This message from John Carlsen on the beta eMessage Archiver list is good news to Entourage OS X users: On or near 6/17/01 11:13 AM, W John Carlsen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > I just wanted to report that my latest eMessage Archiver (eMAb13) works fine > in OS X, archiving Entourage (open in Classic) into FMP 5.5 for OS X. > > I was surprised. I didn't try. I haven't even looked into OS X scripting > techniques. > > The archiving applet was unmodified from the OS 9 compiled one. It did not > use the OS X applet runner (whatever that is) as far as I can tell, and FMP > X launched it in Classic. Then the small applet quickly loaded an email > app-specific library of 400 KB, and the archive went on as usual, though 2-3 > times faster than FMP 5 did it, more like the faster FMP 3. > > There were some activation problems at the beginning and near the end, where > I explicitly used the "activate" command in the script, and where I had to > explicitly bring FMP or the applet forward, but that seems trivial to fix > when I look into OS X's way of activating applications from the script. > > But the archiving from Entourage 2001 Classic works fine into FMP X. I will > try it out with OE 5, Emailer 2, and Eudora later. I have to install that > Eudora for OS X and try that out, too. You must have FileMaker Pro v3 or higher. And the mailing list for discussion of the eMA betas is: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a public beta. If you want to try it out it can be obtained at: > An _interim_ eMA 2.5 b12 is uploaded at: > > http://users.rcn.com/john.carlsen/MacUtilities/eMA2.5b12.hqx > > I say interim, because when I first fully prepared this, uploaded a .sit > file, deleted my originals, restarted with resetting my Desktop file, and > then downloading and unstuffing it, and then trying it, it had the old > scan-them-but-don't-archive-any problem. All the other new features worked. > > I then opened a file in Smile, the script editor, added a single space at > the end of one line, and recompiled and saved it. Then it worked fine. > > Well, I tried it several more times, and then finally I recompiled the > Entourage, Eudora, and Emailer files (not the OE 4&5 ones as a control), > stuffed it as a self-extracting archive, binhexed it, uploaded it, deleted > all signs of it from my disk (I still had older copies), then downloaded it, > unStuffed it, and it WORKED right away. I don't know why. I didn't touch the > .hqx file I uploaded. > > Well, here it is. Try it if you dare, but report your results. :-) > > As usual, let the reports flow.... ;-) > > - I did not change the docs at all since b11. If you did not read the > release notes for b11, read them now. There is a lot there. > - I think the globals are all controlled, but this alone did not fix the "no > archiving" problem. > - I think that the obstinate timeout message at the end is gone. > - I restored the script "Launch Script Librarian" to just I line, as > described in the User Guide. > - Several little changes that I've already forgotten. > > - Be particularly careful when first starting an archive. If an Open File > dialog appears with no prompt, locate "eMA Script Librarian" in the new > Scripts folder, not an old one. > > If you want to be especially careful before using the archive scripts, trash > all old copies of "eMA Script Librarian" (or compress and then trash the > original file), empty the Trash, restart with the cmd-option keys till you > are asked if you really want to rebuild your Desktop file, say yes, and when > that starts, you may be safer. I do not know if this will help. Anyway it > will be good for your computer. :-) > > Cheers, > John -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
