PowerMail Engineering wrote on 02.06.04 at 18:47 +0200 >No magic here. PowerMail always warn you before converting the database, >and suggests to make a backup.
Yes I know! What seems to have happened is that I had another copy of PM 5 on my machine which ran when I thought I was launching PM 4. SO when it said "convert?" I thought I was converting to PM4... When I sorted myself out I tried to copy my Address Book from a PM5 folder. When I next ran PM4 it wanted to convert. So just by trying to use a PM5 Address Book I nearly landed in it again! >export your whole database (from PM5) >to PowerMail Exchange format, and import that in PM 4. I think I tried that and it didn't work. In the end I just imported everything from Apple Mail. Took a while but I haven't lost any messages. At least I've a nice clean install now ;) Marlyse Comte wrote on 01.06.04 at 14:57 -0500 >you basically >never can expect an older application to be able to read a file from a >newer application because the newer application is newer because things >have changed! That's why standard file formats are better then. Like jpeg or in this case Unix type mbox files. BTW my 'demo' version 5 still opens, will it ever expire? -- david.gordon
