Edmund  wrote:   
   > I have copied my people files from a laptop over a network to   
   > an other BeOS box.   
   > Now the people files are there but I am missing all the data like   
   > email address and everything.   
      
   people-files are 0-byte files with the data stored in attributes   
   (so it can be queried). You'll need to zip them up on the BeOS   
   machine (BeOS-zip preserves attributes), then unzip them on the   
   other BeOS machine.   
   Or use something like BeServed to network the two BeOS machines   
   together.   
      
   > I have the same kind of problem with the mail from Mail-It,   
   > the mail is on the BeOS box but the subject and sender are   
   > invisible in Mail-It.   
   > I don't know why this happens, do I have to zip it before   
   > uploading or what?   
      
   Similary, the sender and subject (and some other stuff too)   
   are obtained from attributes. This is why these things can be   
   displayed in a standard Tracker window. Since this information   
   is *also* contained in the file itself, it could be extracted   
   and put back into attributes. You could write some kind of script   
   for this.   
      
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