I tried the solution, and it will work to a degree, but it will require touching every single group, massaging them all into CSV or TXT files, and then importing them. That just isn't a reasonable solution.
I'm still looking for a way to move the address books I had under Eudora containing the addresses and groups out from under the Personal Address Book where TB put them. That would probably be the ultimate solution. TB does advertise that it converts Eudora which is why I moved. I even paid for 5 copies so that I could convert a few family members too. But not converting address book entries correctly may make me reconsider. I'm beginning to think I should have waited to closer to the end of the 30 day trial before shelling out the hard cash. P.S. Actually Roelf, I did cancel a meeting to 700 people who I'd not emailed to before as a group. We have a newsletter, regular meetings, and a discussion list somewhat like this one we use. (Not everyone is on the discussion list). Regular email to the members isn't something we do very often. Just don't have that need at the moment. I don't believe I did it more than 5 - 6 times last year - twice due to weather. > Hallo Jim, > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:27:53 -0500GMT (8-2-03, 20:27 +0100, where I > live), you wrote: JK>> If what I'm reading makes sense, what you are both suggesting is JK>> that I need to create a single address entry for anyone whose JK>> email address I might want, > Yes. JK>> and then create a group, and then associate each individual email JK>> address with the group. > No, I'd go the other way around. Create a group and add members to it, > but that's a minor issue. JK>> For example, if a club I was associated with had 10,000 members, JK>> and I wanted to send them all an email from the club - let's say JK>> to tell them a meeting was cancelled due to a blizzard (which I JK>> just did actually in Eudora), I would first have to individually JK>> enter 10,000 email addresses to accomplish this? If that's the JK>> case the blizzard would be over before I was done... :-> This JK>> can't be true. > Of course it isn't true. What you're suggesting is ridiculous. You > wouldn't cancel a meeting with 10000 people via e-mail when you'd > never mailed with them before. The concept is that you've got them in > your address book (AB) and that you maintain your AB whenever there's > a new member, a different address or a quitting member. JK>> I couldn't just dump all of the email addresses from the database, JK>> and paste them into a group somehow? > Yes you could, depending on the database you've got those addresses > in. It would mean that that you processed all those addresses to > address book entries associated with a single group. JK>> But Roelof's images raise another question. When TB converted my JK>> Eudora address lists, it dropped each of the address books, which JK>> each contained groups, I had under TBs 'The Personal Address JK>> Book.' How do I move them out from under it? I tried cutting and JK>> pasting with no success. > Cut and paste works for me when transporting AB-entries from one group > to another, so I suppose that's not what you meant. > It's possible that the concept behind TB's and Eudora's ABs are so > different that it's not possible to do a really good conversion. > But let's start from the beginning. You've got a database with 10000 > blizzard evaders. Can you export that list to a csv-file (csv = comma > separated value), that means you've got a file that contains per > member one line containing: > first name, last name, e-mail address > If so, export to that > and import that into your AB > First create the AB-group 'No more blizzards' > Select that group and do > File -> Import from -> Comma-separated > That ought to do the trick. -- Jim ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
