Thanks, Russ, I appreciate your hanging in there with this.
OK, so now I have a corrupted Contact file. What do I do?
And exactly how do I copy over Contacts from another Windows computer, a la
Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007?
Thanks,
CWTrooper.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Always good to provide all the necessary information. You never import and
export Outlook data unless you want to lose or corrupt your data, which you
have now done. To back up or transfer Outlook data you copy it to a PST
file, then open that file in the other installation. And never do so
directly from a memory card. Only from a hard drive.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"CWTrooper" wrote in message
...
Ok. The story:
I export from Outlook 2003 a Contacts pst file of 611 contacts. I put this
on a memory card.
I then import the same pst file, no encryption, with sub folders, to
Outlook
2007.
Then I try to search for an entry and it gives an indexing message -- not
compete. Right now it is still indexing, after 24 hours, 13254 items in
Contacts.
So what gives?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

On your memory card?
Tell us the rest of the story. Why would a memory card be in play? It
shouldn't be.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"CWTrooper" wrote in message
...
Tried runnin scanpst.exe on the file on my memory card, then deleted
the
Outlook 2007 entries and re-imported the "clean" file. It is still
re-indexing 13224 entries.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No. It's not normal. But it may be because you imported your Contacts.
If
the reindexing does not finish, then try repairing your PST file and
try
again.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"CWTrooper" wrote in message
...
I have Outlook 2003 at work and import my 611 contacts to my home
systems
using Outlook 2007. Is there a better way to do this? I'm waiting
hours
for
the re-indexing to finish. Is this normal? Thanks.
CWTrooper.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Importing Outlook data is always a problem. You should never do it.
Why
did
you?
Have you waited until indexing has finished? Do that first. Only
then
can
we
figure out what other problems you have unleashed by importing
Outlook
data.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"CWTrooper" wrote in message
...
When trying a search in Outlook 2007, I get the yellow banner
that
Outlook
is
still indexing my contact files. But no progress occurs.
I imported an Outlook 2003 pst contact file to Outlook 2007:
could
that
be
causing the problem?