I ran this script first on my iBook, purposely, because I don’t have Entourage set up on that machine the way it is set up on my iMac. That is, I don’t have groups, etc., nor do I have all the personal info on my contacts. It didn’t bring over my custom fields into the notes. It just brought over the notes. When I wrote, “..it ran fine,” I should have qualified that to indicate that it “ran” from start to finish, without error, and imported all the addresses (2300+). I did have some of my contacts categorized, but as far as I can see at this point, it didn’t bring over all the categories. Again, it was late last night, and I haven’t had the time to go through AB carefully. At this point, then, I have reservations about moving everything over to AB on my iMac, until I know better what is happening. IYO, can the script be modified to correct some of the deficiencies?
It doesn't bring over categories as such. But it should make a separate "Directory" for each Entourage category (as well as a separate "Directory" for each Entourage group, if you have any) in AB. But you were right: It skips LOTS of Entourage fields completely. It should add SOME of the numerous Entourage fields to the contact notes - IF there's any content in those fields - otherwise it doesn't waste space and time with empty entries.
It imports name, nickname, title, suffix, company, job title, work and home address, all phones and email addresses, and notes, directly to AB fields.
It adds some Japanese fields (but will MANGLE them idiotically), department, home and work web page URLs, and the 8 basic custom fields (without your own labels) to the notes.
It will skip out birthday, anniversary, custom dates, interest, children, age, astrology and categories (by name).
It's also slow and inefficient, but won't error as i feared with groups: I just figured that one out, quite clever.
I'll do a version that includes all the missing data and make it more efficient. Also a version that does accurate 2-way syncing.
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Paul Berkowitz
