Loss of data

[Bill George]

Just connected my computer to SBS 2003; During the automated process of
moving my workstation/Outlook profile over to my new server account a new
Business Contact Manager database was created and I don't seem to be able to
get back to the original.

I think I see the two files in the same folder, just don't seem to be able
to get to the data. Here is what I see in my "...\Business Contact Manager"
folder:

MSBusinessContactManager.ldf
MSBusinessContactManager.mdf
MSBusinessContactManager2.ldf
MSBusinessContactManager2.mdf

The two mdf files and then the two ldf files are the same size, so I can't
confirm that either has my original data.

Any hints?

Bill George

 

[SSinha]

Hi Bill,

'MSBusinessContactManager' is the database which was created first and
'MSBusinessContactManager2' was created later on. Try connecting to
'MSBusinessContactManager' as below:

1. Click on File -> Data File Management
2. If a BCM Database is already associated, then select the same and click
on 'Remove' and confirm by clicking 'Yes'.
3. Now click on 'Add' button.
4. Select 'Business Contact Manager Database' and click 'OK'
5. You should be able to select the 'Existing Database' -
'MSBusinessContactManager'

This will associate your profile to 'MSBusinessContactManager'. Check the
data if it was in your original database. If not, then follow the same steps
to connect to 'MSBusinessContactManager2'

 

[Bill George]

Unfortunately your suggestion didn't work.

I did figure out the problem was related to the old database being created
under a different computer name. When I got added to the SBS environment my
computer name was changed from BILL to DELL04, which made my original
database unaccessable.
I was able to work around the problem by logging in on my local user
account, changing the computer name back to BILL, backing-up (could not
access this file) and also exporting (was able to import this data) the BCM
data.
This procedure royally messed up my connection to the network and I had to
go through all kinds of maginations to correct them, but I was able to import
my original data in the end.
There should be a conversion of BCM data built into the "ConnectComputer"
routine in SBS.

Bill George