Len: Thanks for the reply. I am not the guy you know from Eugene, but
thanks for asking.....
I will take the time to post what I did to resolve this issue, in case
anybody else can benefit. I am attempting to import just over 1200 records
into BCM. The conversion always stalled at the same place, at record 532. I
thought it was due to the record, but even after deleting it, it still
stalled. I "sometimes" got a buffering error, which made we wonder if my
system was lacking the necessary memory power to handle the task. Not being
a computer geek and not having any IT department in my two person office, I
didn't know for sure.
My work around: I did a "save as" in ACT, to create a new database. Then I
deleted all the records after 530. I then imported this new database, and it
went fine. I then did another "save as", and deleted everything up to 530.
I then imported these records into another new BCM dbase (dbase #2), and then
imported the records from dbase #2 back into dbase #1. I found that if I
tried to do a direct import of the second batch of ACT records into dbase #1,
I got an error message every time I tried to access the BCM, saying something
that "Business Contact Manager was unable to complete the last process" or
something similar to that. That's why I did routed the second import thru'
the a separate dbase.
A lot of work......but since I'm trying to centralize my records into one
spot, and since BCM 2007 is a big improvement over BCM 2003, I hope it'll pay
off.
Now, I'm going to read the rest of your eBook, "how to move my thinking into
BCM."
"Lon Orenstein" wrote:
> David:
>
> Are you the David I know from Eugene?
>
> Since Microsoft doesn't officially support converting 2006 databases yet,
> this is a black hole. Typically, there is some corruption in the database
> and your idea of trying to delete the record is one good thing to try.
> Using ACTDIAG to clean up the db is another. One thing that will trip up
> BCM's conversion tool are My Records. Since they tend to have the most
> history, they can choke the conversion. You might think about deleting a
> lot of unneeded history.
>
> The final gotcha is your email address. I'm not sure during the conversion
> process where this occurs, but BCM will look at existing emails in your PST
> or OST files and link them to history. Since your email address in your My
> Record will have thousands of emails in Outlook, that could choke it. I'd
> suggest changing your email address during the conversion, then decide how
> to handle Email Auto Linking after the database gets converted.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Lon
>
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>
>
> "David Grant" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:C72EEC17-3378-4ADB-81B6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I am attempting to convert my ACT 2006 database into BCM 2007. When the
> > conversion is about half done, I get a message that says "Unhandled
> > exception
> > occurred. The application will terminate." Can anyone let me know how I
> > can
> > fix this?
> >
> > It happens always at the same spot, so I thought maybe the contact it was
> > trying to convert had a problem. I went into ACT and removed this contact,
> > but I still hangs at the same spot.
>
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