Luther's right but there's a caveat. Record number 26 is not necessarily
#26 in the list you see on screen -- it's #26 that is stored in that
position in the database. The list is usually sorted by Company...
HTH,
Lon
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"Luther"
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On Apr 14, 5:04 am, DinoG discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:> Thanks for the reply...
>
> I did this on my personal computer with no problem, work computer seems to
> present the problem where BCM chokes on the import. It looks like it
> starts
> importing the contacts, gets to about 26, and stalls.
>
> Have you seen that before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dino
>
> "William Stacey [C# MVP]" wrote:
>
>
>
>> Not sure if this helps, but I just imported other day from an act 6 dbf
>> directly into BCM with no issues (I installed trial ACT 10 on machine
>> first).
>> IIRC, BCM will import directly from act 10 .pad db. Can't remember if I
>> tried that also or not.
>
>> "DinoG"
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>>news:F355CB5E-A0B9-45DC-B998-2289DE497B20@microsoft.com...>>> Greetings...
>
>>> I'm trying to import information from ACT 10 into Business Contact
>>> Manager.
>>> Does anyone know of a template for this? - I can't seem to find one
>>> from
>>> Microsoft.
>
>>> Do I have to do my own import? and if so, can I start with an ACT 9
>>> template? I tried using the Act 2007/9 template to import, but that
>>> fails
>>> during the conversion...
>
>>> Thanks,
>
>>> Dino- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Usually, when conversion from ACT to BCM gets to record number N and
stops, it's an indication that record N is corrupt. Deleting the
offending record from ACT usually help
--import continues past that
point.
