BCM - Question re "Shared Database"

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Jeff

Hi Everyone,

I have been muddling my way through a recovery of Business Contact Manager
files. I am not an IT guy. My system is a standalone workstation connected to
a wireless network in my home.

I was able to get Outlook 2007 to use the .mdf and .ldf files recovered from
a corrupted system using the method I described in a post to Luther a few
days ago. It wasn't a pretty procedure; but, it appeared to work.

The reason for this post concerns a quirk that I experienced yesterday when
I needed to shut down Vista after the uninstall of a program. When Vista
restarted, I restarted Outlook. During the course of Outllook restarting I
was presented with a message that stated: "Business Contact Manager for
Outlook could not connect to the shared database. Do you want to work
offline?" I said No. When Outlook finished loading, the drop-down for
Business Contact Manager was missing. I thought... Oh no... here we go again.

I shut down Outlook and restarted it again (without restarting Vista). This
time there were no messages during startup, and the Business Contact Manager
drop-down was present in the menu bar. I even went so far as to search for
names with BCM... it looked good.

I did not set up the BCM database to be shared with anyone. There were
several new databases created during the time I was trying to work with
salvaged .mdf and .ldf files. Could these be creating problems. I just
clicked the Manage Databases field in the Business Contact Manager drop-down,
and then the Other Databases tab and was told that the database couldn't be
found (Error 2). I closed out of the Manage Database utility, and then I
repeated what I had just done with no error messages (or other databases
shown in the Other Databases fields.

I have downloaded and installed SQL Server Management Studio Express. I see
other databases listed (actually there are three listed); but, there is no
data or subfolders for any of those three databases. Would it be wise to
delete these database entries using SSMSE? The last thing I want to do right
now is create another problem.

Thanks in advance for any advice that can be offered.

Jeff
 

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