Well, I just spent the afternoon at my one client's location, doing some more Windows-to-iMac migration work. Today's lesson was in how to migrate Office Outlook 2000 files to the M$ Office - Mac 2004 Entourage app (the Mac version of Outlook). Not having any real solid info I felt comfortable using to migrate the Outlook files. So I came across a site, www.littlemachines.com, that offers an Outlook file migration tool for iMac use (and others). The app is called O2M (Office-to-Mac). The license was $10.00, so I got it. I them mapped a share on the Windows 2000 machine Drive C onto the iMac, and dragged all the files the O2M app built over to the iMac's hard drive, in a new folder I created (all by myself!). Then I began the Import process, which is really nothing more than an Open With operation where I stipulate that Entourage is to always open those files.
It went smoothly, although there is some moving and renaming I had to do from within Entourage. But all that sure beats manually creating all the .vcf, and other Outlook export files. And also beat having to rekey all those Contact records into Entourage manually. O2M would have been cheap at 5 times the price! Anyway, today's lessons involved a little more than connecting to a Windows shared drive from the iMac, and performing the Outlook file migration. I also heard from my client that the HP printer connected to the iMac, and shared so the Windows PC could print to it, failed to work for them the other day. Well, it worked for me (using Bonjour)! The only thing I figure could have happened was the iMac must have gone into deep sleep, and someone on the Windows PC tried to print to it, and the iMac did not pass the signal. I stated my theory to the folks, and suggested they simply press the Shift key on the iMac before doing any printing, just to make certain it wakes up before sending any print jobs through it. I am still quite taken aback by their iMac 24. Lynda's father wants a 17" Apple laptop for Xmas (and so he shall get one). He wants to get her mother something, so we suggested getting an iMac 24 for my mother-in-law. Well, it is actually for me <g>. I am going to go over often, just to make certain everything is running properly <g>, heh-heh. Hey, in short, Ed is right. Apple rocks! Gil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
