On 10/22/00 8:35 AM, "Pete Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, I meant to say "drag the messages to a folder on the desktop".
>>
>> I have the same problem, Allen. I just drag the folders to the desktop, quit
>> En'rage, fire up OE and drag the messages from the desktop back into the
>> appropriate folders of OE and then run eMA2.5b3. Kind of clunky, but it
>> works. :-)
But you were right in the first place, although it seems you didn't know it.
In Entourage, unlike OE, you can indeed drag an entire folder, or custom
view, to the desktop, and it gets copied and saved as an mbox file. It keeps
all the history and links information for each message as well. You can then
delete the original in Entourage. You just drag the hard disk mbox file
back into Entourage if you want to look for a particular message.
But one word of advice: when preparing to do so, if you are dragging certain
groups of messages from one folder (like the Inbox) to move them to a new
folder which you will then drag/archive in this way, be conservative in how
many messages you move at once. Keep it to about 500.
When I imported all my OE messages into Entourage (probably about 12,000
messages), I found Entourage slowing down a lot. So I prepared to do this
do-it-yourself archiving. The OE import had moved all the messages into the
folder of the same name in Entourage, rather than to a special "OE import"
folder, keeping all their history, etc. But that meant that my Inbox and
Sent Items folders now each had about 5000 messages. So I had to move the
older messages to a new folder of "Old Inbox Messages" etc., for dragging
out. I moved about 2000 messages at a time from the Inbox and Sent Items
folders to new "archive" folders (to begin with, within Entourage). The
trouble was, they disappeared into some limbo and were nowhere to be found.
When I tried to do a complex rebuild, I got an error and couldn't open
Entourage at all. Finally someone at Microsoft was able to open my database
only by increasing Entourage's memory to 256 MB! Then the rebuild worked
fine. Afterwards, I moved my messages 500 at a time, and had no problem.
Those dragged folders are now mbox files, sitting happily in my Microsoft
User data folder. It may not be as good as an Archive solution like John
Carlsen's because I need to drag a folder back for searching for particular
messages. But Entourage's Find is very fast, so I don't find this a
problem. I just drag the folder out again afterwards, and compact ("typical
rebuild") my database again afterwards. Entourage is incredibly faster now
since I removed those 12,000 messages. I will keep doing this every few
months.
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Paul Berkowitz
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