[muglo] Re: Newbie
- From: Eurogarth <eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Muglo@Freelists. Org" <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:42:39 -0500
> Joe:
>
> I made the switch to Entourage, and while it wasn¹t easy to ³transfer² it was
> worth it. My problem is STILL trying to Sync my Palmtop (HP540 Journada and
> its 2800 contacts) with the Mac, but according to PocketMac
> (www.pocketmac.net) this too shall pass.
>
> For my transition (and ongoing sync issue) here¹s what I did/do...
>
> 1. E-mail was the easiest. Just send (do a send only, not a send and receive)
> all of your mail to yourself out of Outlook and the log-off and close outlook.
> Then open Entourage and click receive. Yes you have to recreate all your file
> folders, but that wasn¹t a biggie for me as I only have 30 or so mail folders.
>
> 2. Contacts were more difficult. Open Outlook, then your address book and then
> click ³edit², ³select all². Then click ³export to file² and then choose the
> format you want (I believe I used the ASCII format) and save the file to you
> windows desktop. Now comes the trickier part. I first tried mailing this
> exported file as an attachment (just as with the e-mail above) but for me this
> didn¹t work as Entourage didn¹t seem to want to recognize the attachment as
> anything other than a PC file, so I couldn¹t open it. So I used the Macs
> Networking feature (both my PCs and Macs are on the same home network) (in
> Finder, click ³Go² then ³Connect to Server²... OS-X is by far the
> easiest/faster Networking tool I¹ve ever used way better than Win2000) and
> simply ³dragged and dropped² the file from the PC desktop to my iMac desktop.
> Then I opened Entourage Contacts and ³imported² the file. A lot of clean up
> was required but still easier given the 2800 or so contacts I have. If I had
> 200 or so, I might have had an easier time just re-keying the whole damned
> list!
>
> 3. Calendar and Tasks I found easier just to re-key everything
>
> Caveats: If your using Entourage, do not use the OS-X ³Address Book² as for
> some stupid reason, they do not share information and so you¹ll have duplicate
> contacts, with only one being right if any of the information changes. The
> Contacts transfer I used DOES NOT seem to work from Outlook Express, only
> Outlook. If the Outlook you have is already on the Mac your using, this should
> be easier just export and import from the Mac¹s Desktop. If they are on
> different machines and you don¹t have a network, try buying an Ethernet
> Crossover Cable (about $15. At Radio Shack) and this should work by connecting
> the two machines, making sure ³Apple Talk² is enabled (on both machines if
> they¹re Macs) and you set File sharing to Ethernet.
>
> Hope this helps. A bit of a pain in the ass, but again for me worth it as
> Entourage is terrific.
>
> Good Luck!
> Garth.
> Hey folks! I just joined the list, happy to see a mug so close to
> Tillsonburg. I recently rejoined the rank of mac users after a long
> sebatical (my last mac prior to my tibook was a IIfx). Still having
> difficulties totally switching as I am not able to move my outlook info
> over to Entourage as of yet, though I am still looking for ways. So,
> what's the rules here? Don't want to make a bad impression straight off
> ;>
>
> Joe McGuire aka tinfoil
> tinfoil.music
> http://music.tinfoil.net <http://music.tinfoil.net/>
>
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