On 10/3/03 6:01 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Idata Pro's ability to import mbx files created by dragging Entourage > folders to the desktop is great! And it is fast. But you still have the > problem of having to manually select the messages to move, and if you have > scores of folders, this can get tedious. I like EMA because its AppleScripts > do the selection for you by date, priority, and flag status, moving the > archived files into Deleted Items (or elsewhere if you want). It takes a > second or two per message, which seems slow compared to iData's import > speed, but when you take into account all the selecting and dragging for > iData (or for the separate Entourage identity), EMA wins hands down. I agree with Allen that EMA is great; but I don't have nearly 30,000 emails, and when I last tried the beta, it ran fairly slowly. Nothing else will preserve all the characteristics of email or all sending it back into Entourage. > In my experimentation with Hog Bay Notebook (for archiving text clippings, > rather than e-mail), I found its search to be _amazingly_ fast. I don't know > why Bruce thinks it is slow. But, it is not set up to split data into fields > the way FileMaker and iData can do. I find that importing mail into Hog Bay creates one very large file with all the mails in one "record". This is no different than BBedit. And this large file takes very long to search - a minute or more. When I set up iData to create a free-form database, each mail is imported into a separate record. > The fact that iData Pro is being rewritten entirely in Cocoa gives at least the possibility of greater stability when it is finished; thus far, I've had it quit but I haven't lost data. I guess there is no single solution for all people; having this variety of products makes it more likely that each one of us will find something that fits our individual needs. -- Bruce ____________________________________________________ B R U C E K. -- 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/>
