Entourage import is poor

by admin on March 17, 2008

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entourageI recently downloaded Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac thinking I might use Entourage to help me organize the list of calls for which I’m getting n increasing number of requests. As with everything Microsoft, the install chewed up a lot of disk space: 1.1 GB to be exact but seemed to go reasonably smoothly.

The first thing I wanted to do was import all my email from Apple Mail running on Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5), which I have set up to pull in my GMail. All seemed to be going reasonably well, if slowly, until I came to look at what Entourage had done. It stopped importing received items at 29th October, 2007 meaning that some four and a half months of inbound email is missing.

I checked Apple Mail to ensure the originals are all there. I also checked in with the MacOSX forums to see if others are experiencing the problem. None of the suggestions work so now I’m stuck. Any suggestions will be gratefully received.

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The programming isn't too bad to make import work via Perl and Applescript: I've successfully ported Tasks, and should complete Contacts this weekend.

Take a look at: http://www.wheresjosh.com/import.html

Timely tip, Dennis. I'm shortly to make the move away from Palm Desktop (the lure of the iPhone is proving too much), so I'm wondering about whether to activate Entourage and use that as a single contact app. But your post encourages me to stick with Apple Mail for my Gmail downloads (nice and simple) and explore iCal for my diary... (I've already established that iCal will import my Palm date book quite happily...)

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