On 22/6/05 8:55 AM, "Entourage:mac Talk" made contact with my PowerBook...
>> The only workaround I found was the extremely painful one of creating >> a completely new Entourage identity, and then exporting everything and >> importing it all into the new identity, using Paul's Export-Import >> Entourage scripts. I say painful, because it took me the better part >> of three days to completely handle everything, including recreating >> all my rules, MLM entries, schedules, and accounts. It was hell, but >> once I did that, my corruption problems never came back. > > Heck, I will give it a try, as long as I am assured I can get all my data > back how I had it, what are the downsides of this, and why can I not just > drag the mboxes, export my address book, etc, you know, with the built in > export? I would like a little primer on this before I jump right in. I used Paul's scripts when I created a new identity a year or so back.... but with lots of email (database file is 1GB) and nested folder structure it was going to take a long long time... In the end I just took the main stuff and left the other identity as an archive I could switch back to when I needed to. One of the things the scripts did find was corrupt messages ... they appeared blank or with bad dates when imported and meant the export-import would stop at that message so messages after/before that point were not transferred.... so you had to be careful about the number of messages in a folder in old identity and the new... I guess these corrupt messages are probably some of the reason I was having problems in the first place and maybe importing the old email just brings problems into the new identity? ... next time I might just create a new identity and not import any old messages... in fact my boss does this every year with his email ... not a bad idea perhaps good luck... Jerome -- 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/>
