Winnowill update!
Dec. 17th, 2007 06:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperSo I ran into a couple of snags that will prevent me from being able to shift completely over to the Mac for another little bit.
One is that the test drive version of Office 2004 that's on the box is a couple of revs too old to be able to talk to the software I've purchased for syncing the Mac with my frob. Grf. The test drive version is 11.2.1; the software wants 11.2.3. Which means I can't really properly set up Entourage as my main mail client, not yet.
There's also that I am having difficulty getting my offline mail out of Outlook and over onto the Mac in a format that's readable by either Mac mail or by Entourage--because Outlook pretty much only exports to PST format, and nobody else in the world talks that. I have so far tried to use Thunderbird to import from Outlook, which was only partially successful--Thunderbird screwed up a couple of folders, possibly because they had slashes in the name, and completely failed to actually pull mail in for other folders. Like, say, the Inbox. I need to figure out if I can suitably rearrange the folders to make them less complex and try Thunderbird again, or if there's another option. Suggestions on this are hereby solicited.
I also managed to torch a good bit of my computer-side music collection, entirely by accident. All is not lost--all the files are still in the hidden directory on the iPod, as I discovered by accessing it from the terminal shell when it was plugged into Winnowill's USB ports. However, if I want to cobble my computer-side library back together, the only way I've found to do this so far is to go painstakingly through each and every file off the iPod and import it into the library. This is because the iPod stores the files with random four-character names, so I can't easily tell which song is which until I actually load 'em up. Doable, but super-tedious. I'll be working at this probably throughout the week.
Fortunately iTunes defaulted to manually managing the sync with the device, possibly because it's Windows format still. I'll have to be grateful for that, since it's what's kept me from having to re-rip every single song I own. I just wish I'd figured this out before I tried to slurp some of my music files off my machine at work!
One is that the test drive version of Office 2004 that's on the box is a couple of revs too old to be able to talk to the software I've purchased for syncing the Mac with my frob. Grf. The test drive version is 11.2.1; the software wants 11.2.3. Which means I can't really properly set up Entourage as my main mail client, not yet.
There's also that I am having difficulty getting my offline mail out of Outlook and over onto the Mac in a format that's readable by either Mac mail or by Entourage--because Outlook pretty much only exports to PST format, and nobody else in the world talks that. I have so far tried to use Thunderbird to import from Outlook, which was only partially successful--Thunderbird screwed up a couple of folders, possibly because they had slashes in the name, and completely failed to actually pull mail in for other folders. Like, say, the Inbox. I need to figure out if I can suitably rearrange the folders to make them less complex and try Thunderbird again, or if there's another option. Suggestions on this are hereby solicited.
I also managed to torch a good bit of my computer-side music collection, entirely by accident. All is not lost--all the files are still in the hidden directory on the iPod, as I discovered by accessing it from the terminal shell when it was plugged into Winnowill's USB ports. However, if I want to cobble my computer-side library back together, the only way I've found to do this so far is to go painstakingly through each and every file off the iPod and import it into the library. This is because the iPod stores the files with random four-character names, so I can't easily tell which song is which until I actually load 'em up. Doable, but super-tedious. I'll be working at this probably throughout the week.
Fortunately iTunes defaulted to manually managing the sync with the device, possibly because it's Windows format still. I'll have to be grateful for that, since it's what's kept me from having to re-rip every single song I own. I just wish I'd figured this out before I tried to slurp some of my music files off my machine at work!