Bob Virzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/11/07 9:34 AM: > Well, that is kind of a draconian solution. I have the same problem as > Chris. Among the many, many autocomplete addresses I have stored, there are > just a few really old, outdated ones thrown in there. I cannot find them > anywhere in my AB, contact list, etc. So it is rather a mystery as to where > they are coming from, or how to get rid of them without throwing the baby > out with the bath water. > > FWIW, I imported a bunch of stuff when I switched over from Eudora. I > wonder if that is part of the issue.
I have had similar problems: 1) Entourage auto-completing "To" and "Cc" addresses, which were not found in my Entourage Address Book. 2) Addresses lurking in the Entourage Address Book, but not apparent or identifiable. If you do the suggested "Clear List"... Entourage Menu -> Preferences -> Compose -> [Button] Clear List ...that does not remove anything from your Entourage Address Book. It seems to clear some hidden list of addresses that Entourage has seen over some period of time. In my case, Entourage was trying to auto-complete some addresses that were from unread mails, "do not reply" addresses, spam, and some real addresses. "[Button] Clear List" fixed that for me, without doing anything to my Address Book. As to the strange addresses lurking in Entourage Address Book, you can try three other steps: 1. If your Entourage Sync Services is on (syncing Entourage Address Book with Apple Address Book.app), you can open Apple Address Book.app and go hunting there. You might see the bad/faulty/mystery addresses there. If you have syncing enabled, if you then delete or modify an entry in Address Book.app, that will make an equivalent change in the Entourage Address Book. 2. In Entourage, display Address Book, and show yourself more columns: [display icon] Address Book -> View Menu -> Columns Perhaps the names and addresses that were imported from Eudora are lurking in the wrong fields (such as Nickname, Company, Notes, Custom 1, Custom 2, etc.). My address book started ca. 1985, and progressed through migrations from AOL, FileMaker 4.x, Claris Emailer, Outlook Express, Entourage 2004 and Address Book.app. It takes a lot of display columns, followed by careful hunting, to locate and correct errant fields and errant data. 3. Export your Entourage Address Book to a .txt file. Open that text file in MS Excel. You will see all the fields shown as columns, with the data (or empty cells) shown below. Go hunting in that text file for the mysterious entries. Once you identify them, you can go back into Entourage Address Book and do a seek and destroy. [display icon] Mail -> Export... -> Local contacts to a list (tab-delimited text) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 -- 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/>
