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I was able to successfully burn the files using Windows (not Windows Media Player). HOwever, when I burned the WAV files, they did not play in my car.

I have a Kenwood MP3 WMA Mitsubishi Motors stereo with cd player and tuner.

The cd worked in my laptop and in my wife’s laptop, but not in my car or at my work computer.

I’m trying to use Windows Media Player to burn a series of 5 WAV files to disk. First, Windows Media Player gave me this error when I tried adding the files to the Burn List pane: “It is not possible to determine if this file can fit on a disc because Windows Media Player cannot detect the length of the file. Playing the file before burning may enable the Player to detect the file length.”

So I tried playing the 5 WAV files first, but still no luck.

Then I instead selected the 5 WAV files and played them, and then clicked the Burn button up top and picked “Burn ‘Now Playing’ List to E:”. When I tried that, I got this error: “Windows Media Player cannot open the WAV file.” However, WMP can open the WAV file. In fact, it was playing the WAV files just before I tried to burn them.

I’m using an Imation 700 MB – 80 min 52x 1x-52x Compatible CD-R.

Why won’t it work?

UPDATE: I used Windows to burn the files. Now to see if my car can play these WAV files.

I have none of them ticked, but it still doesn’t work.

Andrew,

Unfortunately, that did not work.

Regards,

JMT

Andrew, there is no b switch. Here is the document. In Word 2003, it updates fine. In Word 2007, Level 1 and Heading 2 disappear.

Andrew, I don’t think those are the issues because the TOC code works fine in Word 2003. it is only when I am updating the TOC in Word 2007 that the interface does not recognize the Level 1 and Heading 2 style names in my code.

Let me know, though, if you’d still like for me to send an excerpt.

John

By the way, I checked with my work computer, which is Office 2007, and it does have the “Send Full Contact” option under Actions. However, when I tried that, I opened the email with the attached contacts and they were not in Contact format. Each attached contact, when opened, looked like a distinct, individual email from my work address with the title of the contact in the email subject line and the notes section of the contact in the email body.

Note: what I wrote above is what happened when in Outlook 2007 I chose Send Full Contact and chose Outlook format. When I chose vCard format, I did get the contact in contact form. However, the font of the Note was changed to Arial.

When I selected the edited contacts and pressed Ctrl + F from Outlook 2007, I wound up forwarding the edited contacts and they arrived to me not as contacts, but as attached emials in the way described in the quote above that applies to “Send Full Contact” in Outlook format.

Thus, so far, the only solution I have found (outside of the laborious backing up to USB) is to Send Full Contact as vCard, then open and save each edited contact individually, being sure to first delete the duplicate in the home computer.

t8ntlikly: I think that the PST method would have the same result as the CSV method: both would back up ALL of my work contacts and replace my home contacts with the work contacts, as opposed to just copying over the ones that I edited.

Regarding your questions:

1: Are both computers running Outlook 2003, or ? No. Work: Outlook 2007. Home: Outlook 2003.
2: Please state exactly what you are changing in the contact: Is it the name, title, notes, ? Generally, I change the notes. HOwever, sometimes I create a whole new contact. Whether I edit the notes or change the whole contact, I categorize the contact as “New Edits” and then transfer it to my USB and when I get home, copy it into my home Outlook and then delete the old duplicates (when the contact previously existed).
3: Have you categorized your contacts? Yes. The contacts that I create or change at work are categorized as “New Edits.”
4: Are both views set up identically? Yes.

By the way, I checked with my work computer, which is Office 2007, and it does have the “Send Full Contact” option under Actions. However, when I tried that, I opened the email with the attached contacts and they were not in Contact format. Each attached contact, when opened, looked like a distinct, individual email from my work address with the title of the contact in the email subject line and the notes section of the contact in the email body.

Joe: when I double click the attached contact, it opens in contact form. However, when I then save it, I get a duplicate, and so then I have to go back and delete all of the old (unedited) contacts under the same name.
The advantage to your method is that I can all together avoid the USB and simply forward myself the edited contacts. The disadvantage is that I would have to open and save each contact individually, whereas by saving them to USB and then copying them into Outlook, I can copy then all at once and drop them into Outlook’s contacts view.
The disadvantage to both methods is that I have to then go back and delete the old duplicates.

