Hello Matt Cahill, On or about Monday, January 20, 2003 at 14:13:08GMT -0500 (which was 2:13 PM in the tropics where I live) Matt Cahill expressed:
MC> I'm trying to import the contacts from my company's Outlook MC> program to The Bat. I think I've made *some* headway, MC> compared to previous attempts. I found a program called Dawn MC> (http://www.joshie.com/projects/dawn/). Using that, I was MC> able to go: It works pretty darn well. The problem with address book converters is that Micro$haft seems to alter the format (slightly) with each upgrade of the software. This creates havoc with any design of an import function. Only their algorithm included with the new distro seems to be able to correctly identify the existing format and make the adjustment. MC> The problem is this: there are many empty-titled entries at MC> the head of the newly imported address list...these entries MC> contain phone numbers that for some reason belong to some of MC> the other entries but somehow have been orphaned in the MC> process of importing. The imported address list in Dawn (the MC> middle step between importing from OE and exporting to TB) MC> has all of the information intact without orphans. This has been covered before, but is a little dicey. It seems that if you EXCLUDE the birthday field in the export, the problem will be eliminated. Someone correct me if I err....... -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed. -------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Against HTML Mail \ / If it aint a webpage it shouldn't be HTML. X Say NO! to bloatmail - ban HTML mail! / \ Ask Spikey, he hates everything (HTML). -------------------------------------------------- Flying in the stratosphere with The Bat! V1.61 on Windows 2000 Vers. 5 0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
