Preparing DateBk 6 Data for Transition to Pimlical D

"[email protected] [pimlicodatebk]" <[email protected]> 09 Aug 2015 21:22:48 -0700
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<p><span>I&#39;m starting the process but I thought I should look through my current and history databases - over 5K calendar records from 2000 to 2015 current (???).&nbsp; Somehow I&#39;ve lost my 1995 - 2000 data - no idea where that went - probably deleted it along the way sometime.&nbsp; I have about 3 K records in the&nbsp; current calendar database.&nbsp; So clearly I need to group these for P/D and then P/A!&nbsp; </span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p><span>I also noticed lots of duplicates in the history &amp; was manually deleting them when I thought - gee - DB FixIt does that so I ran it and found no errors.&nbsp; I ran it multiple times&nbsp; &nbsp;(although since I was on my way home riding in the car for 8 hours with nothing else to do, I deleted them all manually first). Then
  when I got home I went on-line &amp; found I had version 1 not 2.&nbsp; So I downloaded the current trial version and it found no errors or duplicates either. Hopefully I did a good job &amp; that&#39;s why DBFixit found nothing - hardly seems possible I could get them all - or does the trial version even call duplicates &#39;errors&#39; ???</span></p><p><span>&nbsp; </span></p><p><span>&nbsp;Questions</span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p><span>1) Does the above scenario&nbsp;seem plausible? Or am I missing something?</span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p><span>2) I also found in the history database lots of what appear to be &#39;current reoccurring To Do&#39;s&#39; that are generating up to and through the current date and on into 2018 where they end!&nbsp; Why are these current to do&
 #39;s generating in the history data base &amp; shouldn&#39;t I get them deleted somehow so that my history database is clean?&nbsp; Any idea what&#39;s going on &amp; what I should do?</span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p><span>3) I actually do not like to save completed &#39;To Do&#39;s&#39; and somehow for the years 2012 and 2013 that&#39;s ALL I have in the history DB.&nbsp;All my calendar items - which is what I typically save are nowhere to&nbsp;be found.&nbsp; I have some recollection of making some mistake somewhere as this is also true for 2008, but I have no idea what I might have done.&nbsp; I&#39;m guessing my calendar data is &#39;gone&#39; &amp; all I have as some hint are the completed &#39;To Do&#39;s&#39;.&nbsp; &nbsp;Is that right?&nbsp; And - Any idea what I did??? So 
 I don&#39;t do it gain?</span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p><span>3) Should I try to do anything further to clean up the database before moving it into P/D . . . I know P/D has an awesome set of tools to do all sorts of things, but should I do some (more) clean-up first?</span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p><span>Thanks a million in advance for any help!&nbsp; Deb</span></p><p><span>&nbsp; </span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p><span><br></span></p>



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