On 2/3/01 3:02 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/3/01 12:50 AM, "Jeremy Whipple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Attachments: It was only yesterday, after about a month of regular use, that
>> I fully (?) grasped the attachment situation, namely, that *every
>> attachment*, sent or received, was staying embedded in my Messages file
>> unless I took action to delete it (or the message to which it was attached).
>> I've belatedly gone through and chucked the many megabytes of embedded
>> attachments, and I've created a rule to automatically delete attachments
>> from outgoing messages once they're sent. But I'm sorry that attachments
>> can't reside outside the Messages file, because it's handy to be able to go
>> back to a message later and be able to click on the attachment icon, which
>> one can do in Eudora unless the attachment itself has been deleted or lost.
>> (And meanwhile, I wonder how many other Eudora habitues have been letting
>> their Messages file bulge to the bursting point because they're not
>> conscious of the need to prune out those attachments.)
>
> If you're hankering after this, you could try my script 'Save/Expand
> Attachments' at
>
> AppleScript Central
> <http://www.applescriptcentral.com/>
>
> You'll be happy to know that it was specially adapted to handle multilingual
> message text, including Japanese. (The device for tracking the saved
> attachment so you can get there from its original message involves adding
> the attachment's name and the saved file's path name to the top of the
> message, i.e. reconstituting the message content. This will work even if
> some or all of the message is in Japanese.)
Hi Paul, before try this script may I ask how it works? What I mean is, if I
run it on, say my Inbox, which has lots of attachments, will it ask me to
save before it unstuffs them? (That would take a LOT of time.)
Cb
cbrady @ tulane.edu
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or be weary of his reproof,
for the LORD reproves the one he loves,
as a father the son in whom he delights. --Prov. 3.11-2
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