On 7/1/02 12:58 am, "Richard Shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I import from Eudora to Entourage X and it imports contacts well. In Eudora,
> I had a number of messages in my "In" box which I had already read. I was
> soon going to transfer them to various specific mailboxes for storage, but had
> not yet done so. These collected messages in my Eudora "In" box did not get
> imported into my Entourage "In" box.
>
> I also had various other mailboxes ("Clients," "Personal," "Fun," etc.) in
> Eudora in which I had saved messages. The import into Entourage did not
> import any of these mailboxes containing saved messages.
OK, so what you are saying is that the import did not bring in any messages?
Either from the IN box or from any other mailboxes? Please be specific about
what is coming in and what is getting left behind. Also, are you trying to
import everything at once, or just messages?
The early beta's had a problem where the Eudora import would stall about
half a dozen contacts in, and I never bothered to import messages at that
time, but this problem was fixed later on. I assume you are using the
release version of Entourage?
First thing to try - compact the mailboxes in Eudora. Option-click on the
little display box at bottom left of the mailbox listing which shows you how
many messages there are in the mailbox. This will compact all the mailboxes,
and will offer to rebuild the index of any that are corrupted.
Now re-try the import. If it still gets stuck, locate one of the mailboxes
(you're using Eudora v5.0.1, so they should be in the "~/Documents/Eudora
Folder/mail Folder/" folder. Copy the mailbox to a new location (not
strictly necessary, but a good safety measure), and change the File Type to
"MBOX" [See 'how to change file type at end of this message]. It may also be
worth giving the mailbox a new name that will not clash with any existing
Entourage folder.
Now, drag the mailbox file onto Entourage's icon in the dock. The mail
should be imported into Entourage as a complete folder full of messages.
IIRC they will all be marked as unread incoming messages, but we can deal
with that later.
Try this and let me know how you got on.
How to change File Types
------------------------
There are several utilities that will let you change the file type on a
file, my favoured (OS 9) utility is FileTyper. Other swear by SuperGetInfo
and others. These make the job simple, but you will have to download and
install them (check versiontracker for urls).
Next best is ResEdit. Fire up ResEdit, and from the file menu, select 'file
info' (I think that's right, I'm typing this from memory). That will let you
select a file and alter the creator and file type and several other flags.
If ResEdit scares you too much, paste this script into a script editor
window and run it after selecting the mailbox file(s) in the finder.
Tell app "finder"
Set theMessages to get selection
Repeat with aMessage in theMessages
Try
If file type of amessage is "TEXT" then set file type of amessage to "MBOX"
End try
End repeat
End tell
Hope this helps :)
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