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Data import from Entouarge 2001 to Entourage v.X Apps
If you organize your life in Entourage 2001 - Rules, Contacts, Calendar entries, and, of course, mail - then you'd like to carry them with you when you make the switch from Office 2001 to X.

No problem, I'll just save my Microsoft User Data, (a folder with the databases for your information, located in the Documents folder on your System drive in OS9) and all will be fine.

Not really...

Problem
Entourage for X only gives you two options to import - from a text file, or from a program (well, there's Import Holidays, but it's not really useful in this case). Neither one will even give you a dialog to point at your old database, if you've just done a clean install. If you choose Import from Program, and select Entourage 2001, it will say there's no program from which to import. Of course there isn't, you've just formatted and installed OSX with your brand-spanking new version of Office for X. Why would you have Office 2001 installed?

I've come across this a couple of times, and just recently upgraded my work computer from OS 9 to Jaguar (10.2), and was again faced with my old solution - install Entourage 2001 in classic, replace with my database, start up Entourage X and import from there. Ugh.

Essentially, MS is saying that it won't import the database itself - unless you've exported the info as a tab delimited file or similar, it wants you to have the database attached to a working install of Entourage 2001. Simply replacing the X database gives you a nasty "Can't work with this database" and the program won't even launch.

The Solution
The one I used in the past worked, granted, but here's how to avoid having two installations of two different versions of Entourage. Simply make sure your Office 2001 CD is in the drive when you launch Entourage X for the first time, (or, if you have already launched it, when you import). You won't get the "no program to import from" message, and you can then point Entourage X to any place on the computer, including network drives.

Depending on how much of a packrat you are, this could take seconds, minutes, or even hours, but at the end of it all, you'll have all your old data, in all your folders, with all your settings.

If you're really in a pinch, and can't find your original CD, you can download Outlook Express, install it, and replace the Microsoft User Data with your archived one. I've actually done this just after I moved, and had no desire to unpack 20 boxes just to get my email working.
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this was a no brainer for me...
Authored by: meancode on Sep 09, '02 08:19:12PM

hi,

i imported my entourage 2001 stuff to entourage x when it shipped. and i see the options are still the same in entourage x sp1. you choose import from file menu, from program, the first and selected by default choice is entourage 2001. you select your identity and go to luch. when i came back it was all there. maybe i am missing something here, but it was very strait forward process for me.



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climbing mount rainier
Authored by: pmccann on Sep 09, '02 10:12:05PM

Yes, you're missing something: the problem arises when you don't have office 2001 installed on the machine onto which you've just installed officeX. (That is, you've copied in the Microsoft User Data folder, but haven't installed the application that wrote that data.) The import script demands to "see" the relevant older application. The solution presented in the hint works because the script is happy to recognise Entourage 2001 on the CD as being equivalent to having Entourage 2001 on the HD.

Cheers,
Paul



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Data import from Entouarge 2001 to Entourage v.X
Authored by: heyotwell on Aug 07, '03 09:19:26PM

I just went through this. It's not totally clear from the original hint, so here's exactly what I did.

1. Install and set up Entourage X
2 Find Outlook Express on my Apps (OS9) folder (it's installed by default with OS X)
3 Launch OE (this launches in Classic, not OSX) and create an account. This creates the "Identities" folder you'll use in a minute.
4 Quit OE.
5 Find OE's "Identities" folder, which is in your Documents/Microsoft User Data/ folder (it's right next to the Office X Identities folder)
6 Replace the contents of the "Main Identity" folder in the "Identities" folder with the stuff I'd backed up from Entourage 2001 and want to use again (Database, Rules, Signatures, Messages, etc.)
(Note that if you start OE at this point, it will complain that it can't use the current Identity. That doesn't matter.)
7 Start Entourage
8 Go to File->Import and follow the process for importing from OE. Note that it will ask you to select OE's "Identities" folder where you've just put your good Entourage 2001 stuff.
9 It should import just fine from there.

I had to futz around with my Account settings--my password got garbled--but that's it. I found the import to be much faster than other similar imports I've done.

I think this might even be easier than doing the MBOX backup procedure, which can be slow.



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