Outlook help...AGAIN...and AGAIN...and AGAIN?

How big is the PST?

Darryl Licht said:

Desslok said:

How big is the PST?

The PST size issue is over with Outlook 2003 and later... you can now have a PST up to 20GB!


Mister... which version of Outlook?

To be precise, you MAY...
check this out, have witnessed this many times:
You may experience performance problems when you are working with items in a large .pst file or in a large .ost file in Outlook 2007

Darryl Licht said:

Wow.... I've never heard of that. My PST is approaching 6GB with zero issues!

Also, according to the article you posted the link to this should be taken care of with an update... so if he has MS updates turned on he should be covered!

Like I said it MAY work. We have some very large PSTs at work with no issues, and some smaller ones with issues. And as far as updates, many people have Windows updates on, and many have Windows updates automatically install critical/important updates. Nowhere near as many people , however, have, Microsoft updates, or Office updates installed/enabled. So some people think they are up to date, but in reality it's only their Windows updates that are current.

MisterActorMan said:

OKAY

(...Rant's over.)
...There seems to be no pattern to it. Contacts with only 1 email, with 2, or 3 emails, get it. No discrimination by groups, businesses, or email servers is apparent...
Last night I typed in about 300 contacts from various sources I had, to have it nice and consolidated in Outlook format for easy management. Today, I'm switching the contacts from my @gmail.com data file to my general Outlook data file, and about 30 emails are no longer, well, valid, apparently. I get that stupid error when I click "Save"

I had to rant to get it out of my system. Outlook has been ridiculously hard to configure and I'm questioning why I should bother?

Please refer to the first screenshots, as well as the new one.

This error occurs when I am in my Contacts are of Outlook. I try and drag contacts from thetirvine@gmail.com Contacts and drop them into Outlook contacts. http://www.sevenbeta.com/images/styl...attach/png.gif

A message occurs asking if I want to update the duplicates. I click Yes, Update.

I get an error saying that emails must be in X@Y.Z format. Do you get that? X @ Y (dot) Z. variable @ variable . variable. EX: tim @ microsoft . com

Clearly, common-sensically, all the contacts have emails in this format. In fact, last night when I entered them into my @gmail.com contacts, there was no error. Now, when I try and drag my contacts from my @gmail.com contacts into my Outlook contacts, I get the error saying that my email format is not correct. It only occurs with about 30 contacts. There is no apparent pattern.

My file size is pretty small, under 100 mb, I believe.

Thanks.

also: last night I typed in all the contacts and put it under my GMail file in Outlook, but I realized I just don't want to go through all the troubles of using GMail with Outlook (way slow fetching of files back and forth, failing to delete emails off of servers, spam/junk filter conflicts, other filter conflicts, the list goes on).

Since my contacts were all in my @gmail data file, I wanted to drag them over to my Outlook data file. And it worked, mostly, except for these 30 or so.

Additionally: because I've sent emails back and forth, some of the contacts are already in my Outlook data file, with the same email. Example: In Outlook data file, there is a cleyva@ucsc.edu. that's it, just an email. In my @gmail.com data file, cleyva@ucsc.edu has mobile, address, and a full name.

So (obviously) I want to drag the full, up-to-date contact over into the data file I'll be using, since that is faster than reentering it. However, despite the email being exactly the same (cleyva@ucsc.edu), I get an error saying that the email is not in the correct format.

Thanks