It is a frequent occurrence. Outlook's autocompletion feature was poorly
implemented. Microsoft has done nothing to either acknowledge or correct the
problem.
If you are lucky enough not to encounter another error, the cache will hold
1000 entries before it starts deleting entries in FIFO fashion.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"SBHOMES" wrote in message
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Hmmmmm.....Very interesting. Stinks that you don't get some sort of
warning
or something to indicate it is going to stop and completely wipe out what
had
been saved. Does this occur often?

Oh, by the way, thanks for the info on how to work on retrieving the info.
I didn't quite restore the current NK2 file in my profile, though.
Instead,
I copied the NK2 file from another profile on this computer which I had
used
for several months prior to setting up this current second one and posted
that file in this current profile's account to overwrite what was there.
The
old one at least had some addresses I still currenlty use, so all is not
completely lost. I just have to work on updating it again.
Am I to expect this "crash" to happen again at some point? Is there a
specific limit as to how many addresses it can hold before the function
quits
saving and seemingly wipes all others out?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

What happens is that Outlook stops writing to the file correctly.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"SBHOMES" wrote in message
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THanks!
What can cause this to become lost? I found the nk2 file for my user
profile and it said it had recently been modified. I didn't knowingly
modify
it and no other person was here to modifiy it at that time, that I know
of.
What do you suppose could have happened?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

The connection to the autocompletion cache is very fragile in Outlook
and
is
frequently lost. The only way to repair it is with third party
softwa
http://www.ingressor.com/nk2_recovery_info.htm
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"SBHOMES" wrote in message
...
At one time, in fact, a few days ago,the autocomplete was
functioning
fine
for my Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 version. I left my work
computer
Friday
with things working fine. Today, Monday, the Autocomplete still
functions,
but all of the email addresses that had automatically been saved
over
several
months are gone. It is like I am starting from scratch. The thing
is,
I
have not made any recent modifications, removed any programs, etc.
between
then and now that could explain the mysterious disappearance of my
email
address list. I did not come in to work at all over the weekend!
PLEASE
HELP!