on 6/20/05 7:43 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Paul, would this preserve links, etc when re-imported? > > It preserves etc. (categories) but not links. Links are via ID and the IDs > are gone when you delete and re-import. In fact they can't even be recreated > by linking to contacts of the same name since the contact link might not > even exist yet (not have been re-imported yet) when the contact itself is > recreated. > > I can't see that doing it in Excel or a tab-text file is going to be any > quicker than in Entourage itself unless you're doing a find-and-replace of a > particular email domain, say, for 50 people which has changed for all of > them to a new domain. That does happen, and then the Excel or text method > would work well. I don't see that searching for duplicate email addresses or > phone numbers is going to be any quicker.
Paul, thanks for the feedback on export/cleanup/re-import. The situation I face in one in which, after some back and forth between Entourage and AddressBook, I have multiple contacts in which what was once a record such as this: FirstName LastName Company Street City, ST Zip Work : WorkPhone Email: WorkEmail Have become a record like this instead: FirstName LastName Company Street City, ST Zip Work : WorkPhone Work : WorkPhone Email: WorkEmail Email: WorkEmail It's this duplication of data within the record that I was looking for a programmatic/scripting solution to. I s'pect at this point, I'll just do it manually a few records at a time, so as to preserve the existing links. Open nets... -- Norman Ferguson | Dir of Technology Services | Tekgnosys 1917 Maylin Drive; Suite 103, Salem VA 24153 cell: 540-819-4014 http://www.tekgnosys.com Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
