Switched from Entourage x to 2004

We recently switched over from x to 2004 and are having problems importing
our contacts. When we did the switch only some of the contacts show up in
2004. We tried following the import steps to import the old contacts but it
doesn't give us the option to choose the database file in the office x
identities folder. Maybe I am looking for the wring file? Please advise.

Paul
Mon Feb 14 12:46:34 CST 2005

On 2/14/05 5:47 AM, in article BE361604.16D%aforcedanielle@comcast.net,
"Danielle" <aforcedanielle@comcast.net> wrote:

> We recently switched over from x to 2004 and are having problems importing
> our contacts. When we did the switch only some of the contacts show up in
> 2004. We tried following the import steps to import the old contacts but it
> doesn't give us the option to choose the database file in the office x
> identities folder. Maybe I am looking for the wring file? Please advise.
>

Don't go quite that deep. Select the Identity folder (usually "Main
Identity" nut it might be called something else) which contains the database
file, and is inside the Office X Identities folder.

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Danielle
Wed Feb 16 07:23:16 CST 2005

Ok, I located the "main Identity" folder from Office X and moved it to
the Office 2004 folder. It still does not load the old contacts. When
I try to import it doesn't give me anything to select still. I've read
through other postings and didn't really see anything similar to my
problem. Any ideas? Thanks again.



Paul Berkowitz wrote:
> On 2/14/05 5:47 AM, in article
BE361604.16D%aforcedanielle@comcast.net,
> "Danielle" <aforcedanielle@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > We recently switched over from x to 2004 and are having problems
importing
> > our contacts. When we did the switch only some of the contacts
show up in
> > 2004. We tried following the import steps to import the old
contacts but it
> > doesn't give us the option to choose the database file in the
office x
> > identities folder. Maybe I am looking for the wring file? Please
advise.
> >
>
> Don't go quite that deep. Select the Identity folder (usually "Main
> Identity" nut it might be called something else) which contains the
database
> file, and is inside the Office X Identities folder.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
> MVP MacOffice
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>
> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
> ignored.
>
> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
> **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
> otherwise.

Paul
Wed Feb 16 12:24:45 CST 2005

NO! Move it back! You can't move it to the Office 2004 Identities folder -
2004 uses a different database format.

Move "Main Identity" containing your old X database back to Office X
Identities folder. Quit Entourage 2004. When you re-open 2004, you will see
a new, totally empty identity. That's OK.

Now go to File/Import/Import information from a program/

In the next window choose ? Microsoft Entourage X.

If asked to find your old data, browse to ~/Documents/Microsoft User
Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity. Don't go deeper. Choose to import
every type of item.

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> From: Danielle <danielleb@gmail.com>
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> Date: 16 Feb 2005 05:23:16 -0800
> Subject: Re: Switched from Entourage x to 2004
>
> Ok, I located the "main Identity" folder from Office X and moved it to
> the Office 2004 folder. It still does not load the old contacts. When
> I try to import it doesn't give me anything to select still. I've read
> through other postings and didn't really see anything similar to my
> problem. Any ideas? Thanks again.
>
>
>
> Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>> On 2/14/05 5:47 AM, in article
> BE361604.16D%aforcedanielle@comcast.net,
>> "Danielle" <aforcedanielle@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> We recently switched over from x to 2004 and are having problems
> importing
>>> our contacts. When we did the switch only some of the contacts
> show up in
>>> 2004. We tried following the import steps to import the old
> contacts but it
>>> doesn't give us the option to choose the database file in the
> office x
>>> identities folder. Maybe I am looking for the wring file? Please
> advise.
>>>
>>
>> Don't go quite that deep. Select the Identity folder (usually "Main
>> Identity" nut it might be called something else) which contains the
> database
>> file, and is inside the Office X Identities folder.
>>
>> --
>> Paul Berkowitz
>> MVP MacOffice
>> Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
>> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
>>
>> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
>> ignored.
>>
>> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
>> **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
>> otherwise.
>

Danielle
Thu Feb 17 07:09:01 CST 2005

Those are the steps I did in the beginning. When I get to the
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity
folder it has the files greyed out so I can't select them. When I
choose the Main Identity folder itself to import, it shows the date of
creation being just recent and only a few contacts come through in the
import. ???


