Hello Tim Fountain, On or about Thursday, February 06, 2003 at 10:05:52GMT +0000 (which was 5:05 AM in the tropics where I live) Tim Fountain observed:
TF> Hi all, TF> I've been trying to convert a friend of mine to The Bat, but we're TF> having a lot of trouble importing his existing emails from Outlook TF> (Office XP version). What a true friend you are!! TF> Whenever we attempt to import the messages, TB throws up an error TF> about lack of storage space. I had a search of the list archives and TF> saw that other people have had this problem before, and the solution TF> was to split the messages up into smaller folders and importing them TF> folder at a time. We tried splitting his messages in Outlook down to TF> folders of about 500 messages but still got the same error. See elow explanation! TF> There are well over 60,000 messages to import so splitting them into TF> smaller groups than that really isn't an option. His machine has TF> several gig of disc space and 512MB of RAM, so it's not that. How large are the mail folders in MS Outhouse? TB! needs the same or slightly more disk space to import them, as they are being DUPLICATED and imported without DELETING the MSO mail files! When compressing folders, you need DOUBLE the space of your largest mail folder, as a duplicate is created to delete the ones that are 'flagged' deleted. Only when you compress the mail folder is the mail(s) actually DELETED fropm the folder, but it is still in the TRASH until it, too is DELETED and COMPRESSED!!. TF> Are there any other ways around this? Converting people will be TF> tricky if we can't import from Outlook properly :(. More disk space (double or more than you THINK you need) is always advisable! -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike Reality is for those too scared of computer generated images... -------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Against HTML Mail \ / If it aint a webpage it shouldn't be HTML. X Say NO! to bloatmail - ban HTML mail! / \ Ask Spikey, he hates everything (HTML). -------------------------------------------------- Using TheBat! v1.61 hamstrung by Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
