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Can I Sync Multiple Contacts Files in Outlook 2003
Through a number of PC crashes and various other problems, I have lost some
important entries from my current Outlook 2003 Contacts List (I have the same issue with Calendar). I have a number of backup copies of my contacts.pst file, but some of those were corrupted through various sync programs which synced with my Palm, Blackberry Motorola handhelds. The problem appears to be limited to duplication (sometimes multiple dup's) of some contacts. I would really like to sync all of the disparate versions into a single pristine Contacts List. I am sure that some of the missing Contacts are contained in the old backups, so I don't want to just dump them. If I Import the old files into the current file, I end up with duplicate records, even with the "Replace duplicates" option checked. Because of the duplication issues, I don't want to just import the old files into my current file, since I would end up with 5-6 duplicates of numerous records. Does anyone know of a tool with functionality similar to Microsoft's Sync Toy which would allow me to combine (synchronize) multiple .pst files in an effort to salvage the lost records without creating an unmanagable number of duplicates? -- Thanks, Ardyr |
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Can I Sync Multiple Contacts Files in Outlook 2003
"Ardyr" wrote in message
... I would really like to sync all of the disparate versions into a single pristine Contacts List. I am sure that some of the missing Contacts are contained in the old backups, so I don't want to just dump them. If I Import the old files into the current file, I end up with duplicate records, even with the "Replace duplicates" option checked. Because of the duplication issues, I don't want to just import the old files into my current file, since I would end up with 5-6 duplicates of numerous records. Does anyone know of a tool with functionality similar to Microsoft's Sync Toy which would allow me to combine (synchronize) multiple .pst files in an effort to salvage the lost records without creating an unmanagable number of duplicates? Just open all of the PSTs, copy the contents of the various Contacts folders into one contacts folde,r then use a duplicate remover to clean it up. http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts_dups.asp (At least one freeware one there.) -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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