Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Ronald Guest
I'd like to get a copy of the Crevier script for Entourage. Can someone tell me where it's located? Thanks, Ron On or near 11/9/00 8:03 AM, Nicolai Amter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: ..snip.. Also, Diane Ross has a version of Dan Crevier's "Transfer to Archive" script that archives in his

Can't rebuild Entourage database

2000-11-10 Thread Weiyun Yu
This is weird. I tried for the first time since migrating to Entourage to rebuild the database. On starting up with 'Option' held, it came up with a message saying "To rebuild database, quit all Microsoft Office programs". Well, I have only just restarted my Mac and don't have any Office module

Ram Doubler update

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Re: Notification sounds

2000-11-10 Thread Andrew R. Schmiechen
I took my modified email sounds from OE 5 and they worked right away with E. No changes necessary. I don't know if there's any easy way to edit E sound sets, but I used ResEdit to make my custom sound set. To use ResEdit, make a copy of the E sound set and open it in ResEdit. Then open any

Re: Ram Doubler update

2000-11-10 Thread James Naron
On 11/10/00 12:22 PM, "Andrew R. Schmiechen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No offense, but what's this got to do with Entourage? -A. This part is what makes it relevant to Entourage: What's new in this version: Fixes the incompatibility with Microsoft Office 2001 -- The optimist says the

Re: Ram Doubler update

2000-11-10 Thread Andrew R. Schmiechen
DOH! I missed that part. I scanned the text for Entourage, not Office 2001. I forget that it's really part of Office. My apologies. -A. This part is what makes it relevant to Entourage: What's new in this version: Fixes the incompatibility with Microsoft Office 2001 -- To

Re: Ram Doubler update

2000-11-10 Thread James Naron
On 11/10/00 12:51 PM, "Andrew R. Schmiechen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DOH! I missed that part. I scanned the text for Entourage, not Office 2001. I forget that it's really part of Office. My apologies. -A. This part is what makes it relevant to Entourage: What's new in this

Re: Exchange Question

2000-11-10 Thread David Cortright
Title: Re: Exchange Question Thats a bug on the Outlook side of things. They treat invites with no time zone info as if it were GMT rather than the more appropriate local time zone. From: Martin, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Entourage:mac Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000

Re: Deleting trashed contacts from auto-complete feature

2000-11-10 Thread James Naron
On 11/10/00 1:32 PM, "David Cortright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are wrong. There are two ways to remove an entry from the list: 1. Add the address to the address book, then delete it. 2. Mark a message from that address as Junk. Note that if you ever receive another message from that

Printing tasks: prints twice, and other questions...

2000-11-10 Thread Christopher Dery
Hello Listers, I've recently begun using the tasks feature of Entourage (God, how I love this program!) and can't seem to figure out these two mysteries: 1) whenever I print my tasks list, it prints two copies 2) Is there a way to change the font size (would like a small, tight list, preferably

RE: Exchange Question

2000-11-10 Thread Martin, Peter
Title: Re: Exchange Question Is it going to be addressed? If so, what kind of time frame can I expect? Thank you for your answer. Peter Martin -Original Message-From: David Cortright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 1:31 PMTo: Entourage

Re: Deleting trashed contacts from auto-complete feature

2000-11-10 Thread Paul Berkowitz
On 11/10/00 10:42 AM, "James Naron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/00 1:32 PM, "David Cortright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are wrong. There are two ways to remove an entry from the list: 1. Add the address to the address book, then delete it. 2. Mark a message from that address as

Re: Deleting trashed contacts from auto-complete feature

2000-11-10 Thread Ronald Guest
The problem I'm having with the feature is that incoming mail seems to be treated as usage (rather than how often I address email outbound). This keeps causing mailing list addresses to be at the top of my pop-up list instead of people. And I unfortunately have several people who have a

Re: Notification sounds

2000-11-10 Thread Joshua Jabbour
www.soundsetcentral.com ...on 11.10.00 12:36 PM, "Andrew R. Schmiechen" at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so eloquently wrote: I took my modified email sounds from OE 5 and they worked right away with E. No changes necessary. I don't know if there's any easy way to edit E sound sets, but I used ResEdit

