on 10/17/2000 5:03 PM, Dean Suhr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm doing the new user thing and promise that I'm looking in the help before
> writing these queries ...
>
> 1) I imported nearly a thousand contacts from OE. When I type names in the
> addressing fields the names and addresses all autofill as I'm used to. BUT
> - I cannot see them in the address book. I can't see any obvious
> indications of a filter being on. The eraser for filters is grayed out.
> Any thoughts?
Well, I imported about the same number and they all show up. Odd yours
don't. One stupid thought: Did you have a bunch of blank names, by chance,
and they are sorted to the top? Or blank records? What happens when you
filter on some name you know is there? Do you see anything show up? Play
around with the column headers, clicking them for differing sorts, to see if
anything shows. At the bottom of the Address Book window, how many items are
indicated? Mine, for instance, says, "1725 items displayed, 1 selected".
>
> 2) Also - is there an easy way to set up a global view for folders in terms
> of the column that they show and the sequence. I know that a sub-folder
> inherits it's view from the parent folder - but this was all imported from
> OE and the views are gone.
>
Good question; I don't know.
> 3) Finally - Somewhere in the import process, which I repeated several times
> I ended up with double mailing list instructions. I deleted every other one
> - now it turns out that nearly every mailing rule is directing messages to
> the wrong folder, and several of my user rules are also pointed to the wrong
> folders. It sure would be nice to have some sort of debugging log that
> tells what rules acted on a given message - even if it is a special
> diagnostic mode the is enable only part of the time.
>
Some messages have discussed problems with importing rules. The only
suggestion is deleting them <all> and manually recreating them, which
probably will result in a slimmer rules list if you do it. I lucked out;
mine seem to have imported fine. I have had to reset the folders some things
move to, and to set categories correctly where OE was setting colors, and I
needed (of course) to rewrite any Applescripts that were being invoked
(often just changing the program name). Other than that, my rules seem to be
working.
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