Paul Berkowitz wrote:
> NO! Move it back! You can't move it to the Office 2004 Identities
folder -
> 2004 uses a different database format.
>
> Move "Main Identity" containing your old X database back to Office X
> Identities folder. Quit Entourage 2004. When you re-open 2004, you
will see
> a new, totally empty identity. That's OK.
>
> Now go to File/Import/Import information from a program/
>
> In the next window choose =80 Microsoft Entourage X.
>
> If asked to find your old data, browse to ~/Documents/Microsoft User
> Data/Office X Identities/Main Identity. Don't go deeper. Choose to
import
> every type of item.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
> MVP MacOffice
> Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
>
> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
> ignored.
>
> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
> **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
> otherwise.
>
>
> > From: Danielle <danielleb@gmail.com>
> > Organization: http://groups.google.com
> > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
> > Date: 16 Feb 2005 05:23:16 -0800
> > Subject: Re: Switched from Entourage x to 2004
> >
> > Ok, I located the "main Identity" folder from Office X and moved it
to
> > the Office 2004 folder. It still does not load the old contacts.
When
> > I try to import it doesn't give me anything to select still. I've
read
> > through other postings and didn't really see anything similar to my
> > problem. Any ideas? Thanks again.
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul Berkowitz wrote:
> >> On 2/14/05 5:47 AM, in article
> > BE361604.16D%aforcedanielle@comcast.net,
> >> "Danielle" <aforcedanielle@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> We recently switched over from x to 2004 and are having problems
> > importing
> >>> our contacts. When we did the switch only some of the contacts
> > show up in
> >>> 2004. We tried following the import steps to import the old
> > contacts but it
> >>> doesn't give us the option to choose the database file in the
> > office x
> >>> identities folder. Maybe I am looking for the wring file?
Please
> > advise.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Don't go quite that deep. Select the Identity folder (usually
"Main
> >> Identity" nut it might be called something else) which contains
the
> > database
> >> file, and is inside the Office X Identities folder.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Paul Berkowitz
> >> MVP MacOffice
> >> Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
> >> AppleScripts for Entourage:
<http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
> >>
> >> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will
be
> >> ignored.
> >>
> >> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are
using -
> >> **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your
questions
> >> otherwise.
> >

Danielle
Thu Feb 17 08:29:27 CST 2005

Also, I don't know if it makes a difference but we were using OS 9 with
the Office X when we created the contacts. Could this make a
difference?

Paul
Thu Feb 17 10:39:38 CST 2005

On 2/17/05 6:29 AM, in article
1108650567.757298.290050@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Danielle"
<danielleb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, I don't know if it makes a difference but we were using OS 9 with
> the Office X when we created the contacts. Could this make a
> difference?

I don't understand what you're saying. If you were actually in Classic
(within OS X) at the time, then you _weren't_ using Entourage X, you were
using Entourage 2001. The Office 2001 Identities will also be in that same
Microsoft User Data folder, and you should tell File/Import that you're
importing from Entourage 2001, not X, and go to the Main Identity folder
within Office 2001 Identities and import that.

If you were actually _booted in real OS 9 (or in OS 10.1 Classic), NOT in OS
10.3 Panther or 10.2 Jaguar_ at the time, then you need to look for a
_different_ Microsoft User Data folder here:

Macintosh Hard Disk/Documents/Microsoft User Data/

That's NOT in the "Documents" folder you see listed in the left panel of a
Finder window, NOT the "Documents" folder you see within your OS X user
folder also in the left Finder panel and in Macintosh Hard
Disk/Users/[username]/ . It's directly on the root hard disk. If that's the
case, go to THAT Microsoft User Data/Office 2001 Identities/Main Identity.


--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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Danielle
Thu Feb 17 12:41:28 CST 2005

That makes so much more sense. We were in actual OS 9. The import
worked, thanks so much for your help. Now I need to see if theres a
way to now get these contacts into the Apple Address Book. Thanks
again.

