Brave girl Yersinia - meanwhile we shall all miss you. Bea
[email protected] >....but I finally decided I actually HAD TO stop using CE! :-O :*-( > >I'm coming to you now from Thunderbird. The migration took me a week (I >had 32,262 emails in CE that I was totally unwilling to part with), the >overwhelming majority of the progress was last night -- if only I'd been >tipped off to Emailchemy last week instead of yesterday! > >At this point, Migration is complete and all I have left to do is "clean >up" my imported mail with the full version of Emailchemy (looks like I >need to download it at a place I can get at wireless, my dialup >connection seems to be futzing the download, same thing happened with >the Emailchemy demo) -- and move it into the iBook. > >Here's why I had to migrate... > >1. None of the suggestions kind Listers here offered regarding that >Connections file failure to open error I got on my iBook worked. So two >months or so have gone by where I haven't been able to even REFERENCE my >CE mail on the iBook. I resigned myself to it rather reluctantly. Still, >though, I persisted in using CE on the G4, where it was still behaving >itself -- until last week. Which brings us to: > >2. Last week I installed Panther (10.3.2) on my former OS 9 boot drive >in the G4. When I put my data and apps back on after the nuke-and-pave >of the drive/actual Panther installation (which included CE, which >always lived on that drive) and returned to Tiger, I got that damn >Connections error! Yes, I was certain to put the correct CE app in the >Dock (the one from the CE folder on the Panther drive -- I have my >backup copy on my external HD), but still, it wouldn't open on account >of that damn Connections file thing. That scared the living crap out of me! > >Lucky for me, a mistaken assumption of mine (i.e., that to get to >Thunderbird with all my emails intact, I'd have to migrate from CE to >Mail.app, and then migrate again from Mail.app to Thunderbird) actually >restored my ability to use CE from that point through Migration. >However, it was running off my BACKUP COPY on the external HD! :-O >Sorry, but THAT is not acceptable. It fries my brain to not have >something, especially a crucial application like an email client, not >running from where it's supposed to. That, combined with the no running >at all on the iBook, scared me off CE in favor of an OS X native email >client. > >I know I made the right decision, but I can't help but feel awful. I >used and loved CE for 13 years and had been certain I'd be using it for >the rest of my computer life! > >:*-( > >~Yersinia. > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[email protected]> or <[email protected]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>