Here are some notes on what I have been doing and trying:

MY METHOD
What I have been doing is copying the contacts in the “New Edits” category, pasting them to my USB, and then when I get home, I go to Outlook contacts, and then copy the edited contacts from my USB and drop them into Outlook. The only problem with this though is that I have been getting duplicates. If I have a contact called, for example, “Office Manager,” I will get two with the same name, one with the new edits and the other without them.

T8NTLIKLY’S METHOD 1
I tried Method 1 and exported the edited contacts as CSV. It appears to me that Outlook tried to export not only the 5 contacts that I had edited and selected prior to starting the export, but ALL of my Contacts in my PST. I wound up with a file called ABA.csv. I suspect that is a file that tried to back up ALL of my work computer’s Contacts; that’s probably why it took so long to import them to my home computer; I have thousands of contacts and don’t want to have to go through exporting and importing all of them every day. I want to just get the few that I edit each day, which are categorized as “New Edits.” This way, I don’t have to go through a long, drawn out process that requires me to have to wait several minutes as Outlook backs up all of the contacts and then imports all of them to my home computer.

In any case, after I imported aBA.csv, I wound up with all of my contacts on my home computer replaced with those on my work. All of the contacts should have been identical in my test because the PST’s were identical, just for hte test. However, not every Contact wound up on my home computer. Before I imported the foreign file, I had more contacts than when I had finished. So I suspect that Outlook tried to backup the foreign Contacts, failed to do so thoroughly, and then went ahead and deleted the contacts on my home computer and copied the contacts from work.

Additionally, the font in the Notes section on my home computer contacts changed from Times New Roman, which I like, to Arial. I would have to manually change each contact to fix this. Finally, the Arabic text I had in many of my contacts wound up with just a string of question marks after hte importing happened.

By a stroke of luck, I happened to backup my C drive today and so was able to recover the PST before the importing process deleted and changed records.

T8NTLIKLY’S METHOD 2
t8ntlikly: when I went to Actions, I did not see an option for “Send Full Contact.” Is that a tool in only Outlook 2007? I am testing from my home computer, which has Outlook 2003 on it. There is a “Forward” option that I tried, but when I received the forwarded contact, I copied it, went into the contacts view, and then pasted it, but instead of pasting, a blank new contact opened up.

Regards,

JMT

I tried emailing them to myself and when I paste the copied edited contact, the only thing that happens is a new blank contact entitled “Untitled” opens up. Also, when I open up the emailed contacts from my email, it doesn’t look like a contact that was sent; rather, it looks like an email with some notes in the body wtih the info I put in the notes section of the contact.

t8ntlikly: I want to only copy a few contacts (the ones that I edit each day at work) to my USB. Can I do that using the function you are suggesting or am I required to copy the entire work computer’s PST.

If I can select only certain contacts, then if I then save them as a .PST and then copy them to my home computer Outlook and select “replace duplicates with items imported,” will all of my thousands of other contacts in my home computer remain intact when I import the foreign PST or will my home computer PST be replaced by the PST I am importing, which will only contain a few contacts?

No. I just press ctrl + E to get to the search box.

Are searches cap sensitive? Maybe that has to do with it.

I was able to get it to work in Outlook 2007. I can’t remember exactly what I did, but somewhere in options I think, I selected a default for pasting so that emails, contacts, etc. would receive Text Only when I paste material. I am wondering if I can get this to work in Outlook 2003. I can’t find the option.

Yes, but the problem with that is that if someone steals your laptop, they will have not only your laptop but also, they will be able to log into all of your sites. At least by requiring you to log into Last Pass, you are protected from the latter threat. The question is how to get that unnecessary window that slows me down to not pop up.

Thanks Peter. When I didn’t update Norton, not only didn’t the program stop updating for new viruses, but it became fully unfunctional, no longer ran scans or offered any protection, and did not allow me to log on to retrieve my cards and login details. I got Norton Internet Security 2008, which expired recently.

Anybody know how to get Lastpass not to cause a new IE window pop up each time I log on to Avast?