Hi Dan, No experience importing Palm data into Entourage at all. It's asking which version of Palm do you want to import from because it doesn't know where your user data is. Also, I find imports don't occur correctly if you've selected the wrong folder in the heirarchy. Maybe you want to try selecting the Palm folder, not the User Data folder and see if you have any better luck.
Ward Oldham On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 12:42 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > Ward: > > I've just purchased Office X and want to migrate my calendar and > address book to Entourage from Palm Desktop (4.x), which I find rather > flaky with X. > > I've got my address book imported into Entourage, but I can't figure > out how to import my calendar. Entourage supposedly will import direct > from Palm Desktop, but when I tell it to do so it asks me to choose > which Palm Desktop version I want to import from (I have two on my > computer, one for 9, one for X) and then when I choose the one for X, > it gives me an Open File dialogue but doesn't tell me what exactly I'm > supposed to open. When I navigate to my Palm Desktop folder, the Palm > Desktop program and the User Data are grayed out, so I end up not > knowing what I'm supposed to find and I just cancel out of it. > > I imported my addresses by exporting them as a text file from Palm, > but that doesn't seem to work with the calendar. I exported its data > as a text file, but when I try to import it in Entourage it brings up > the dialog box to import the addresses. > > Have you had any experience using Entourage's import function and can > you give me any advice on that? > > Thanks. > > Dan > > > > >Harry, > > > >I'm not a big fan of Mail and the Address Book either, although you > >will find some in the group extremely happy with them. I use > Entourage, > >part of the Office X suite. ?I don't think there is a better > >email/calendar/contacts product out there. ?Hindsight tells me that > you > >probably should have purchased Office X when you bought your new iBook > >for the special $199 deal thats going on (until the end of the > >year). > > > >However, the fixes for your problems are rather simple but I'm > guessing > >that you have 1000 entries in your address book so redoing your groups > >is something you're trying to avoid. I'm also not aware of any rules > >import problems. ?But you must be really unhappy for you to resort to > >Classic. > > > >Try keyword searches for mail and address book at: > >http://www.macosxhints.com/ > >The site is full of tips (as well as this user group). ?Don't give up > >prematurely until you've exhausted your resources. > > > >Ward Oldham > > > > > > ????On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 01:16 ?AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer > >wrote: > > > >> I've spent a couple of hours importing mailboxes and addresses into > >> the mail > >> application and the address book app. > >> > >> And I don't like them. Mail boxes import into a separate folder. I > >> haven't > >> found a way to import all my rules. > >> > >> The address book sucks! Groups that I set up in OE no longer exist. > So > >> I'm > >> using OE in classic. > >> > >> If anyone know of an OS X mail program that does a better job > >> ofimporting > >> mailboxes, addresses, and rules, please let me know. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Harry, > >> > >> > >> Harry Jacobson-Beyer > >> Surveyor of the Passing Scene! > >> > >> http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ > >> What a strange, long, trip it is! > >> > >> remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's > how > >> fast > >> you go coming down! > >> > >> > >> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January > 28 > >> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > >> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > >> > > > > > >The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 > >For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > >activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 5674 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021222/f7e97edd/attachment.bin
