On Wednesday 5 January 2000 Carsten Dreesbach wrote:
> Guess I'm missing something... I guess to then see the pictures, I'd
> have to create an entry in my address book, add the pictures to it and
> then I'd "see" who I'm writing to? ;]
Yes, exactly.
> In that case, is an address book all ready-made going to be made
> available for d/l somewhere? (Yes, I'm a lazy bastard! ;] )
Dunno if there is one already, but making one is pretty easy.
First create a group in your address book for TBUDL/TBBETA people. Add
a new contact for each person, adding in the Rogues' Gallery photo.
(Don't know if this has been fixed, but it used to help if you were in
a 24-bit display mode when adding, otherwise the colours would get
broken. Viewing works in any display mode.) Open the Address Viewer
window and flick through a few messages in your inbox to make sure
it's working.
Back in the address book, go to the TB group, and select all entries
(click somewhere in the right-hand pane, then press Ctrl-Home followed
by Ctrl-Shift-End.) Select File->Export to->Export selection... Choose
to save as type LDIF. This produces a file which could be placed on
the gallery website for download, for example.
To re-import it, go to the address book. Create a new group to hold
the entries, select it in the left-hand pane and choose File->Import
from->LDIF file. When it asks, select Yes to add the new contacts to
the current group.
I've done this already for my work address book, but non-Bat users be
warned: attempting to import an LDIF file into Outlook which contains
large binary photo data causes it to crash immediately. Even sending a
personal vCard which contains a photo causes it to die - the poor MS
user doesn't even get chance to preview or delete the message, as soon
as it is received their mailer will die! (Last tested about 4 months
ago, so this may have been fixed by now.)
It would be nice if TB allowed you to export a group directly, rather
than having to select all the members of a group and export that
selection - it would be a little more elegant to do this. Also, I'm
wondering if the group name could be output to the LDIF file so that
re-importing it would create the correct group and add the new
contacts to it automatically.
John
--
you gave me something that i could touch in a world where i'd had too much
something i could feel with my broken hands full of lost ideals but soon i'm
returning to you my friend and we'll go where the rivers end in the silver sea
and i'll carry you if you carry me
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