Two questions about Entourage

2000-11-10 Thread Brian Ibbott
Title: Two questions about Entourage Ive looked at the Macintouch archives to see if this has been discussed yet, and Im amazed tha Ive been the only one to notice this (which makes me think Ive got a preference chosen incorrectly, but Ive got two things that dont seem to work the same way they

Re: Exchange Question

2000-11-10 Thread David Cortright
Title: Re: Exchange Question I dont know. Youll have to talk to the Outlook folks for answers to those questions. From: Martin, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Entourage:mac Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:45:34 -0800 To: Entourage:mac Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

Re: Two questions about Entourage

2000-11-10 Thread Dennis Cheung
1. That's the new behavior for Entourage. There is currently no way to modify that behavior. 2. Edit:Preferences:Mail and News: Reply Forward Tab: in the mail attribution area there's a checkbox to enable the behavior that you want. Aren't you glad you joined this list? :) On 11/10/00 11:44

Re: Two questions about Entourage

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Crevier
On 11/10/2000 11:44 AM, "Brian Ibbott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I¹ve looked at the Macintouch archives to see if this has been discussed yet, and I¹m amazed tha I¹ve been the only one to notice this (which makes me think I¹ve got a preference chosen incorrectly, but I¹ve got two things that

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Glenn L. Austin
One thing that I've never understood, maybe someone can enlighten me. Some people don't like the single-database model of OE and Entourage, but archive their e-mail using a single database in FileMaker. Why is that? One thing that I'm looking at is the ability to automatically "create a new

Re: Exchange Question

2000-11-10 Thread David Cortright
Title: Re: Exchange Question Not yet. It may be possible to set up a Rule on the Outlook side of things to automatically translate times, but I havent actually tried it. From: Ronald Guest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Entourage:mac Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:00:37 -0800

Re: winmail.dat files?

2000-11-10 Thread Jed Verity
Hi Paul, Did you check the OE archives on this? I found a relatively detailed explanation of this upon searching for winmail. It has to do with MIME types and RTF formatting. Cheers, Jed On the threshold of genius, Paul Berkowitz wrote: Does anyone know what a winmail.dat file is? I got one

Re: winmail.dat files?

2000-11-10 Thread David Cortright
Title: Re: winmail.dat files? These attachments are proprietary files generated by Windows Outlook when it sends messages in Rich Text format. You can ask the people who are sending you mail from Windows Outlook to send you HTML or plain text messages instead. They can do this by opening

Re: winmail.dat files?

2000-11-10 Thread Paul Berkowitz
Title: Re: winmail.dat files? On 11/10/00 1:07 PM, David Cortright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These attachments are proprietary files generated by Windows Outlook when it sends messages in Rich Text format. You can ask the people who are sending you mail from Windows Outlook to send you HTML or

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Barry Wainwright
At 11:49 am -0800 10/11/00, Glenn L. Austin wrote: Some people don't like the single-database model of OE and Entourage, but archive their e-mail using a single database in FileMaker. Why is that? Two reasons: 1. Holding lots of mail in OE5 or Entourage slows the programme down, quite

Re: winmail.dat files?

2000-11-10 Thread Steve Sell
Title: Re: winmail.dat files? David, Doesnt this sometimes not work if they are using an Exchange Server? I know of at least one case where these always get sent regardless of the setting on the users machine. I assumed there was some overriding setting on the server. -Steve On 11/10/00 4:07

Re: winmail.dat files?

2000-11-10 Thread Jonathan Greene
Title: Re: winmail.dat files? Is there an archive of previously discussed topics for this list? -- jonathan greene general manager devon digital - a division of Devon Direct Euro RSCG main 212 965 0554 x11 cell 917 716 5776 fax 212 965 1566 584 broadway new york ny 10012

Re: winmail.dat files?

2000-11-10 Thread Paul Berkowitz
Title: Re: winmail.dat files? On 11/10/00 1:45 PM, Steve Sell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesnt this sometimes not work if they are using an Exchange Server? I know of at least one case where these always get sent regardless of the setting on the users machine. I assumed there was some

Re: Can't rebuild Entourage database

2000-11-10 Thread Weiyun Yu
Steve Friesen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/11/2000 01:25: On 11-10-00 5:51 AM, "Weiyun Yu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is weird. I tried for the first time since migrating to Entourage to rebuild the database. On starting up with 'Option' held, it came up with a message saying "To

Re: winmail.dat files?

