tried importing the csv file into outlook 02 and had an error message about unrecognizable file type ... help! >-----Original Message----- >The easiest way to recover them might be to reinstall BCM and export (File | [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >. .csv will import into regular Outlook contacts. .bcm will import only into BCM. You can always open the .csv file in Excel before importing to see if it needs cleaning up. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > > >. |
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