Entourage slowly eating my contacts

I just discovered that contacts are slowly vanishing from my Entourage 2008 address list. These seem to be the contacts I use the most. I?ve already rebuilt the database and when that didn?t work, overrode the database with an older, backed-up version. Unfortunately, that version was only backed up two days ago, so it has nearly as many contacts missing.

Now I want to simply import my contacts from Apple?s Address Book, which I?ve always kept synchronized with Entourage through e2Sync. How do I go about this? Delete all my Entourage contacts and drag in the contacts from Address Book? I see lots of references to importing Mail, but nothing specific about importing contacts into Entourage from Apple?s Address Book.

I never had this problem under Entourage 2004. Can anyone advise how best to resolve this?

(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Corentin_Cras-M=E9neur?=)
Thu Feb 21 11:34:56 CST 2008

<lbelg@officeformac.com> wrote:

> Now I want to simply import my contacts from Apple's Address Book,

ENable SyncServices in the Preferences and allow the Address book to
overwrite the Entourage data. Once done, I woudl strongly suggest that
you turn this off though since there are nasty bugs with this feature
and contacts tend to self-duplicate at a drastic rate over time.

Corentin

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lbelg
Thu Feb 21 12:45:18 CST 2008

Thank you, Corentin. I?ll give this a try and hope (a) that it works, and (b) that it isn?t something the needs to be done with any regularity, since apparently that would create additional issues.

Goodness. I hope Microsoft fixes this soon.