22/07/03 Bill McIntyre : >dmcadam wrote: > >>Why would you have to drag each file one by one to the Trash? I can >>select many files and drag them all at once to the Trash. > >I was dragging them from the enclosure window of the post that brought >them rather than opening my downloads file later. This way I was sure I >got each one. >[...] >I've not tried selecting by type as you described, but it would seem that >there are some keepers of almost every type.
I would avoid filetype-based methods too. I've seen such scripts discussed here and didn't dispute them because their users seemed happy, but I definitely wouldn't use them. The risk of deleting good files would be unacceptable for me. To avoid that you must either: - store good files out of the enclosures folder prior to "cleaning" it (but I'm too lazy for that) - only trash enclosures from known spam messages (that's what I do) - think that Emailer may repeatedly assign the same name to new HTML alternatives when older ones were trashed (Enclosed#x.html where x is the first unused number in the enclosures folder), so more than one message may refer to the same HTML alternative in some cases. In practice this isn't a problem. And you can rename enclosures to your liking without breaking the alias link (I think there was a thread about a script to automate that recently). Trashing enclosures for known spam messages can be done either manually like dmcadam does, or by script, or by assigning a keyboard shortcut to a script. My "Trash messages and attachments" scripts live there: http://vric.free.fr/mac/Emailer/ ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
