On 3/6/02 4:39 PM, "Deborah Shadovitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/6/02 11:48a, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ...That reminds me...I wrote a script a while back I forgot to post ANYWHERE! >> It is called, Save Folders to Desktop. It pops up a list of your folders, >> lets you pick one or more, and then saves the folder to the desktop <snip> > > And Paul said: >> ...As some of you may have noticed from leaked hints, I've been working for >> about 5 months on scripts to export and import almost everything from and to >> Entourage X and 2001.... > > Allen and Paul, you just gave me an idea... > > One of the bummers about backing up Entourage is the size of the database > file. It takes up a lot of room to have several copies of this file. > > What if... We had a script that looked at the folders that were changed > since the last run of it, and marked them for export. Then we could export > those folders only. This should not be in lieu of backing up the entire > Identity, but could supplement it maybe. I'm thinking that's less overhead > than an entire backup? The downside is that the exported folder's messages > lose Category, Priority, Flags, and read/unread status, though. So it's just > a jumping off point sort of thought. Not with my scripts, they don't. You can get all that stuff back after importing them back in. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
