Limit to Custom Views?

J

Joe Havrilla

I have imported all of my contacts into Entourage. I added several custom
views to my address book to view the 1000 or so by Category (customer view
refers to said categories). On about the 5th or so new view that I added,
it did not show up in the list of views. I didn't think much of it, so I
tried adding it again and got an error saying that it already existed. Now,
no new view is seen in the list of views, but they apparently exist because
I cannot "re-add" any views with those names. The original 5 or so are
still showing in the list.

Anyone else run into this? Is it a bug or some sort of cockpit error on my
part?


Thanks,


Joe
 
B

Barry Wainwright [MVP]

I have imported all of my contacts into Entourage. I added several custom
views to my address book to view the 1000 or so by Category (customer view
refers to said categories). On about the 5th or so new view that I added,
it did not show up in the list of views. I didn't think much of it, so I
tried adding it again and got an error saying that it already existed. Now,
no new view is seen in the list of views, but they apparently exist because
I cannot "re-add" any views with those names. The original 5 or so are
still showing in the list.

Anyone else run into this? Is it a bug or some sort of cockpit error on my
part?
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It is possibly an early sign of mild database corruption.

Office vX:
Hold down the option key when starting Entourage and take the first option
('typical rebuild'). If this doesn¹t resolve the problems, then try an
ŒAdvanced Rebuild¹.

Office 2004:
You still call the rebuilder by holding down Option key at launch, but it
now brings up a separate app "Database Utility" (which could be launched by
double-clicking of you wish) that lives in the Office subfolder.

First of all, if you have any Office apps open, a dialog comes up that
offers to quit them.

Then you get a window with a list of your identities to select from, and
four options:

1) It has a new feature "Verify database integrity" option: this should
reduce unnecessary rebuilding. Apparently it's quite sensitive. And see 4)
below.

2) "Compact the database". (Like X's "Typical rebuild").

3) Rebuild the database. (Like X's "Advanced Rebuild")

4) "Set database preferences". Actually there's only one pref: you can turn
on "Verify database in background "which means "run automatically" and let
you know if your database needs rebuilding.
 
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