Error Msg: An invalid entry id was passed.

On Jan 17, 9:00*am, "Brian Tillman" wrote:
wrote:
I'm getting the same error. *Clearly there is a field not being passed
back to Outlook when the iphone does the sync. *One way to solve it is
to export all your contacts to a file (any filetype will do). *Delete
your contacts in Outlook or move them into a new temporary folder.
Then import the contacts from the file into your original contacts
folder. *They will be imported correctly. *This helps with a one-time
fix but I suppose they will keep getting corrupted by iphone. *I wish
Apple would come out with a fix for this, but I haven't seen any
traffic on the iphone support for Apple regarding this issue.

You may also lose some data this way, such as the connection to birthdays
and anniversaries in the calendar and connection to the journaled activities
for the contacts.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


Too easy. I had this same problem and couldn't seem to find a
straight, or easy answer.

Go to the pull down menu in Outlook. Select "Go" "Contacts". I made
sure that the Address Cards button was selected. From there I could
see all my invalid (blank) address cards. I simply deleted all of
those and the invalid entry IDs are gone!

Joe

That's all very well - but when you have 3000 contacts.... better write a
script!

It is totally unacceptable that importing and exporting contacts is not
properly supported in Outlook and I suggest that many will be moving to open
source and compatible alternatives..

"martinog" wrote:

Aftering synching an iPhone, when accessing an Outlook 2003 Contact with
Business Contacts Manager installed, the following error message was received:

The properties dialog box could not be displayed. An invalid ENTRY ID was
passed.

Does anyone know how to fix this error? Someone posted this work-around in
another forum but I am hoping there is a simpler fix.

Thank you.



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An invalid ENTRYID was passed in.
Posted: Dec 3, 2007 10:50 AM in response to: Johnstone Reply
Email


I had this problem too. Here's what I had to do:

1. Right click on the contact in the contacts folder and choose "Send Full
Contact" / "In Internet Format (vCard)"

2. This will bring up an E-mail message. Drag and drop the vcard from the
attachments to your desktop. Close the E-mail message.

3. Delete the contact from your contacts.

4. Repeat steps 1-3 for all contacts which are bad.

5. Shut down outlook.

6. Bring outlook back up again.

7. Drag and drop all of the vCards you saved on your desktop into the
contacts folder.

8. Shut down outlook and bring it back up again.

Everything should be okay now.

Very frustrating! I know. I'm wondering if there is a syncing issue between
the iPhone and Outlook. It seems that many of my problem contacts came
originally from the iPhone - but not all? So I haven't figured out the
pattern yet.

Good luck with this.

With all due and the utmost of respect regarding your sentence "It is
totally unacceptable that importing and exporting contacts is not properly
supported in Outlook".......

What program was used to perform the "sync" - Outlook or something else?
(this is a rhetorical question since the answer is not Outlook). Ergo, why
is Outlook the culprit when it was another program that generated the data
and likely caused the problem? Perhaps directing the frustration at the
vendor of the actual product that performs the sync and ask them why an
invalid Entry ID exists may prove more beneficial. In this case, Outlook is
merely using the data that has been created for it via an external process
and reporting any error(s) found - it is highly unlikely that it is the
"source" of the problem for any newly created data.

Karl
__________________________________________________ _
Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter
"Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007"
http://www.contactgenie.com

"Angela Hey" wrote in message
...
That's all very well - but when you have 3000 contacts.... better write a
script!

It is totally unacceptable that importing and exporting contacts is not
properly supported in Outlook and I suggest that many will be moving to
open
source and compatible alternatives..

"martinog" wrote:

Aftering synching an iPhone, when accessing an Outlook 2003 Contact with
Business Contacts Manager installed, the following error message was
received:

The properties dialog box could not be displayed. An invalid ENTRY ID was
passed.

Does anyone know how to fix this error? Someone posted this work-around
in
another forum but I am hoping there is a simpler fix.

Thank you.



-- snip --
An invalid ENTRYID was passed in.
Posted: Dec 3, 2007 10:50 AM in response to: Johnstone Reply
Email


I had this problem too. Here's what I had to do:

1. Right click on the contact in the contacts folder and choose "Send
Full
Contact" / "In Internet Format (vCard)"

2. This will bring up an E-mail message. Drag and drop the vcard from the
attachments to your desktop. Close the E-mail message.

3. Delete the contact from your contacts.

4. Repeat steps 1-3 for all contacts which are bad.

5. Shut down outlook.

6. Bring outlook back up again.

7. Drag and drop all of the vCards you saved on your desktop into the
contacts folder.

8. Shut down outlook and bring it back up again.

Everything should be okay now.

Very frustrating! I know. I'm wondering if there is a syncing issue
between
the iPhone and Outlook. It seems that many of my problem contacts came
originally from the iPhone - but not all? So I haven't figured out the
pattern yet.

Good luck with this.

I found if i opened up a contact that was giving me the error, saved
it with a slight addition e.g. an extra letter "Z" at the end of thier
name, then re-opened it, re-saved it without the extra "Z" the error
dissapoeared.
Hope this helps oters as it worked for me.

Anthony