2000-11-10 Thread Ronald Guest
Title: Re: winmail.dat files? On 11/10/00 1:45 PM, Steve Sell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesnt this sometimes not work if they are using an Exchange Server? I know of at least one case where these always get sent regardless of the setting on the users machine. I assumed there was some

Crevier Archive Script posted (was Re: Archiving)

2000-11-10 Thread Allen Watson
On or near 11/10/00 5:31 AM, Ronald Guest at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: I'd like to get a copy of the Crevier script for Entourage. Can someone tell me where it's located? Diane sent me a copy. It's totally untested so far as I know. Its name includes "Alpaca" (original code name for

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Barry Wainwright
At 3:45 pm -0600 10/11/00, Andrew R. Schmiechen wrote: 1. Holding lots of mail in OE5 or Entourage slows the programme down, quite considerably by some reports. It does? I have approximately 15000 messages in Entourage. Yes, you've read that right 15 THOUSAND email messages. I've

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Andrew R. Schmiechen
My goodness Barry, it's time to get off some mailing lists. I thought I was bad. -A. From: Barry Wainwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 22:40:11 + To: "Entourage:mac Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Archiving At

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Paul Berkowitz
On 11/10/00 2:40 PM, "Barry Wainwright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's right, ten times what you have, and this is on a G3/266. And searching is still quicker than OE5 with about 1,500 messages in it's database. I'm nowhere near that. But Entourage is much quicker than OE. -- Paul

Re: How to stop a delete

2000-11-10 Thread Andrew R. Schmiechen
Scott: Mine does that too. That's good... I want it to. You can fix your problem, though. Go to Edit... Preferences... General... Then click on the Notification tab. First item on that tab is "require confirmation when deleting." Check this and you will be prompted before deleting a

Japanese decoding problem

2000-11-10 Thread Ronald Guest
We've noticed a problem displaying email in Japanese. It was uncovered as part of a migration of some users to Exchange as an email server (but using Entourage as the Mac client). Email using the old (Unix) email server was 7bit encoded using JIS (New). Email from the Exchange server is in

Re: winmail.dat files?

2000-11-10 Thread Christian Thomas
Title: Re: winmail.dat files? To add my 2 cents on this subject. First of all, why has the MS Windows team decided to adopt a non standard and propriety email format such as MS Rich Text plain text and HTML not good enough for them? IMHO, just another example of MS (windows team) creating

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Ronald Guest
Plus the database is much smaller than OE (at least my Messages file is much much smaller). Ron on 11/10/00 5:14 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm nowhere near that. But Entourage is much quicker than OE. -- To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To search

Re: How to stop a delete

2000-11-10 Thread Ronald Guest
For the record, this happens with messages also. I got a big surprise the first time it happened :-( Fortunately, messages can be undeleted... Ron In Entourage's Address book, hitting the delete key will delete whatever record(s) I have highlighted. ..snip.. -- To unsubscribe:

Re: How to stop a delete

2000-11-10 Thread Christian Thomas
Would be great if Entourage sent deleted contacts to the deleted items folder just like it does for mail so you can easily recover accidentally deleted contacts. Works this way w/ Outlook windows. On 11/10/00 3:15 PM, "R. Scott Ohlgren" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Entourage's Address book,

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Crevier
On 11/10/2000 2:40 PM, "Barry Wainwright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:45 pm -0600 10/11/00, Andrew R. Schmiechen wrote: 1. Holding lots of mail in OE5 or Entourage slows the programme down, quite considerably by some reports. It does? I have approximately 15000 messages in

Re: Japanese decoding problem

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Crevier
On 11/10/2000 3:20 PM, "Ronald Guest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've noticed a problem displaying email in Japanese. It was uncovered as part of a migration of some users to Exchange as an email server (but using Entourage as the Mac client). Email using the old (Unix) email server was 7bit

Calendar issues

2000-11-10 Thread Nick Beadman
Hi, I am sure this has come up before as the Calendar seems to be the weakest of all the components of Entourage but I wanted to ask anyway. If you have any other day of the week chosen as the first day of the week than Sunday then the month view in the top right draws the box as if Sunday is

Re: winmail.dat files?

