Hmmmm..... Tricky. Not as simple as I hoped. You bring up several excellent points to consider VRic! Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix
On 2/24/04 1:11 PM, VRic [EMAIL PROTECTED] tapped the keyboard to say: >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]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
