Outlook::Name Completion
Issues with Outlook XP/2002 name completion.
This is the kind of stuff I normally just tell people "This gets corrupt occasionally and it must be deleted and recreated." Which is the truth - that is Microsoft's official answer. In the outlook profile directory, delete the *.NK2 file and the name completion cache will start again fresh.
However there are some people that this answer cannot be given to. So I've spent a good amount of time recently messing around with OL name completion. In my travels I found that there is a utility that will actually edit this file. (If you are interested it is named Owtlook
I have also found a possible bug in Outlook name completion behavior: The NK2 file is written upon closing Outlook. This doesn't appear to happen if I logout or restart my computer without first closing down Outlook. So if I have no NK2 file, open outlook and populate some addresses in the cache and restart my computer then no NK2 file is created. And if I have an NK2 file and run Outlook and add names to this cache, those entries aren't written to the NK2.
Strange......
I am running:
Outlook XP/2002 SP3 (from Office XP Professional.)
Windows XP SP2
posted by DataComGuy at
17:38
4 Comments:
Yeah, i think if you search around a little more you'll discover that 'Randy' actually works for the company that developed that piece of software -- which i think he usually fails to mention in his posts...
I have no doubt. He must have spent hours and hours searching for those posts and responding to them. And the software is not all that wonderful. It's really just profiting off of the reverse engineered file format of the NK2 file.
I, for one, don't think that's a file format worth reverse engineering because it keeps crapping out. MS must have not documented it because they were too ashamed of it.
I just think WHY IN THE WORLD can't the Outlook you buy for hundreds of dollars with Office XP work at least as well and have at least the features of Outlook Express?????
Be advised that some person(s) have developed a free NK2 editor program. Maybe Randy will finally give up now that a free program is out there? Either way the utility isn't as "robust" as the pay software that Randy was promoting but it is a start! google the program name: NK2csv
NK2CSV is not an editing software, it is a recovery piece. It reads the file, filters it and exports it to a CSV file so you can recover the needed e-mail addresses. - I'M NOT RANDY, honest. If anyone finds a freeware for editing NK2 files, post it, please.
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