How do I convert business contact management databases?

[Guest]

Installed Outlook 2003 and imported the *.pst from my old hard-drive. PERFECT.

I then installed BCM on the new laptop. I attempted to link to the SQL for
the BCM but I couldn't find it.

I contacted Microsoft tech support and was informed that I should delete the
V1 of BCM and install V2 from the Website. I did the above and was informed
that the start-up wizard should be able to convert and find the old mdf and
ldf files in the local settings subfolder. NOT. It wouldn't let me even
browse to get to the subfolder.

ANY thoughts? I'm considering removing BCm V2 and loading V1. Allowing
that the find the database and then upgrade to V2.

 

[Luther]

I can't tell from your description exactly what might be wrong, but
reinstalling v1 won't automatically reattach your old database.

The start-up wizard in v2 does not look for any files. It displays the
BCM databases already attached to its instance sql server.

As far as I know, if you install BCM on a new machine, and you want to
use the mdf file copied from another machine, you will have to attach
the file to sql server manually.

The first use wizard in BCM v3 does scan the BCM directory for
unattached files, which is a welcome feature. I suspect they added that
because of the complications of moving from MSDE to sql 2005. BCM has
never provided support for moving databases between machines except for
export/import.