salgud

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:24:11 -0600, Jolly Roger wrote:

> In article <8qrmh7du5e7q818le15ek9urru2nliq9fp@4ax.com>,
> Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:20:37 -0800, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>
>>>OK, I just imported Contacts and Date Books to Address Books and iCal.
>>>Indeed they were messy!
>>
>> I heard on a podcast that there's a company that sells a set of
>> utilities, including one to clean up bad contacts and one to clean up
>> bad calendar events. Should be easy to find if you suspect you may
>> have dirty events.
>
> Not worth the trouble IMO. I managed to clean mine up after the import
> from Palm Desktop in just under 30 minutes with a little bit of crafty
> scripting.

Oh, you _crafty_ devil, you!

salgud

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:13:51 -0600, Jolly Roger wrote:

> In article <taadnQiZIeN5CYbSnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d@earthlink.com> ,
> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>
>> On 1/21/2012 6:24 PM PT, Jolly Roger typed:
>>>>> OK, I just imported Contacts and Date Books to Address Books and iCal.
>>>>> Indeed they were messy!
>>>>
>>>> I heard on a podcast that there's a company that sells a set of
>>>> utilities, including one to clean up bad contacts and one to clean up
>>>> bad calendar events. Should be easy to find if you suspect you may
>>>> have dirty events.
>>>
>>> Not worth the trouble IMO. I managed to clean mine up after the import
>>> from Palm Desktop in just under 30 minutes with a little bit of crafty
>>> scripting.
>>
>> Do you still have the script? There are about 500 entries for iCal's
>> import and Date Book goes about a decade.
>
> A script to do what? What is it you need to fix?

Not being very "crafty" here...

Wes Groleau

On 01-24-2012 09:24, Jolly Roger wrote:
> Office Mac 2011 has a newer program called (drum roll) Outlook, which is
> much more similar to Outlook on Windows.

Sorry to hear that.

:-)

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Alan Browne

On 2012-01-24 20:24 , Wes Groleau wrote:
> On 01-24-2012 09:24, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> Office Mac 2011 has a newer program called (drum roll) Outlook, which is
>> much more similar to Outlook on Windows.
>
> Sorry to hear that.

Outlook blows away pretty much any Mac product in the category.
Especially in an office environment integrated with Exchange Server.

I don't know if the Mac v. of Outlook is as good as the Windows v.

They seem to have dropped Entourage (for Mac) - which was underwhelming
and had some unique bugs.

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Ant

On 1/24/2012 5:24 PM PT, Wes Groleau typed:

>> Office Mac 2011 has a newer program called (drum roll) Outlook, which is
>> much more similar to Outlook on Windows.
>
> Sorry to hear that.

Why sorry? Does it suck compared to Windows' port or something?
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