23/02/04 Dave Nathanson : > I'm doing a little cleanup of my downloads folder, and I found a few >attachments that I don't recall ever seeing before. Perhaps if I knew >which email they came in with, I might be able to figure it out. > >Is there any better way then searching all the incoming emails for the >name of the attachment? That doesn't seem to work. > >Any ideas
It may be possible to narrow it down based on the file's creation date (very close to the message reception date since it should be the moment the message was decoded). Then look for messages received at that time that have attachments, or maybe script such a search if you have too many folders to do it manually. >or applescripts? I don't remember seing such a script but it should be feasible. Notice there's a possibility that attachments are from messages that don't appear to have attachments because the instances currently in the DB aren't the originals anymore but were really forged by scripts (either to apply some changes that can't be done on the originals like my "What? 1945? script, or because they were exported and reimported at some point, which loses the attachments because you can't forge incoming messages with attachments, hence the feature in my scripts to list the attachments paths at the beginning of such messages). The file name may also be different from the attachment name because: a) you can rename it without breaking the alias link but even though Emailer will then update the path (right column in the attachments pane), it won't update the left column showing the original name b) it may have come in compressed or otherwise encoded form, with the archive name having no resemblance to that of the extracted file(s), in what case even the date trick may fail because most archive formats preserve the original creation dates (so the archive would appear created when Emailer decoded the message, but the extracted files should present their real creation date, not the date they were extracted to your disk) ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
