Thanks Jocelyn - I will be back in the office tommorrow so I wll try that.
But as I am running on ost files I do not have any visible .pst files to work
with. Or do I?

However, I have also noted that with the contacts that have come across,
they all "stop" at about 2003 at which point something obviously happened.
Whichever way I brought over contacts this strange feature has occured. No
"notes" later than 2003 are visible anywhere. It just gets really weird!

So I run O/L on my old laptop on our exchange server where all appears well,
I log of & sychronise both offline & server data. Plug out and in to my new
laptop and start O/L and nowt comes up in my contact later than 2003!

I have checked my view settings but cannot see anything that could be
causing a problem. A search brings up no contacts found.

Thanks for your patience, but I am pulling my hair out here!
Kind regards
Frank


"Jocelyn Fiorello" wrote:

Have you checked your view settings on the laptop to see if maybe those
"missing" contacts are just hidden somehow? What if you do a search?

When you say "you think" you imported the contacts, what do you mean? If
you exported them from Exchange to a .PST on the first computer, you should
just be able to open that .PST in Outlook on the laptop via File | Open |
Outlook Data File.

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"FrankJB" wrote:

Hi Jocelyn, & thanks for the your reply

I trie a number of ways to get over this.

1. First I just logged on using my usual name / password onto our Exchange
server & found these missing contacts.

2. I exported the contacts both as a pst file & as csv & then imported them
into contacts (well I think thats what I did!)

3. I swappd over the ost file from my old laptop to my new one.

In each case the offending contacts don't show themselves.

4. I repeated 1. again..

Heaven knows why only some are affected & what has happened to these in the
past!. I did notice that somw contacts brought up a text box about forms but
I took no notice as clicking gave me the contact & no-one here had a clue.
Only now I feel that this has to do with the problem.

Hope you can help

Cheers

Frank


"Jocelyn Fiorello" wrote:

Can you explain in detail how you transferred the data from one machine to
the other?

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"FrankJB" wrote:

Hi, I was running Outlook 2002, upgraded from 2000 for the last 7 years or so
on my old 2000 laptop. Last 4 years has been under an exchange server. I now
want to move these across to my new laptop running XP/Outlook 2002. Easy I
thought, just close & synchonise. & connect my new Laptop. Wrong. While all
of the emails etc came over, I am missing about 150 out of 750 contacts. A
few days of copying ost files etc without any success. I have realised that
some of these contacts on opening come up with a "missing custom form" box
before opening and perhaps this is connected.....
I suspect i need to know how to tranfer these 150 odd contacts back into
default form formats without affecting the others. Is that right?

I am not particularly knowlegeble but at our server admisitrator has not a
clue about it I am a little desperate here! Easy solutions welcomed please!