weird email archiving issue

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I downloaded DT office pro, and archived 1352 emails with attachments from entourage with no problem. However, when I went to put a copy of the new DB on the server, it wouldn’t copy about 460 of those files and stopped dead. I seem to have traced the problem to the “From” field in some/many/all(?) of the emails, which creates a long line of (clickable) code like this one: mailto:jsr29@xxxxxxxx.netsubject=Re%20Atta%20martyrdom%20video$in-repryto=%3C000301c635eaf$99c3…etc I shoud note that the server is a windows server in my office. I have no trouble copying the database from one mac to another. Is it that the code is somehow too long (?) for windows, and is there any workaround?

If I turn the emails into text files I would lose the attachments, which were the reason for the archiving. I don’t need the emails & could open and archive every attachment individually, but this would defeat the purpose of the quick one-shot process…

thanks

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We have to use these long filenames (mostly because we need to support Panther). You could export these files and write a script or use an Automator action to rename them to something shorter that XP might support (although NTFS should have no problems with these).

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the poroblem is that there are potentially so many of them, and they are not listed when the copying breaks down–only the first one that hangs up is. How can I find them (all), since they are em bedded in the massive email archive? Is there any central place where they are stored…

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You need the original filenames if you want the duplicate mail detection mechanism to work. So if you want to run your database on a remote Windows volume, I’m not sure if that is a good idea when it doesn’t support long filenames. This is regardless of the MailImport plugin of course.