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Crevier
On 11/10/2000 3:27 PM, "Christian Thomas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To add my 2 cents on this subject. First of all, why has the MS Windows team decided to adopt a non standard and propriety email format such as MS Rich Text ­ plain text and HTML not good enough for them? IMHO, just another

Keeping up with typing

2000-11-10 Thread Nick Beadman
Hi, Final question for the day I promise :-) I have noticed that under certain circumstances I can type quicker than Entourage can keep up. Well with the little spare time I have today I decided to look into the problem a little deeper and have noticed that Entourage will almost completely

Re: Japanese decoding problem

2000-11-10 Thread Ronald Guest
Thanks for the fast response. That gives me enough info to lean on the Exchange server admin folks. Hopefully they can find something to set in Exchange or get some support from MS on the Exchange side. And thanks for the rule suggestion. Hadn't thought of a rule being able to do that. Do you

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Barry Wainwright
At 3:36 pm -0800 10/11/00, Dan Crevier wrote: On 11/10/2000 2:40 PM, "Barry Wainwright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:45 pm -0600 10/11/00, Andrew R. Schmiechen wrote: 1. Holding lots of mail in OE5 or Entourage slows the programme down, quite considerably by some reports. It

Palm Sync - Duplicate Categories

2000-11-10 Thread Nick Beadman
Hi, I just discovered this list today and don't seem to be able to find a FAQ or archive anywhere so I will ask the question and hopefully no-one will mind. I have been following the MacFixIt forums pretty religiously as well as this problem is really beginning to bug me. I am seeing a

Script to insert contact's E-mail address into message.

2000-11-10 Thread Allen Watson
Title: Script to insert contact's E-mail address into message. How often have you wanted to insert the E-mail address of a friend into the text of a message to someone else? I find myself doing that a lot. I also find it a pain in the butt to have to go to the Address Book, open the contact,

Seeming bug/conflict in autocomplete + addressing

2000-11-10 Thread Allen Watson
I have run into a problem recently that I never had in Emailer or OE. When I am addressing a message...say for instance to this list..I often will count on autocomplete to fill in the address for me. I start a new message and just type "ent", knowing that the program will locate the entry in my

Re: Entourage duplicate contacts script feedback

2000-11-10 Thread Allen Watson
I have been working some on my two scripts to find dupes (one flags one pair at a time; the other tries to find them all and assign them to a category). Both of them seem to have some kind of problem finding all the dupes. I have a version of both scripts that runs probably better than the one

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Allen Watson
On or near 11/10/00 1:45 PM, Andrew R. Schmiechen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: I have approximately 15000 messages in Entourage. Yes, you've read that right 15 THOUSAND email messages. I've noticed no slow down Have you tried doing an Advanced Find lately, like finding all messages that

Re: How to stop a delete

2000-11-10 Thread Allen Watson
On or near 11/10/00 3:25 PM, Ronald Guest at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: For the record, this happens with messages also. I got a big surprise the first time it happened :-( Fortunately, messages can be undeleted... Ron In Entourage's Address book, hitting the delete key will delete

Double-click to select a word

2000-11-10 Thread Stewart Macdonald
Hi all, In Entourage, whenever I double-click on a word to select the entire word, I get the trailing space selected as well. This is driving me insane. If I can't figure out how to disable this, I'm going to switch back to OE. I'm sure there's a preference somewhere that I've overlooked - the

Re: Seeming bug/conflict in autocomplete + addressing

2000-11-10 Thread Paul Berkowitz
On 11/10/00 6:06 PM, "Allen Watson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I say, turning off the preferences in SpellCatcher does seem to cure the problem in the Address Book and the one in addressing messages. It's fortunate that SC has the ability to set preferences on an application by application

Re: Reverse Look-up of Phone Number

2000-11-10 Thread Allen Watson
On or near 11/8/00 6:46 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: Sorry! I forgot I have a much quicker script for what you want here; instantaneous, actually: Find Contact by Phone E 1.1 also at AppleScripts for Entourage Outlook Express at

Re: Double-click to select a word

2000-11-10 Thread Matthew Smith
on 11/11/2000 13:57, Stewart Macdonald at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Entourage, whenever I double-click on a word to select the entire word, I get the trailing space selected as well. This is driving me insane. If I can't figure out how to disable this, I'm going to switch back to OE. I'm

