on 10/20/2000 12:44 AM, Dean Suhr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Allen - you're tinkering late tonight!
>
>> on 10/20/00 12:12 AM, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> on 10/17/2000 5:03 PM, Dean Suhr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> I'm doing the new user thing and promise that I'm looking in the help before
>>> writing these queries ...
>>>
>>> 1) I imported nearly a thousand contacts from OE. When I type names in the
>>> addressing fields the names and addresses all autofill as I'm used to. BUT
>>> - I cannot see them in the address book. I can't see any obvious
>>> indications of a filter being on. The eraser for filters is grayed out.
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Well, I imported about the same number and they all show up. Odd yours
>> don't. One stupid thought: Did you have a bunch of blank names, by chance,
>> and they are sorted to the top? Or blank records? What happens when you
>> filter on some name you know is there? Do you see anything show up? Play
>> around with the column headers, clicking them for differing sorts, to see if
>> anything shows. At the bottom of the Address Book window, how many items are
>> indicated? Mine, for instance, says, "1725 items displayed, 1 selected".
>
> My address pane says 3 items displayed (these were contacts I added in
> E'rage), 0 items selected. The filter eraser is grayed out, columns don't
> seem to matter. I'm not sure how I would delete contacts that I can't see
> to start over and re-import. I can't select them to delete in E'Rage, and I
> don't see a contact file in my identities folder.
>
> Oh well - might require a from the ground recreation.
>
One import I ran (from a Consultant contact file, exported to text) seemed
to run, but produced nothing. I found that if I re-exported the original
file and included the field names as first record, then everything showed up
when I imported to E'rage. Give that a try.
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