On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Allen Watson wrote:
> Ken,
>
> I'm not sure I understand. What you want to do, if I read your message
> right, is simply to MOVE messages from the main folder into sub-folders, by
> date. Probably it would be good, if a message from July, 2000 is encountered
> and no folder "2000-07" exists, that the script create it. That way the
> script could be run periodically and continue to create subfolders as
> needed.
>
> All of this is happening <in Entourage>, right? You do not want Finder
> folders, right?
>
You are 100% correct in all statements above.
> What you want isn't all that difficult, really. The other person who replied
> assumed, I think, that you wanted to write out messages to Finder text files
> in folders, and that is what the scripts he referred to do, I believe.
>
Glenn Austin sent me a pointer to one of his scripts that goes through all
folders and archives to a single folder. This is giving me something to
look at and get ideas from.
> Do you script at all? Will some code snippets and suggestions suffice, or do
> you need someone to write the script for you? (I might be willing to take it
> on, or Paul; sounds fairly easy but fun.)
>
I have never written and AppleScript before, but I am interested in
learning, and this seems to be the itch to get me into it. Code snippets
and suggestions would be great, and if I get stuck then I'll post another
(and another and another... ;-) ) message asking for help. If you or Paul
were interested, I certainly wouldn't complain, but I think I would like
to actually learn how to do this myself.
Thanks for the help,
Ken Scott
> On or near 6/24/01 4:04 PM, Ken Scott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>
> > I am wondering if there is a script that will take the contents of a large
> > folder (like, say, for Entourage mac-talk) and archive it to a series of
> > folders below the current location, sorted by year-month.
> >
> > For example, in my database, I have a folder named Entourage Talk, which
> > contains nearly a year's worth of articles (6057 items at this moment). I
> > would like to run a script which would create the following structure,
> > putting the messages in the proper folder:
> >
> > Entourage Talk
> > |
> > +- 2000-01
> > |
> > +- 2000-02
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > +- 2001-06
> >
> > I am an experienced programmer, but have never, ever tried AppleScript.
> > Pointers to either an existing script (or one needing only minor mods), or
> > help on doing the scripting myself would be incredibly appreciated.
> >
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