Could an Applescript be written to have File Synchronization in OS9
run and sync your DB folders to another partition or directory?
>On or near 1/25/2001 7:10 PM, Eric Hildum at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>observed:
>
>> By the way - I have some feedback for the author of the Merge Contacts
>> applescript for Entourage. It works well, but I did find one small problem.
>> The contacts that I wished to merge were my main identity and a
>>near duplicate
>> of it imported from my OE address book. Since the Main Identity contact was
>> based only on the setup information I gave when starting Entourage, it was
>> missing the additional information that I had entered into the old Outlook
>> address book. Naturally, I wanted to merge this information, but the script
>> always merges the second selected contact into the first, which
>>was not what I
>> wanted. Editing the script was easy, but it would be nice if the
>>script would
>> detect if one of the two contacts was the main identity, and
>>always merge into
>> it (I can't think of a situation where you would want to merge to a non main
>> id and delete the main id....).
>>
>You make a good case for the main identity situation; I don't know offhand
>how to check for main identity, but I will take a look. I think, in general,
>it would be good to allow the user to pick which of the two contacts to
>merge into. I ran into a number of situations where the second contact had
>irreplaceable and non-copiable characteristics. Another such case is where
>Entourage has been tracking history, e.g., the times you last sent to or
>received from this person. When that occurred, I usually manually edited the
>name of one of the contacts to reverse the sort order! Having the ability to
>specify "Merge first into second" or "Merge second into first" would be good
>also. I can't say as it is high on my priority list, though. The thing is,
>once you've imported your contacts and removed all the duplicates by
>merging, duplicates rarely occur. I have not needed the script since I
>finally got it working and ran it!
>--
>Peace,
>Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
>A Mac family since 1984 <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
>Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage:
><http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>
>
>
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