There's no real need, as you say Rick, to modify the scripts if you are
using FileMaker on Classic. The original request was for having it work with
FileMaker for X (5.5). Neither you nor I want to pay the outrageous upgrade
fee. That's one reason I doubt any revisions to these scripts for that app
are going to happen. (Unless Dan decides to do it.)
I once began a project of making the Crevier scripts archive by date
selection (e.g., instead of all selected files, the script would select all
messages older than n days within the folder), and also to archive a
pre-defined set of folders (which could be stored in a property). But John
Carlsen's scripts already do that, and also preserve much more information
than the older Crevier scripts, which are based on the Emailer paradigm. So
why reinvent the wheel?
On or near 7/12/01 8:20 PM, Rick Zeman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> On 7/12/01 11:00 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:08:01
>> -0700
>> Subject: Re: Does archive Tx to Filemaker DB work under OS X?
>>
>> On or near 7/11/01 5:22 PM, Weiyun Yu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>>
>>> Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/7/2001 18:24:
>>>
>>>> On or near 7/10/01 11:25 PM, Weiyun Yu at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>>>>
>>>>> Would the Crevier's script for transfer of emails to Filemaker DB work
>>>>> under OS X? I will refer to Classic Entourage and Mac OS X version of
>>>>> Filemaker Pro 5.5 here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, I have tried my copy of script and it got stuck with a failure to
>>>>> recognise Filemaker under OS X.
>>>>>
>>>> This <should> work better than that. John Carlsen (who is still working on
>>>> finishing up eMessage Archiver, a similar but more sophisticated scripting
>>>> package for FMP with Entourage, OE, Eudora, Claris Emailer and some news
>>>> readers) reports that, for him, his scripts work as is using Entourage and
>>>> FMP in Classic.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect that you actually need to use the Classic version of FMP! Most
>>>> likely that either both apps have to be X, or both Classic. Do you have any
>>>> way to get FMP running in classic? (an earlier version perhaps? FMP 3 or
>>>> higher will support the scripts)
>>>>
>>> Yes, it would be nice to have a more up to date scripting package. However,
>>> I
>>> find it hard to keep changing unless they are compatible with existing FMP
>>> files that was originally created by Crevier.
>>>
>>> As for my reported experience, I was trying to transfer from Entourage in
>>> Classic to FMP in OS X. I guess the scripts will need to be updated to
>>> transcend this Classic-OS X native boundary...
>>>
>> Nobody has really been maintaining those scripts in any thorough way. Dan
>> Crevier did a quick adaptation to make them work with Entourage; I fixed
>> several small bugs, particularly in the date routines. I don't really know
>> the
>> inner workings of the scripts all that well to attempt something like porting
>> them to X. So I don't know if you can expect that to happen.
>
> Actually, I spent a bit of time updating your update months ago; I use it
> all the time. However, it's still wholly non-X. No compelling reason to
> adapt them to X when a) Entourage is a Classic app, and b) my copy of
> Filemaker is a Classic app. The latter's not going to change soon as I'm
> way torqued at Filemaker as it would cost the same to update my December
> 2000 copy of Filemaker 5 to 5.5 as it would any ancient version. WAYY too
> much money for Carbonization and a few bug fixes.
>
> If there's interest in a superset of Dan Crevier's and Alan's script,
> holler.
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