Hi, George. I second the thanks from Dan. It went pretty smoothly. I did
have a rules problem, but not with putting stuff in the wrong folder; rather
with using the wrong group for testing criteria. All the rules had the first
group in my group list as the test, rather than the group that was
originally set for the test in OE 5. Otherwise, seems to be working fine so
far.
I�m tentatively moving from Palm Desktop to Entourage; does anyone else miss
the Instant Palm Desktop feature, or does Entourage have an equivalent?
Thanks,
Barry
on 11/5/00 10:44 PM, Entourage:mac Talk at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> From: Dan Crevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 22:38:09 -0800
> Subject: Re: Converting from OE 5
>
> 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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