11/03/04 7 BellSouth : >I've just installed a new 10 GB HD on my Wallstreet PowerBook, running OS >9.2.2, and copied everything over and all seems to be well. However, when I >choose to run one of the many AppleScripts I've got (from reading these >posts and taking suggestions), they now run very slowly...if at all.
Mac OS 9.2.2 installs AppleScript 1.7, which is dead slow when invoked within an application (almost always, then :-) Upgrade to AppleScript 1.8.3. If your scripts fail with 1.8.3 due to OSX-driven changes in last versions of Classic AppleScript, downgrade to AppleScript 1.6 instead. See the "Troubleshooting" and "Related links" parts at the bottom of my "Better DB Stats" script's page (notice the part about re-saving the script to make it aware of your copy of Emailer, this may speed things up a bit too): http://vric.free.fr/mac/Emailer/Better%20DB%20Stats/ReadMe.html If some scripts still fail with a non-1.7 version of AppleScript, check their ReadMe or code comments for osax requirements (scripting additions they may need). >ones I use all the time are "Trash attachments" and "Trash messages and >attachments"--and they now run like molasses in Anchorage in January. While you're at my site, make sure that you have the last version of those scripts (1.5). http://vric.free.fr/mac/Emailer/ >I've also changed the >creator on the scripts to match others that I have, thinking that might have >some effect... now all my AppleScripts show as "Compiled Scripts" with type >"osas" and creator "ToyS". The creator has no influence on the way scripts run. It just tells what editor saved them (usually Apple's Script Editor, Smile, Script Debugger). Apps normally don't care about a file's creator, all that counts is the file type. Creator codes are used by the Finder to open files. The type shouldn't be altered, as apps may crash when opening scripts with incorrect file type (a script can be "compiled script", "applet", "droplet", text; assigning one type to another file will confuse the app trying to use it). All scripts in Emailer's AppleScripts folder were supposed to be "compiled scripts" anyway, so you're certainly safe. >those two scripts showed up with generic icons and as documents. Probably because I wrote them in Smile and you don't have Smile. You can still edit them by dragging them to any script editor. I'll consider setting the creator of the scripts I release to Apple's Script Editor to avoid confusing users, thanks. >Does the fact that I have 48 scripts in my >AS folder have any effect? No. >I've rebuilt the desktop and cleared the PRAM on >the machine, run Norton and DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro! It won't hurt anyway (except Norton, I avoid Norton, don't trust Norton). No, no, come down here Norton, don't bite that, bad monkey Norton, oh OK, you peed on my disk, now give it back to me. Norton, where's my disk? Norton? >I'm having to consider moving to Entourage as I often have to use both >programs to clear my in-box. I have a Compuserve account (have since 1986 >or 1987), and access it via my BellSouth DSL broadband account. > >Emailer... >...is running slower than Entourage (DL speeds), This will only get worse as other mailers improve, particularly those that check multiple accounts simultaneously whereas Emailer does one after another. The importance of speed depends on your usage, for my needs it's almost irrelevant since using schedules to download mail automatically make slower DL indistinguishable from faster DL at lengthier intervals, and I don't read messages as soon as they drop anyway. I think DL feels faster within Classic under OS X (better networking in OS X) but I didn't benchmark both setups. There may be a few seconds to gain there (OS X runs on my Wallstreet Powerbook, but I would only recommend that with plenty of RAM and disk space; Sonnet also makes a G4/500 processor card for those, yum). >...won't let me upload MP3's or other large files via my service when >Entourage will, Does someone know of Emailer's size limitations? It failed with big attachments on my SE/30, but never on PPC macs (I don't send big files via email, though). Failures on the SE/30 involved dialup connection time-out during slow coding/decoding of attachments. >...will leave certain kinds of msgs on the Compuserve server and will not >pick them up, even though they show in the Connection Status window as being >downloaded. I then have to use Entourage to get those--forwards coming via >AOL, certain Windoze files (which also come with coded titles rather than >file names), I never had messages requiring another mailer to download, but I sometimes get: - badly encoded text that claims iso-8859-1 but really is Windows encoding, messing up accented chars, mostly from Hotmail (I wrote a script to convert contents and/or subjects between win and mac encodings) - badly encoded messages from Apple's Mail that come as 2 text flavours in the same message, one hard-wrapped and one with original paragraphs (I made a script to replace the content with that of the clipboard and gave it a kb shortcut, so I sometimes select the good part of a message and hit Cmd-C then my Cmd-Opt-V to trim unwanted stuff, but there's also a simpler "Trim content" script out there for that sole purpose) - strangely named attachments and messages from M$ lusers; I didn't address that issue (apparently attachment names could be restored from the message header or content, so far I either didn't care or used copy/paste, but it could be automated) I didn't release the "win/mac text" and "paste in incoming" scripts yet; if someone is interested just ask. >...and I have a Downloads folder that stays at around 800 items (even though >I use some scripts to trash attachements on some of my regular mail, and >take time every morning to trash others). If you spend time maintaining your downloads folder, you should consider using other "Good downloads" folder(s) where to move known good stuff (Emailer attachments work like alias: they won't break as long as the files stay on the same volume, their last known file paths will only be tried if the originals are gone, meaning they were deleted or moved to another disk). Here's the easiest way I found to keep the downloads folder tidy (OK I don't, but I often WISH I would): - for images, sounds, videos, fonts, text: drag the folder to iView Media and use it to view/comment/move/delete files http://www.iview-multimedia.com/ But make sure HTML isn't checked in iView's import options, because HTML rendering often crashes iView (probably more so with email HTML which has bad standards compliance by nature) - for HTML and other stuff: drag the folder to the often misunderstood web browser iCab (my default browser) and use its "Link manager" view (lists the folder's content in the left pane and displays clicked files in the main pane -- alien stuff like PowerPoint and Word files will open in their own apps); Internet Explorer has a similar but inferior feature that is probably usable for folder listings (it is for web pages links that IE's choice of displaying the whole page in a narrow pane is stupid) http://icab.de/ You can't move/delete files from the browser, though, and it can't be scripted either in this view (I didn't try scripting that in other browsers). But if like me you have multiple/big monitors, you can have the Finder list window next to iCab's to move/trash files in the Finder (using the same font in Finder and iCab lists it's easy to scroll and pick stuff in one or the other). ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
