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Open Contacts
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Locate Working Directory
Open Contacts is generally launched through a program shortcut pointing to a
working directory.
After the installation program have installed Open Contacts, a shortcut
"Create New Address Book" is created on Windows desktop. As Open Contacts
supports multiple address books for one or many users, you need to locate a
working directory and create program shortcuts pointing to the directory.
The shortcuts can be created as described below.
Create new address book
- Double click on the "New Open Contacts Book"
shortcut, and a "Locate Working Directory" dialog is displayed.
- Option "Create in default directory and create
shortcuts" is selected by default. After you press "Proceed",
a working directory will be created in "My Documents\Contacts" for current
log-on user. Open Contacts will then fill in the working directory with a set of
files including blank databases and templates, and create desired shortcuts
which point to the working directory.
- Open Contacts will run with the working directory.
In the future, you may run any of the shortcuts to launch
Open Contacts.

Options Explained
Option |
Scenario |
Locate working directory |
You have a working directory already containing data files. A
dialog will appear asking the location of the directory. No shortcut
will be created |
Locate working directory and create shortcuts |
You have a working directory already containing data files. A
dialog will appear asking the location of the directory. Shortcuts will
be created. |
Create new working directory and create shortcuts |
You want to create a new working directory with blank data
structures. A dialog will appear asking the location of the directory
and you may create new directory. Shortcuts will be created. |
Create in default directory and create shortcuts |
Directory "contacts" will be created under "My Documents", and blank
data structures will be initialized in the directory. Shortcuts will be
created |
Create new address book shared by all users
- Log on as administrator or power user, then run the
"New Open Contacts Book" shortcut, and a "Locate Working Directory" dialog
is shown.
- Select option 2 or option 3.
- Check "Proceed for all users".
- After pressing "Proceed", the directory Browser Dialog
appears with the Shared Documents directory selected. After defining the
working directory, shortcuts will be created and these shortcuts will be
accessible by all users.
Remarks:
Of course you need to make sure that all users
have proper privilege to access the working directory.
For Windows 2000/XP, it is recommended that you log on as administrator to
create working directories for all users. Though you may use "Run as" to gain
administrator privilege for program Open Contacts, you won't be able to
effectively create a new directory and select it. This is because of a bug in MS
Windows 2000 and XP. When you log on as normal user and run a program as
administrator, in the directory Browser Dialog or the Save File Dialog, the
"Make new directory" function does not work properly. Though the function
actually create a new directory, however, this bug of Windows 2000/XP prevent the directory from appearing thus you can
not select it.
For Windows Vista, you need to run Open Contacts as
administrator in order to create shortcuts for all users. That is, right
click on the shortcut of "New Open Contacts Book", and select "Run as
Administrator" from the popup menu. Alternatively you may just manually
create shortcuts with the start-in directory pointing to the working
directory.
It is possible to have a working directory shared by some users only
according to your local security policy.
Installation for Multiple Users in Local Area Network
There are a few ways to install Open Contacts for
different use cases.
Please refer to the network data sharing guide.
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