If any of you subscribers have not received the same notice above at the start of this thread by email along with the attached copy of the PDF version of the April/May 2015 AFIB Report issue, please let me know by a Private message you can access by clicking the 'PM' link beside my name above.
Most subscribers it seems have received it, but some have not as yet. I had to create 6 new separate blind carbon copy Group email lists, one for each two month publication period, in which subscribers for each two month time frame are listed.
It has been quite a challenge porting these 6 separate lists from the original PC format version of an XCEL spreadsheet of all names and email addresses used for the last 16 years, and that was sent to me this past January, and convert those addresses into these new contact lists within my Macbook Pro laptop using Microsoft Outlook for Mac as my email client.
There were just enough technical 'gotchas' between the PC and Mac versions of Xcel and Outlook that prevented an easier and more direct and immediate import of all the names and addresses from one format into the other.
As such, after exhaustive exploring of all the options with both Mac and Microsoft tech experts, the consensus was that I would still have to manually retype, or copy and paste, all names and addresses into each new group contact list, which I did over a two week period.
A week ago last Sunday, just as I was preparing to send out the report the first time, Microsoft sent notice of an urgent update for the whole MS Office 365 online program of which Outlook is apart. So I saved everything and turned off the programs and ran the Office 365 update only to discover afterward, to my horror and dismay, that ALL 6 full contact lists had DISAPPEARED from within the newly updated Outlook email program!! Needless to say, that did not make my day.
It took two days with my computer at the Mac clinic here in Sedona, during which the entire OS and all data had to be restored from a backup I did just before the update ( thank heavens for that backup) just to restore the 6 group contact list data.
However, this latest glitch that has effected some of you temporarily is due to a strange issue in which, if any email addresses in each of the 6 contact groups is now no longer in service and is defunct, that fact then prevents any other good one's listed below the bad ones from receiving the group email and attachment. Makes no sense to me, but that appears to be the problem.
There have been about just 8 such defunct email address out of a large combined list, but they have been spread over all 6 groups lists such that there are some people from each group that have not yet received the newsletter, while it appears many have received it, with no way for me to know who did and who did not at this time ... and much apologies for that.
I am currently waiting for an upper level Microsoft tech support to call me back and who will then take control of my machine remotely and, I trust, sort this all out soon enough, but the whole experience has given me even more incentive to get the entire website and layout utterly revamped such that we wont have to deal with such transitional 'surprises' any longer.
Hang in there a few more days and hopefully everyone will have their copies of the newsletter soon. Again, though please let me know if any of you reading this have not yet received your AFIB Report issue in the last couple of days.
Thank you all.
Shannon