Talk:Migration tool from MS-Outlook
From Evolution
I have tried this process through Thunderbird 3 beta and LDIF and it did not bring across the physical street and number on the street, yet this information did make it to Thunderbird. The City, State, Zip came over. Also, the File As field did not transfer over properly. I didn't even look at the notes section as it is quite obvious that a lot of data is lost in the transfer.
Login: chunnel 05/03/09
Later the same day;
Sorry, mistake, it's worse than that. Info is completely bungled up, under CSV from Thunderbird, things in the notes section of one contact turn into the Full Name of a new Contact titled by the information in a different Contact note's section. Names don't come over, many blanks.
Absolutely worthless.
5/04/09
Ok, found out there are some parculiarities to this process. Tried CSV from Outlook, which in the past I thought had frozen the computer. I let it run all night and all 5,000 contacts were imported. Only text info came accross in notes section though and something was added to all 5,000 notes and that is; "Gender:Unspecified Initials:A.G. Priority:Normal Private:False Senstivity:Normal". But Notes section is impossibly small to the point of being impossible to use and there appears to be no way to adjust that. Also, the Contact card is poorly laid out. Outlook has it right, you don't.
5/04/09
After the somewhat successful import of basic Contact info, I tried to import the Calendar CSV. Remember the Outlook import took all night to achieve. So I went to the Calendar in Evolution and tried to import the Calendar from Outlook as a CSV. What it did was to place all the Calendar entries in Contacts, which are impossible at an easy glance to determine which is a contact and which is a Calendar entry, so I had to ERASE the entire Contact list which had already taken 6 hours to import at least, not including the hour and a half for the Calendars. So now 8 hours wasted! Not only that, there appears to be no way to import separate Contact Folders and thus all will be combined into one.
I like the basic layout of Evolution and it seems to be Outlook 2003 lite, more like Entourage, but Thunderbird is just so much better in it's integration. It took only 5 minutes, less maybe to import all my 8,000 Contacts in 12 different folders. It took me 12 hours for 1 Contact Folder and 1 Calendar Folder in Evolution and then it came out wrong.
Honestly, a very poor effort. I expected more by a company that is sponsored by Novell.
5/04/09
You did know that evolution can import PST files right ? This procedure is outdated but complaints should be directed to either evolution-users mailing list, bugzilla.gnome.org or #evolution on Freenode as wiki talks are not much used nor consulted. --EvaSDK 13:32, 4 May 2009 (MDT)