Paul
Thu Feb 17 14:04:29 CST 2005

On 2/17/05 10:41 AM, in article
1108665688.253215.232150@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "Danielle"
<danielleb@gmail.com> wrote:

> That makes so much more sense. We were in actual OS 9. The import
> worked, thanks so much for your help. Now I need to see if theres a
> way to now get these contacts into the Apple Address Book. Thanks
> again.

You can drag the Entourage contacts to your desktop as .vcf files, and then
import the .vcf files into Apple's Address Book. But a fair amount of data
gets lots or garbled that way - missing fields, phone numbers moved to the
wrong phone field, etc. Instead, you could get my "Sync Entourage-Address
Book 2 [PANTHER]" script at

MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

and use that. It's free for 14 days so you can do a one-time export easily.

If it matters to export contact pictures, do the .vcf import first, _then_
run the script. Read about it in the ReadMe that comes with the script.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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Danielle
Thu Feb 17 14:24:35 CST 2005

great, thank you

matt
Thu Feb 17 14:33:03 CST 2005

Paul Berkowitz <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote:

> On 2/17/05 10:41 AM, in article
> 1108665688.253215.232150@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "Danielle"
> <danielleb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That makes so much more sense. We were in actual OS 9. The import
> > worked, thanks so much for your help. Now I need to see if theres a
> > way to now get these contacts into the Apple Address Book. Thanks
> > again.
>
> You can drag the Entourage contacts to your desktop as .vcf files, and then
> import the .vcf files into Apple's Address Book. But a fair amount of data
> gets lots or garbled that way - missing fields, phone numbers moved to the
> wrong phone field, etc. Instead, you could get my "Sync Entourage-Address
> Book 2 [PANTHER]" script at
>
> MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Clicking on the URL that they give, I see:

"The requested URL /scriptbuilders/Entourage/syncentourageadd2_256.sit
was not found on this server"

You might be better off giving people the actual URL (at your site) of
the download.

m.

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Paul
Thu Feb 17 15:17:45 CST 2005

On 2/17/05 12:33 PM, in article 1gs4o2q.cx8b0s1nwrvwsN%matt@tidbits.com,
"matt neuburg" <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:

>> You can drag the Entourage contacts to your desktop as .vcf files, and then
>> import the .vcf files into Apple's Address Book. But a fair amount of data
>> gets lots or garbled that way - missing fields, phone numbers moved to the
>> wrong phone field, etc. Instead, you could get my "Sync Entourage-Address
>> Book 2 [PANTHER]" script at
>>
>> MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
>
> Clicking on the URL that they give, I see:

Thanks for the alert, Matt. No one else has reported that, so it must be
very recent. There must be a problem with the server: it's happening for
every script download. I'll write macscripter.net.

In all the time I've been using macscripter.net, I have _never_ had any
problems with it, and they've been perfect about fixing any glitches. This
is completely different from the former applescriptcentral.com site I used
to use, which had download problems almost every day.

>
> "The requested URL /scriptbuilders/Entourage/syncentourageadd2_256.sit
> was not found on this server"
>
> You might be better off giving people the actual URL (at your site) of
> the download.

Only at the moment because of this glitch. macscripter.net can handle much
more download activity than my iDisk. (And .Mac used to have some sort of
ban on "too much" downloading, as not intended for commercial use. I don't
know whether that changed when they started charging rent.) Anyway, you can
indeed also download it from my .mac website:

<http://homepage.mac.com/berkowit28/>




--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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Paul
Thu Feb 17 15:34:51 CST 2005

On 2/17/05 1:17 PM, in article BE3A49F9.896D3%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com,
"Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote:

>> "The requested URL /scriptbuilders/Entourage/syncentourageadd2_256.sit
>> was not found on this server"
>>
>> You might be better off giving people the actual URL (at your site) of
>> the download.
>
> Only at the moment because of this glitch. macscripter.net can handle much
> more download activity than my iDisk. (And .Mac used to have some sort of
> ban on "too much" downloading, as not intended for commercial use. I don't
> know whether that changed when they started charging rent.)

I forgot to mention: I also like to see the "All Downloads" count! ;-)


> Anyway, you can
> indeed also download it from my .mac website:
>
> <http://homepage.mac.com/berkowit28/>


--
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