On 11/5/2000 9:10 PM, "George Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/5/00 23:47, Barry Rosenbaum wrote:
>
>> What should I watch out for when converting a very large database of email
>> and contacts from OE 5 to Entourage? Is there a lot of manual intervention?
>> Are there some precautions I should take in case I end up in one of the
>> failure modes?
>
> It will take a bit of time (my data base wasn't all that large, and it took
> about 20 minutes).
>
> Once everything is imported, look over your Rules. Several of mine had the
> wrong folder assigned for filing messages, so I needed to re-select that.
>
> If you use any AppleScripts in Rules, those will cause problems because
> they'll launch OE to process them, instead of being done in Entourage. So
> turn off any such Rules until all of your scripts have been upgraded to work
> with E (I wasn't affected by this, but others on the list have been).
>
> If you use Palm Desktop and have holidays flagged there and plan on
> importing from PD, do NOT click on the Add Holidays button in General
> Preferences/Calendar! I did that, then imported from PD and now all of my
> holidays show twice in the Calendar.
>
> Other than that, I don't recall any glitches. If by some odd chance
> something does go wrong, your original OE data bases remain untouched, so
> you can just delete everything that Entourage did and start over.
Thanks for the good tips (although the rules issue isn't known, as far as I
know). Also, I should mention that any rule that has more than 10 criteria
can cause Entourage to crash.
Dan
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