On 9/18/01 4:10 PM, "William Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will tell you how it looks from where I sit -- in a mere user's chair. It
> looks like Entourage files are written to a file format that cannot be
> directly
> read by any other programs. Whether this is because the other programs made a
> mistake in the past by not having one of Microsoft's good ideas, or whether
> Microsoft is throwing its weight around, I do not much care. What matters to
> me
> is that it's too doggone hard for an ordinary user to get his data out of
> Entourage.
That's where you're wrong. It's easy to get it out of Entourage. Entourage
has done all the work to convert its own complex message folders into simple
mboxes, which are standard format text files, simply by dragging a folder to
the desktop. What could possibly be easier? Any text editor can open it,
there's no problem at all. It no longer is limited to Entourage's use. It's
not up to MS to give Eudora the tools to _import_ it. That's up to Eudora.
I'm sure they could do it in two days if they wanted to. I don't quite see
why they wouldn't want to. Entourage doesn't expect Eudora, nor any other
email program, to put its data into Entourage format: it has an import
engine which will do it for you. Other programs, if they want your business,
will make it easier to import data from Entourage. Entourage has done 95% of
the work in the case of exporting message folders to Eudora. I don't see why
Eudora can't do the last 5% , nor why you insist on griping here. Go nag the
Eudora developers. It's their job.
>
> What I would have suggested, had Microsoft asked me for advice, is that
> Entourage itself provide the user with an option. THAT certainly seems to
> conform to Macintosh practice.
Oh yes? Does Eudora do that when you export?
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Paul Berkowitz
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