The plaintiff’s motion to compel further responses from Emerald Escrow to the plaintiff’s special interrogatories 1 through 5 is continued to September 29, 2020, at 8:30 A.M. in this department. granted. The plaintiff shall file an amended notice, memorandum, and declaration no later than August 31, 2020. In the meantime, the parties shall meet and confer either in person or by voice. Analysis: The motion fails to demonstrate that the plaintiff made reasonable efforts to meet and confer with the defendant. (Code Civ. Proc., §§ 2016.040 & 2030.300(b)(1).) Although the plaintiff claims to have done so by email after he received the amended responses, he provides no copies of any such emails. The email of 4-19-20, supplied by the defendant, is not a reasonable effort to resolve the discovery dispute. The effort does not appear to be an exercise in futility. The plaintiff in his reply offers to limit the search to the period from 2009, and offers to shorten it further depending on when the