Here I was thinking you weren't going to be on the list ... I thought you said DAWN took care of that? Downer.
-- Shane R. Monroe Dark Unicorn Productions http://www.darkunicornproductions.com Monday, April 8, 2002, 1:47:01 PM, you wrote: BK> Ok, BK> I am almost done. I managed to import all my messages from Outlook into The BK> Bat! It was painful, but I managed. BK> What I had to do was this: BK> 1) Import all my messages into Outlook Express 5 BK> 2) Import that into The Bat! BK> Easy enough, except that Outlook Express only allows you to import the main BK> PST file. I have 8 PST Files, so I had to import a PST file. Reconfigure BK> Outlook to use the next PST file as the default (What joy that was), then BK> repeat the process. BK> Once everything was in Outlook Express, it was easy from there. BK> Importing my contacts from Outlook is proving to me that Importing my BK> messages was a walk in the park. I have tried everything from using The BK> Bat! to import from a CSV to a third party program. All have failed. BK> I'll start with the .CSV issue. I exported my contacts from Outlook to a BK> CSV file. I open it up the Address book in The Bat! and tell it to import BK> from a comma separated file. I then proceed to map my fields. When the BK> import is "done", half my data is missing. Email addresses didn't get BK> imported, phone numbers, etc... BK> I then tried a third party utility (can't remember the name of it, I'm at BK> work doing this from memory) and it doesn't convert to anything that BK> contains all the information I want to move. Most formats it does only have BK> the name and email address. BK> I'm fairly pissed off about it right now because this is the final item I BK> need to take care of and I've been fighting it for a day now. BK> Give me the format of the Address book for The Bat! and I'll write something BK> to import contacts from Outlook! I'll even give the source to The Bat! I'm BK> ready to dump Outlook, but I'm not leaving without my contact information, BK> and I am sure as hell not going to retype 266 contacts. BK> Frustrated, BK> Brien King BK> Arcade Game Collector BK> [EMAIL PROTECTED] BK> Arcade Restoration Workshop @ http://www.arcaderestoration.com BK> ________________________________________________________ BK> Current Ver: 1.60c BK> FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com BK> Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BK> Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com BK> Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BK> TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
