On or near 11/14/00 9:44 PM, Bruce Sanderson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> I have been unable to get the archive to filemaker script to work for me.
>
What, exactly, has been your problem? And are you trying "Transfer to
Archive (Entourage)" or Carlsen's eMessage Archiver 2.5b3? I have succeeded
in having both work.
However, considering your alternative approach:
> My main reason for wanting to archive is to enable me to move out old mail
> messages that I want to keep and yet copy the MUD folder from my laptop to
> my Cube. Entourage on the laptop is the primary input point for changes to
> the calendar and address book and I want to keep these up to date on the
> Cube. However the Cube is the primary point for mail coming in and out.
>
> If I copy the whole database from the laptop to the Cube (which is the only
> way because of the single database) in order to capture on the Cube the
> latest calendar and address data, mail messages on the Cube will be lost by
> being overwritten � is that not so?.
Well, I think messages are kept in the file "Messages," but I have no idea
what would happen if you tried to copy everything in MUD <except>
"Messages." Any of the MS folks want to hazard an educated guess? One thing
seems obvious: You'd lose links between calendar and messages.
>
> Well, what if I were first to drag the desktop mail folders to the Cube�s
> desktop where they they will be converted to [mailbox?] format and then copy
> the MUD folder over from the laptop. Would the mail folders created on the
> Cube desktop survive and would I then be able to drag them back into
> Entourage on the Cube?
>
They would survive. I don't know about dragging them back; that will create
new copies of the folders, and you would then have to consolidate messages
or delete duplicate folders, or something like that. Another consideration
is if you have nested folders; dragging a folder will not copy sub-folders.
Each folder must be individually dragged. We could write a script to back up
multiple folders, but it does not yet exist. Anyhow, when you drag them back
they all get created as top-level folders, so you'd potentially have lots of
reorganizing to do every time you backed things up.
This approach simply would not be practical with my 85 folders.
> I am a bit apprehensive about trying this in case it fails. Has anyone
> tried this?
>
Just try dragging a single folder out and then back, see what happens. I
know for sure that if they are on the desktop, they will be unaffected by
anything you do to the MUD folder. Another problem is you will lose a lot of
information about messages this way, such as the history information and the
setting of various status flags (read/unread, sent/unsent, flagged, links,
etc).
Of course, Crevier's archive does not preserve everything either; neither
does Carlsen's, although it does the best job (except for attachments).
You are modifying the mail database on one machine and the calendar on the
other. What you really need is a way to <synchronize> the Entourage database
on two separate machines, and that just does not exist--yet. Maybe it will
some day if enough people ask for it. Can't even use a Palm, because
Entourage does not synch mail messages with Palm.
Maybe you need to reconsider how you are using Entourage. What about,
instead of downloading mail, leaving it on the server and using IMAP? Any
way that could work for you?
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