In the Calendar section of the preferences, there's an option to delete
non-recurring events older than a date you specify.
Dan
On 11/20/2000 4:29 AM, "Alan R. Houtzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why would someone want to do this, you ask? Because anyone who really uses
> a calendar and task list to manage their life will quickly build an
> enourmous Erage data file. Imagine using the same file for a couple of
> years. It would get so big, it would probably take ten minutes to open it.
> Never mind trying to synch it with another computer or Palm.
>
>> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:55:48 -0800
>> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: Calendar Event Cleanup Script
>>
>> On 11/19/00 5:38 PM, "James Naron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey scripters!
>>>
>>> Is it possible to write a script which will go through the calendar events
>>> and delete calendar events based on given criteria?
>>>
>>> Examples:
>>> Delete all calendar events whose category is none and whose alarm time is
>>> none or whose alarm time has passed.
>>>
>>> Delete all calendar events whose note field contains a given string
>>>
>>> Both of these together (delete all calendar events whose category is none
>>> and whose alarm time is none or whose alarm time has passed and whose note
>>> field contains a given string)
>>>
>> Not like that, since neither whose clauses for category nor for start time
>> were implemented. However, you cam go through every event and check on all
>> those things. In spite of the fact that (every event) will include every
>> holiday over a five-year period, it doesn't seem to take very long on my
>> machine. I'm not quite sure why you'd want to do this, however - what harm
>> does a passed event do? Many people seem to like to keep the events as a
>> diary. Not you, evidently.
>>
>> One thing that can't be done at all is check on the remind time (what you
>> call alarm time), since that property wasn't implemented (yet) in Entourage.
>> Sorry.
>>
>> I'll send you a script or two to try out, later tonight, probably. I've just
>> done one rather similar, so it won't take me long. Since there's no way to
>> find out when the last occurrence of a recurring event is (Dan - that's
>> another property we need), I won't remove recurring events. (If you want, I
>> can give you a list of them and you can say whether you want them deleted or
>> not.)
>>
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>> Paul Berkowitz
>>
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