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Dave The Brain
Hi All!
I work in an office with three computers, the main one with most of
the data on and two others. The three computers are directly networked
to each other through a modem/router box..
We currently have OE6 but will shortly move to Outlook. Before I move,
I could really do with some help with a question.
It used to be one of my jobs to enter new contacts into the Address
Book on each computer. Then I would have to run regular checks to make
sure no-one else had been entering data and that the address books
were all up to date. Eventually I got bored with this and tried to
find a better way to do this. I eventually figured out that the
Address Book for each computer was stored in a certain location on the
individual PC. However, it should be possible to treat that folder
like any other on the network and link to it from the other computers.
At that point I was able to read and write directly to the address
book from any computer on the network.
However, I was then stuck with two address books: An old one on the
individual computers and a link to the current one on the main
computer. The location that OE searches for its Address Book is
stored in the Registry. So I looked through the registry, found the
location of the folder and changed the location data to that of the
address book on the main computer. Now when I open OE on one of the
computers, the Address Book that comes up is the one on the main
computer. I can then update one address book and have all the
computers read it.
So, now that we are changing to Outlook, I would very much like to be
able to access the one Address Book. Is there any reason why I can't
do that?
Additionally, I am toying with the idea of setting all the computers
to read and write emails on the main computer's email folders.
However, I am concerned about overwriting the existing email folders.
The other computers have no downloaded emails and only sent ones. If I
tell the two minor computers to read/write their email from the main
computer's store would this overwrite emails on the main computer
store?
Received emails should be no problem, but each computer would have
different emails in its sent file. So I'm thinking these will need
collecting together and adding to the main computer's sent file
(possibly as sub files indicating which computer it was sent from).
Will the Outlook import programmer sort this out for me? Just to
import files from other computer's sent folders?
Thanks all for your help.
Cheers
Dave
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I work in an office with three computers, the main one with most of
the data on and two others. The three computers are directly networked
to each other through a modem/router box..
We currently have OE6 but will shortly move to Outlook. Before I move,
I could really do with some help with a question.
It used to be one of my jobs to enter new contacts into the Address
Book on each computer. Then I would have to run regular checks to make
sure no-one else had been entering data and that the address books
were all up to date. Eventually I got bored with this and tried to
find a better way to do this. I eventually figured out that the
Address Book for each computer was stored in a certain location on the
individual PC. However, it should be possible to treat that folder
like any other on the network and link to it from the other computers.
At that point I was able to read and write directly to the address
book from any computer on the network.
However, I was then stuck with two address books: An old one on the
individual computers and a link to the current one on the main
computer. The location that OE searches for its Address Book is
stored in the Registry. So I looked through the registry, found the
location of the folder and changed the location data to that of the
address book on the main computer. Now when I open OE on one of the
computers, the Address Book that comes up is the one on the main
computer. I can then update one address book and have all the
computers read it.
So, now that we are changing to Outlook, I would very much like to be
able to access the one Address Book. Is there any reason why I can't
do that?
Additionally, I am toying with the idea of setting all the computers
to read and write emails on the main computer's email folders.
However, I am concerned about overwriting the existing email folders.
The other computers have no downloaded emails and only sent ones. If I
tell the two minor computers to read/write their email from the main
computer's store would this overwrite emails on the main computer
store?
Received emails should be no problem, but each computer would have
different emails in its sent file. So I'm thinking these will need
collecting together and adding to the main computer's sent file
(possibly as sub files indicating which computer it was sent from).
Will the Outlook import programmer sort this out for me? Just to
import files from other computer's sent folders?
Thanks all for your help.
Cheers
Dave
Is there any way of