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BCM with Outlook 2003 Professional I use it religiously and solely to manage
affairs in business everyday, all day I have been recording notes and phone
conversations, etc relating to my day to day business. I have always seen
"Connect to Accounting" in a drop down menu. Since I have begun I am (or was)
tracking a great amount of information in outlook and it would be nice to
have 'integration with outlook bcm 2003' and put the actual accounting data
where it should be in an accounting module or program that was supposed to
integrate with bcm, small business accounting 2006. I was intrigued and
decided to order the cd. Attempted to install the trial version of the
sba2006 and that's when it all began...
during installation of the trial version of acctg it told me that I needed
to uninstall a previously installed 'automatic update' entitled update to
msol w/bcm and sba and the dialog box assured me that the update would
reinstall automatically with this cd of sba I went to cntrl panel add remove
and uninstalled the update leaving the original program intact.
Proceded to restart the install of the sba and it opened fine. The trial
works great. It tells me that i can add customers right from accounts in
msoutlook bcm. I say great and open microsoft outlook with bcm and that's
when it got ugly.
Outlook acted as if I never initialized bcm, asking me if I wanted to use
bcm. I said yes and attempted to select or connect to an existing db. the
drop down box where I would've selected my bcm file is empty. Click connect,
still nothing.
I called Dell. Dell tells me they don't want to have me uninstall and
reinstall anything because we both see the contacts file in bcm folder and
not only that but also the backup file i created on 6-7-06. Nothing we do can
connect us to these ldf or mdf files and the backup is an msbcm file
extension not bcm as it wants in the open db dialog box. They tell me to
call Microsoft...
I read about overwriting the newly created 'empty' - I must note during
search we found an old export of contacts which imported contact names but
not the vitally important contact information stored in journal or history
(it's the box at the bottom of the contact dialog box under accounts in bcm.)
My accounts information and contacts and phone conversations, related emails,
notes etc. are all gone.
I've read all sorts of things like misdirected msde files (of which i do see
two by the way, one created long ago when I started tracking information in
bcm and one with a creation date of the installation of the trial sba) I do
not know what to do with these msde files, i have read it has something to do
with editing the registry which quite frankly freaks me out.
To add insult to injury I see the 'baronyhomescontacts' file that is the bcm
database in the same folder as some default thing that was created as a test
today and the other file in that folder is the much larger version of the
issue that has been created.
When i used the test of overwriting the data in the database from a back up
and I received the following error message. " Restore did not complete
succesfully, Line 1: incorrect syntax near "s". I had the sinking feeling of
defeat and desperation and decided to make this post in desperate hope that
you can help. This is my livelihood as I know it and tried to backup
regularly and now I am left wondering, for what?
Please help. Thank you.
affairs in business everyday, all day I have been recording notes and phone
conversations, etc relating to my day to day business. I have always seen
"Connect to Accounting" in a drop down menu. Since I have begun I am (or was)
tracking a great amount of information in outlook and it would be nice to
have 'integration with outlook bcm 2003' and put the actual accounting data
where it should be in an accounting module or program that was supposed to
integrate with bcm, small business accounting 2006. I was intrigued and
decided to order the cd. Attempted to install the trial version of the
sba2006 and that's when it all began...
during installation of the trial version of acctg it told me that I needed
to uninstall a previously installed 'automatic update' entitled update to
msol w/bcm and sba and the dialog box assured me that the update would
reinstall automatically with this cd of sba I went to cntrl panel add remove
and uninstalled the update leaving the original program intact.
Proceded to restart the install of the sba and it opened fine. The trial
works great. It tells me that i can add customers right from accounts in
msoutlook bcm. I say great and open microsoft outlook with bcm and that's
when it got ugly.
Outlook acted as if I never initialized bcm, asking me if I wanted to use
bcm. I said yes and attempted to select or connect to an existing db. the
drop down box where I would've selected my bcm file is empty. Click connect,
still nothing.
I called Dell. Dell tells me they don't want to have me uninstall and
reinstall anything because we both see the contacts file in bcm folder and
not only that but also the backup file i created on 6-7-06. Nothing we do can
connect us to these ldf or mdf files and the backup is an msbcm file
extension not bcm as it wants in the open db dialog box. They tell me to
call Microsoft...
I read about overwriting the newly created 'empty' - I must note during
search we found an old export of contacts which imported contact names but
not the vitally important contact information stored in journal or history
(it's the box at the bottom of the contact dialog box under accounts in bcm.)
My accounts information and contacts and phone conversations, related emails,
notes etc. are all gone.
I've read all sorts of things like misdirected msde files (of which i do see
two by the way, one created long ago when I started tracking information in
bcm and one with a creation date of the installation of the trial sba) I do
not know what to do with these msde files, i have read it has something to do
with editing the registry which quite frankly freaks me out.
To add insult to injury I see the 'baronyhomescontacts' file that is the bcm
database in the same folder as some default thing that was created as a test
today and the other file in that folder is the much larger version of the
issue that has been created.
When i used the test of overwriting the data in the database from a back up
and I received the following error message. " Restore did not complete
succesfully, Line 1: incorrect syntax near "s". I had the sinking feeling of
defeat and desperation and decided to make this post in desperate hope that
you can help. This is my livelihood as I know it and tried to backup
regularly and now I am left wondering, for what?
Please help. Thank you.