Hi,
I installed Entourage v.X the other day, and started the long and laborious import process of my huge mail database from Outlook Express 5 (Identities folder is > 1GB) After half an hour of importing, Entourage crashed (this application quit unexpectedly). I restarted and found that most of the import had worked, all folders were created and contacts transferred, but only about 3000 messages were imported. I retries the import of just the messages, and three hours or more later, found the import completed successfully. Unfortunately the import resulted in around 3000 duplicate messages, scattered around a number of folders. After a lot of time wasted messing with writing scripts to weed out the duplicates, I gave up, deleted the mail database and tried again. Again, after half an hour the import died. On restart, I noticed that the total number of messages was less than the first time, but the time before crash was almost identical... I solved my problem by using the excellent Views facility. I viewed all imported messages in one go from all folders, selected them all, and set them to a special category. I then reran the import, and as before sucessfully terminated some hours later. I then used the views to see only the Duplicate category messages, and sent them to trash in one go. Wow those views are very powerful! So problem solved for me, but it seems the import code has some instabilities... Oh, one other thing, although the import process transferred all my mail accounts from OE, it didn't keep the reference between imported messages and which account each one was received from. If I display the account column in the mail list, every entry is blank Would it be possible to correct that via an AppleScript run overnight ? Cheers Guy -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