Re: Double-click to select a word

2000-11-10 Thread Stewart Macdonald
Matthew Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) recycled some electrons by writing: I thought this was meant to be standard Mac behaviour. It's not standard Mac behaviour. Or if it is, no other application that I have implements it, including all of Apple's software. The idea is that if you double click

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Diane Ross
On 11/10/2000 5:31 AM, "Ronald Guest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to get a copy of the Crevier script for Entourage. Can someone tell me where it's located? Thanks, Ron On or near 11/9/00 8:03 AM, Nicolai Amter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: ..snip.. Also, Diane Ross has a

Re: Keeping up with typing

2000-11-10 Thread Jim Baskins
On 11/10/00 5:24 PM, Nick Beadman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Final question for the day I promise :-) I have noticed that under certain circumstances I can type quicker than Entourage can keep up. Well with the little spare time I have today I decided to look into the problem a little

Re: Script to insert contact's E-mail address into message.

2000-11-10 Thread Diane Ross
Title: Re: Script to insert contact's E-mail address into message. On 11/10/2000 6:00 PM, Allen Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How often have you wanted to insert the E-mail address of a friend into the text of a message to someone else? I find myself doing that a lot. I also find it a pain

Re: Script to print envelopes in Word from Entourage

2000-11-10 Thread Diane Ross
On 11/09/2000 4:50 AM, "George Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/00 19:07, Allen Watson wrote: Visual Basic. Oooo! That's probably the best way there is to script Word. Wish I had enough reason to learn it. Yes, the AppleScript interface for Word will let you do quite a bit, but if

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Remo Del Bello
on 11/10/2000 3:36 PM, Dan Crevier deftly typed out: Yes, that's right, ten times what you have, and this is on a G3/266. And searching is still quicker than OE5 with about 1,500 messages in it's database. Please elaborate. What search criteria are you using? What are the search times

Re: How to stop a delete

2000-11-10 Thread George Clark
On 11/10/00 18:25, Ronald Guest wrote: For the record, this happens with messages also. I got a big surprise the first time it happened :-( Fortunately, messages can be undeleted... Ron In Entourage's Address book, hitting the delete key will delete whatever record(s) I have

Re: Seeming bug/conflict in autocomplete + addressing

2000-11-10 Thread Allen Watson
On or near 11/10/00 6:58 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: I suspect you may have to consider turning off Spellcatcher when in Office, if that can be done. Why, when I've found workarounds by setting prefs in SC? I have been using SpellCatcher and its earlier incarnation,

Re: Double-click to select a word

2000-11-10 Thread Matthew Smith
on 11/11/2000 15:23, Stewart Macdonald at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has worked this way in Microsoft Word since I can remember. You're suggesting that because it's in MS Word, it standard behaviour??!?! No, I read it in Apple's Human Interface Guideline. -- Matthew Smith -- To

Re: Double-click to select a word

2000-11-10 Thread Matthew Smith
on 11/11/2000 15:23, Stewart Macdonald at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has worked this way in Microsoft Word since I can remember. You're suggesting that because it's in MS Word, it standard behaviour??!?! No, I read it in Apple's Human Interface Guideline or one of the other Apple

Re: Script to print envelopes in Word from Entourage

2000-11-10 Thread George Clark
On 11/11/00 00:11, Diane Ross wrote: George, I tried it on an address in Switzerland and got an error message saying it wasn't a valid address. Any idea what is missing? Works great on regular US addresses. I'm not sure, but my guess is the address is probably lacking a zip code. The

Re: Script to insert contact's E-mail address into message.

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Crevier
Title: Re: Script to insert contact's E-mail address into message. On 11/10/2000 9:11 PM, Diane Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/2000 6:00 PM, Allen Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How often have you wanted to insert the E-mail address of a friend into the text of a message to someone

Re: Entourage-Talk Digest - 11/05/00

2000-11-10 Thread Bruce Klutchko
You can set conduit prefs from the Hotsync manager. Bruce -- Bruce Klutchko [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Andrew R. Schmiechen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:45:10 -0600 To: "Entourage:mac Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Archiving

2000-11-10 Thread Barry Wainwright
At 9:13 pm -0800 10/11/00, Remo Del Bello wrote: Advanced Find in Entourage = ~37.09 seconds Still only 51 messages per second Subsequent tries with Advanced Find = ~3.43 seconds Interesting. You're now up to 554 messages per second, still more than 3 times slower than Eudora's