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We currently are using ACT! 6.0, a 5 user network license. We need to expand it, does anyone know if I can purchase another 5 network license from Ebay and just plug it in to the existing netw...
I am setting up ACT! 2000 to use with Internet mail. In the Email Setup Wizard I have entered the following: Username: My Yahoo username Outgoing SMTP server: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com incom...
Ive got an Act 2008 database which seems to take ages to load into Calendar (around 40 seconds). It was running in a server/client environment, but gave up with that!!!!! I copied everyt...
The host and clients can all start ACT and connect to the database. Once app loads, you can cycle through contacts just fine from any of the PC's. If any users, including the HOST tries to swi...
I have a customer that just got a new computer with windows Vista and she tried to install ACT! 4.0 on to it.  Obviously that application is so old that it is incompatable.  I need to know how...
I have several users, each having a licensed copy of Act 10 installed on their machines. The database itself resides on a separate workstation, and all works fine when they are in the office,...
I am trying to figure out a way to back up my Act! database automatically.  I'm currently  using Backup Exec, but it seems the files I was backing up wasn't creating a true backup.  Now we're ...
After reinstalling WinXP Pro on a workstation, I found this user cannot access a shared database which had not been a problem before. Other users have no problem. I even had the user create a ...
I am not finding a work around to this issue. Any network device connected to the same network as our ACT server (XP Pro OS) has full read/write access to all data in our shared db. Sage suppo...
I have Act 2006! installed on a Windows 2003 Server with hot fix four and hot fix five applied. I set up a test database on a share on the server. Sharing is enabled  through Tools, Database M...
Hi, we have upgraded from Act 8 -> Act 2009. All is working fine apart from a Vista Laptop. When he tries to Mail merger he gets an error. - "Unable to cast COM object of type 'Microso...
I have a Vista Business laptop running ACT! 11 connected to a Win2K3 server over a VPN. Can see the database but if it tries to sync it gets the message "ACT! is unable to connect to the sync ...
I fax from ACT 2009 which is linked to fax admin and to Win fax , I haven't had a problem until this month . Every month I do a mass fax to all my customers , This month a few went tru then a ...
Experts! I  have a client with ACT Version 11. We have moved from a peer to peer WinXP network to a Windows SBS domain. I have ACT working on the server and all is operating OK there. Ho...
Hi, I have a adf database on ACT 2006, and i need to somehow import that database into another program which only reads .dbf. Anyway this can be done?
I have a client that is using ACT! 9 and just upgraded Office from 2003 to 2007.  In the past he would hit an "Export to Excel" button to export the data he's looking at in ACT! and it open Ex...
I am trying to do a Restore As of an exisiting ACT database backup from a 32-bit version of Server 2003 onto a 64-bit version of Server 2008. I've followed ACT's Installation instructions on ...
Here is the scenerio: I want to use Act! as the CRM solution for the real estate agency. I also want the agents to have their act data on their phone. The main phones used by the agents are ei...
I am accessing the ACT! database in Crystal reports, and I want to link a contact to a group but I can't find a field in the contact table that identifies it as part of a group.  How does ACT ...
We are using Act! v6 in our office and my boss is asking me to find out if it's possible to see when a contact record was created. There's a dispute that the contact in question was deleted an...
I recently movedan ACT databasetoa new server and am getting the following errors. Act seems to be working fine but everytime i reboot the server it seems it's looking for some old filesthat a...
A client of ours is using 'Handheld Contact' to sync their Act contacts and appointments to a Blackberry phone but they are having some issues with the stability of the program. Can anyone rec...
Hi Guys, I've moved an ACT! database to a new server and though that it was just a flat file and so would be able to point the clients to the new location but it errors saying it cannot acc...
Hi, I need to move ACT! by Sage Premium 2009 (11.0) to a new server and would like to know if these instructions are vaild. I have remote users with thier own cut of the database who Sync b...
Hi.   I am trying to share a database from one computer on my LAN to another.  All of my firewalls are off.  I am able to see the database folder on the network, and have copied the .pad fi...