Shirasagi, I agree with LuKreme that you probably don't want to start mucking with the mbox files without a MIME aware tool lest you run the risk of corrupting the mobx. I would not even attempt this w/o perl and MIME::Tools (or equiv.)
It might be simpler for you to change the Prefs in Apple Mail so that the "Keep copies of messages for offline viewing" option (under Accounts->Advanced) was set to "All messages, but omit attachments" Good Luck Matt On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hello: > > Just joined the group. I hope someone here can help. > The problem: when I archive my e-mail Inbox (Apple Mail), images and > graphics are saved as enormously long, unintelligible strings of > alphanumeric characters. I want to keep the archived "mbox" text files > but remove these big blocks of text, to reduce the files' sizes. > Can BBEdit, on its own or using Unix command-line operations, do > this? > I suppose the solution is something like this: many of the text > strings begin with the same set of three or four characters. I want > the BBEdit script or command to search for these sets, then delete > them and everything following until it reaches the string "--Apple- > Mail." > I'll insanely appreciate any help. > > Cheers, > > shirasagi > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
