Look at "!Claris It! v4", original script for Outlook Express by Robert
Buckley, modified and enhanced by me for Entourage v. X, on my web site or
at AppleScript Central. Also, I'm starting a new scripting web site since I
have trouble uploading to my iDisk. It isn't complete yet, but the above
script is there. The new site is at:

<http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

The !Claris It! script is quite smooth; I use it a half-dozen times every
day. It will remove multiple attachments from a message, and it leaves a log
line at the <top> of the message indicating what was removed and where the
attachment was stored, full path. I have a companion script called "Open
File of Selected Spec" (also on the web site) that will let you select the
file path and run the script to open the saved attachment. The first script
also lets you set up a list of favorite folders in which to store files;
when you run it, the list pops up, you select the destination you want, and
the files get saved there. Oh! Yes, you can select multiple messages in a
folder and the script will process them all at once. As it stands, it will
throw an error if you give it a message that has no attachments; I figure
you would want to know if you select the wrong message. But that could be
changed, if you ask, to just ignore messages that don't have any
attachments.

I keep meaning to modify !Claris It! further, to put the folder list into a
separate "preferences" script object, but I went to so much trouble to work
that feature into the script that I hesitate to mess with it. Its main
shortcoming is that every time  edit the script in any way, I lose the
entire saved folder list. That won't be a problem for anyone who does not
edit the script.

On or near 3/26/02 4:07 AM, Nik Hole at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:

> Is there any way to be able to remove all attachments from messages in a
> mail folder and save them to the hard drive to reduce the size of the
> database?  
> I know it can be done on individual messages but I was wondering if there
> was a batch methodology that would still retain a reference on the message
> as to what the name of the attachment was saved as (so you know which
> attachment to open at a later point).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nik

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