On or near 3/10/01 10:38 AM, Laurie A. Duncan at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> Thanks! I do weekly disk backups onto an enternal drive as well, but what
> I'd like to be able to do isuse the seperate Entourage backup to move
> between desktop and laptop when I travel and may need to access older
> messages on the go. I was using Email Archiver for Claris Emailer and I
> notice there is a new version that supports Entourage -
Are you talking about Dan Crevier's archiver package that goes to FileMaker?
Or something else? Where did you download it? I am the one who ported the
package to Entourage, not for my own use but just as a favor to people who
use it. So if that's the one you are talking about, my remarks below may be
helpful. If not, ignore.
> but I just
> downloaded it, registered it and imported my old Email Archive DB (my Claris
> Emailer archives from the 1998-2000) and the field mapping is all wrong, so
> I am reluctant to use it on Entourage which has my more critical recent
> messages.
If you used a straight FileMaker Import command, probably all that you need
to do, on the import dialog box, is to use the little popup menu to select
the proper field order ("matching fields" should do it). The database itself
has not been changed at all between the Emailer, Outlook Express, and
Entourage versions; the only changes have been in the scripts, and there,
just syntactical changes to accommodate to the changing syntax used in each
mail program.
> If I decide to give it a try, is there a way I can have it archive
> Entourage from the BACKUP folder that I just created with this script?
The simplest way would be just to rename the two parent folders. Name your
live MUD folder to "Live MUD folder" or whatever, and then rename the backup
to "Microsoft User Data" and launch Entourage. It will use the backup copy
of the database.
> In
> case something goes wrong, since I understand that the Archiver moves all
> your archived messages to the trash and it would be hell refiltering all
> those messages into their proper folders.
>
If you are using the Crevier archive, no, it does not delete anything; it
leaves that up to you.
> If Archiver does work, I can simply move copy that database over when I
> travel.
>
>
> On 3/10/01 1:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] showcased their stellar typing and
> language skills in this message:
>
>> On or near 3/10/01 7:00 AM, Carsten & Uni Vous Ortmann at
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>>
>>> You know there's a script that'll automate all that for you. Just put it in
>>> your Startup Items folder and you db will be backed up on every boot. You
>>> can also put it in the Shutdown Items folder, of course.
>>>
>>> Anyways - it's called Backup Entourage Data 1.1 � and you can get it at ....
>>> Actually I can't remember just now, but Jeff Porten, who chips in on this
>>> list pretty frequently, wrote it and I'm sure you can get him to either send
>>> it directly to you or tell you where to dl it from.
>>
>> It is at: <http://applescriptcentral.com/ftpinwin.php?id=215>
>>
>> I swear by it! Great script! It backs up my entire MUD folder in less than a
>> minute. Keeps a grandfather copy as well. (I keep my Erage database slim,
>> less than 25MB for the entire folder, by archiving weekly. Mostly I have
>> mail going back 2 weeks, plus "perennial" messages I want kept indefinitely.
>> I archive with a beta version of Carlsen's eMessage Archiver, which is still
>> undergoing revisions.)
>>
>> Limitations: It backs up to the same disk and folder that hold the original.
>> So if your hard drive crashes, you lose both. You still need to back up
>> regularly to some alternative medium--ZIP, CD, or external hard drive. I
>> back up my entire hard drive to an external copy once a week. The way I look
>> at it, if my hard drive crashes I'll be happy to have a week-old backup. If
>> my mail database gets corrupted beyond recovery, I will have a one- or
>> two-day old copy to go to.
>
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