Categories work better than DLs and are more robust, configurable and transferable.

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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.
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|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| "Tom" wrote in message
|| ...
||| 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.
||||
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|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| "Tom" wrote in message
|||| ...
||||| 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)?