Members of Distribution List cannot be found

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I moved the location of my PST file from one location to another on our
network, and everything works fine except for my distribution lists. If I
click on "Update Now", the window pops up and tells me that "One or more
members of this distribution list cannot be found". If I click on "try to
repair", all of my contacts change from the little address card with a person
on it to a plain address card. As I understand it, the distribution list
doesn't know where to find the contacts. I've had similar problems with this
before, and the only solution I found was to recreate all my distribution
lists. Is there some addtional file that needs to be relocated (such as the
NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?
 
Moving a PST will break all DL's. So will lots of other things. Most of us
don't use them for that reason.
 
The funny thing is that I've moved these files around before, and not had
this problem. In fact, I copy my PST file from our server over to my laptop
every Friday, then back again every Monday. I've been doing that for months.
Why would moving it from one location on the server to another behave
differently than between the server and a laptop?


Russ Valentine said:
Moving a PST will break all DL's. So will lots of other things. Most of us
don't use them for that reason.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tom said:
I moved the location of my PST file from one location to another on our
network, and everything works fine except for my distribution lists. If I
click on "Update Now", the window pops up and tells me that "One or more
members of this distribution list cannot be found". If I click on "try to
repair", all of my contacts change from the little address card with a
person
on it to a plain address card. As I understand it, the distribution list
doesn't know where to find the contacts. I've had similar problems with
this
before, and the only solution I found was to recreate all my distribution
lists. Is there some addtional file that needs to be relocated (such as
the
NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?
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Not enough information to posit a guess. DL's lose their connection to their
member Contacts whenever you move the data file. It is one of many bugs that
keep DL's from ever being a useful feature. Everyone I know has abandoned
them.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tom said:
The funny thing is that I've moved these files around before, and not had
this problem. In fact, I copy my PST file from our server over to my
laptop
every Friday, then back again every Monday. I've been doing that for
months.
Why would moving it from one location on the server to another behave
differently than between the server and a laptop?


Russ Valentine said:
Moving a PST will break all DL's. So will lots of other things. Most of
us
don't use them for that reason.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tom said:
I moved the location of my PST file from one location to another on our
network, and everything works fine except for my distribution lists. If
I
click on "Update Now", the window pops up and tells me that "One or
more
members of this distribution list cannot be found". If I click on "try
to
repair", all of my contacts change from the little address card with a
person
on it to a plain address card. As I understand it, the distribution
list
doesn't know where to find the contacts. I've had similar problems with
this
before, and the only solution I found was to recreate all my
distribution
lists. Is there some addtional file that needs to be relocated (such as
the
NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
What do you recommend using in their place? I maintain two groups of
contacts, each of about 275 people. One is my media list, broken up into 8
distribution lists based on different types. The other is a similar list of
contacts broken up into 9 different groups.

Thanks,
Tom


Russ Valentine said:
Not enough information to posit a guess. DL's lose their connection to their
member Contacts whenever you move the data file. It is one of many bugs that
keep DL's from ever being a useful feature. Everyone I know has abandoned
them.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Tom said:
The funny thing is that I've moved these files around before, and not had
this problem. In fact, I copy my PST file from our server over to my
laptop
every Friday, then back again every Monday. I've been doing that for
months.
Why would moving it from one location on the server to another behave
differently than between the server and a laptop?


Russ Valentine said:
Moving a PST will break all DL's. So will lots of other things. Most of
us
don't use them for that reason.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I moved the location of my PST file from one location to another on our
network, and everything works fine except for my distribution lists. If
I
click on "Update Now", the window pops up and tells me that "One or
more
members of this distribution list cannot be found". If I click on "try
to
repair", all of my contacts change from the little address card with a
person
on it to a plain address card. As I understand it, the distribution
list
doesn't know where to find the contacts. I've had similar problems with
this
before, and the only solution I found was to recreate all my
distribution
lists. Is there some addtional file that needs to be relocated (such as
the
NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Categories work better than DLs and are more robust, configurable and transferable.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Tom asked:

| What do you recommend using in their place? I maintain two groups of
| contacts, each of about 275 people. One is my media list, broken up
| into 8 distribution lists based on different types. The other is a
| similar list of contacts broken up into 9 different groups.
|
| Thanks,
| Tom
|
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Not enough information to posit a guess. DL's lose their connection
|| to their member Contacts whenever you move the data file. It is one
|| of many bugs that keep DL's from ever being a useful feature.
|| Everyone I know has abandoned them.
|| --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| The funny thing is that I've moved these files around before, and
||| not had this problem. In fact, I copy my PST file from our server
||| over to my laptop
||| every Friday, then back again every Monday. I've been doing that for
||| months.
||| Why would moving it from one location on the server to another
||| behave differently than between the server and a laptop?
|||
|||
||| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Moving a PST will break all DL's. So will lots of other things.
|||| Most of us
|||| don't use them for that reason.
||||
|||| --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| I moved the location of my PST file from one location to another
||||| on our network, and everything works fine except for my
||||| distribution lists. If I
||||| click on "Update Now", the window pops up and tells me that "One
||||| or more
||||| members of this distribution list cannot be found". If I click on
||||| "try to
||||| repair", all of my contacts change from the little address card
||||| with a person
||||| on it to a plain address card. As I understand it, the
||||| distribution list
||||| doesn't know where to find the contacts. I've had similar
||||| problems with this
||||| before, and the only solution I found was to recreate all my
||||| distribution
||||| lists. Is there some addtional file that needs to be relocated
||||| (such as the
||||| NK2 file which stores the auto complete name suggestion)?
 
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