I'll be a little short, sorry for that, getting late here, i need to get a bit away from this monitor :)
a) if you use PM on the desktop to retrieve and send mail but ALSO on your PB, then you will have 2 different databases with not the same messages. does this make sense? this could become problematic. you might want to decide that one machine is the master and only set this machine to retrieve and delete from the server when collecting mail, the other one only to read but not delete. but creating then messages on the non- master machine will let you miss messages in the master database. do you understand what i am getting at? if you are using IMAP, this all probably is no problem, i don't know as I only use POP. b) just make sure that you make a copy of both copies. then open/import the one you think has all the messages. if yes, good, if not i am sure there are means to get them in. have not had to do something like this, so don't know a step by step answer off hand. ---marlyse p.s. don't take it as a personal rebuke, but please send messages like this to the list - other people can then also learn and/or contribute and it doesn't suddenly turn out to be that i am answering a private series of FAQs. thanks for the considerations. ------------------------original message(s) follows------------------------ >Sat, Jun 7, 2003; 22:10; Marlyse Comte; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>b) when I upgraded, I just made a backup then copied the power mail files >>folder (the one from the documents folder) to the new documents area, >>launched PM and this was pretty much it. > >My concern is that I already have some files on the OS X disk AND the OS >9.2.2 disk (which are not the same because of the passage of time) and >don't know where the signatures are contained but suspect they are in the >same file as everything else -- I have over 500 and want them all to >transfer, thus my concern about doing it right. I'm guessing that it's a >simple copy over function once I get OSX to appear on my desktop. >However, it's been suggested that I should use the transfer function >within Power Mail vs a simple drag and drop. > >>c) are you intending to continue using PM on the desktop? this would need >>some further setup then. > >Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question. > >At the moment, I wish to continue using PM with my OS 9.22 setup as my >day to day arrangement but want to duplicate accurately the files on my >Powerbook in OS X so as to be able to send messages from it if I wish >(during those times it's my primary OS because I happen to be using it at >the momen). Hope that's not confusing. > >I already have PM running well on OS X and only want to assure that >everything in OS9 transfers without problem when the time comes that OSX >becomes my primary OS. I don't know for sure when I want to make the >transfer but have occasion NOW to want to send messages from my OSX >application and wish that the current addresses and sigs be available -- >thus my question. > >May thanks for your time in response. > >-- >Nick > >To follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, >one must first experience the tornado. > -- Sunastar >
