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Another reason the process is difficult is Goldmine's unusual field use.
Goldmine uses its fields in quite unusual and let us say, creative ways. For example, in Goldmine's CONTSUPP.DBF file, the Address and City fields are sometimes are used for secondary contacts. But at other times, these fields are used for the "address" of a linked document template! At other times, for an email address.
This is too inconsistent for standard import procedures.
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We are familiar with such idiosyncrasies, and take care of them in our conversion process.