On 6/1/02 9:45 AM, "David Goymour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I sent the following message yesterday, but that was before I'd received my > membership confirmation for this list, so I'm not sure whether it went out. > If it did, apologies for duplication... > > > > Can anyone help me out? I had a hard disc fail on my iMac recently, and had > to start up my email again from scratch. The hard disc went to a consultant, > who successfully retrieved all the data. (Phew! Must get a backup system.) > > Now I have two copies of my email in Entourage, the old file, with all the > old messages and my original contacts, called "Identity 1" and the new > version, called "Main identity". How do I copy the address book and messages > from one to the other? (I want to append them, so I don't lose the new > stuff.) > > If I could open two copies of Entourage, I presume I could drag the stuff I > want from one copy to the other, but my iMac won't let me have both > identities open at once. > > Anyone got any bright ideas? 1. Use File/ Export contacts in your old identity to export your old Address Book as a text file, switch identities, then File/Import/Contacts for a Text file, to import them all. If you have any contacts in both places they will be duplicated now. 2. If there are only a few, drag them out out individually to your desktop where they become ,vcf files, switch identities, drag them in. No duplicates this way. 3. Use new scripts of mine that let you select contacts for export rather than export all, and/or let you prevent duplicates when importing (letting you either not import, replace, or keep both and open them to compare). -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
