....but I finally decided I actually HAD TO stop using CE! :-O :*-(
I'm coming to you now from Thunderbird. The migration took me a week (I
had 32,262 emails in CE that I was totally unwilling to part with), the
overwhelming majority of the progress was last night -- if only I'd been
tipped off to Emailchemy last week instead of yesterday!
At this point, Migration is complete and all I have left to do is "clean
up" my imported mail with the full version of Emailchemy (looks like I
need to download it at a place I can get at wireless, my dialup
connection seems to be futzing the download, same thing happened with
the Emailchemy demo) -- and move it into the iBook.
Here's why I had to migrate...
1. None of the suggestions kind Listers here offered regarding that
Connections file failure to open error I got on my iBook worked. So two
months or so have gone by where I haven't been able to even REFERENCE my
CE mail on the iBook. I resigned myself to it rather reluctantly. Still,
though, I persisted in using CE on the G4, where it was still behaving
itself -- until last week. Which brings us to:
2. Last week I installed Panther (10.3.2) on my former OS 9 boot drive
in the G4. When I put my data and apps back on after the nuke-and-pave
of the drive/actual Panther installation (which included CE, which
always lived on that drive) and returned to Tiger, I got that damn
Connections error! Yes, I was certain to put the correct CE app in the
Dock (the one from the CE folder on the Panther drive -- I have my
backup copy on my external HD), but still, it wouldn't open on account
of that damn Connections file thing. That scared the living crap out of me!
Lucky for me, a mistaken assumption of mine (i.e., that to get to
Thunderbird with all my emails intact, I'd have to migrate from CE to
Mail.app, and then migrate again from Mail.app to Thunderbird) actually
restored my ability to use CE from that point through Migration.
However, it was running off my BACKUP COPY on the external HD! :-O
Sorry, but THAT is not acceptable. It fries my brain to not have
something, especially a crucial application like an email client, not
running from where it's supposed to. That, combined with the no running
at all on the iBook, scared me off CE in favor of an OS X native email
client.
I know I made the right decision, but I can't help but feel awful. I
used and loved CE for 13 years and had been certain I'd be using it for
the rest of my computer life!
:*-(
~Yersinia.
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