Re: addressbook "replace" should also do "find" -- pretty please?

Richard Porter  wrote on 23 Nov:

> Have I missed something? Why can't you just select the address in
> question and click Edit?

> I think there's a high level bug ('feature') that causes MPro to save
> the new address as well as the old one instead of replacing it, so you
> then have to delete the old entry.

> If your address book is getting too big to handle I would recommend
> using folders to group the entries into suitable categories.

These folders can make it MORE difficult to find an individual entry 
because you probably have to open several folders to see if it's there 
or still loose outside all folders.

My addressbook has built up gradually over a decade or more of using 
MPro -- and it began as an import from Marcel before that.  So the 
folders have evolved rather piecemeal, and it's inevitable that some 
individuals could with equal logic fit into several categories -- so 
you end up searching in several folders.

Obviously a wholesale overhaul of the addressbook would be desirable.  
I would probably do that in a spreadsheet.  For that, it would help if 
the various fields in each entry were documented: some are obvious, 
some are not.

Ditto some of MPro's other internal files, such as filters and groups.

-- 
Jim Nagel                            www.archivemag.co.uk



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