I assume you are talking about eMessage Archiver? It <is> OS X native. There are versions for both 9 and X. It uses FileMaker Pro, but it comes in a runtime version; that is, you get a working FMP engine that works for this application only.
I'm not sure what you mean by mentioning Word. Do you want to archive your messages to a Word file? (Really??) If you just want to preserve a snapshot of all your mail folders every few months, you could do the following. It sounds more complex than it really is. Basically, you are just creating a copy of your entire database. Create a new "identity" in Entourage, using the Switch Identity command in the "entourage" menu. Once you have the new identity, switch back to your main identity. Exit Entourage, and close any other programs that access the database, such as Office Notifications and Microsoft Database Daemon (you may need to use "Process Viewer" to kill the Daemon, or a simple AppleScript: 'tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon" to quit'). In Finder, navigate to the folder that contains your Microsoft User Data (MUD) folder (usually your OS X Home folder's Documents folder) and then to Office X Identities inside the MUD folder. There, you will see folders for your main Entourage identity and for the new one you just created. Open the folder for your main identity. There, you will see the files "Database" and "Database Cache". These are your entire Entourage database: messages, contacts, calendar, etc. Select the two files and type "Cmd-c" to initiate a copy. Navigate to the folder of the new identity, and in that folder, type "Cmd-v" to "paste". This will tell Finder to copy the database files to this folder. Of course, it will ask if you want to replace the existing files; you do. Once the copy is done, you can re-launch Entourage. Now, in Entourage, you will find that you can switch to the new identity, and there will be a copy of everything that was in the main identity. This way, you preserve all the fields, the links between items, everything. Even rules and schedules. You can use Entourage's Advanced Find to find anything you want. Do this every few months, and you will have a growing archive of snapshots of your mail database. On or near 6/3/02 7:01 AM, Greg T. Vincent at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > I went and looked at this shareware program and saw that it requires > FileMaker Pro and runs on OS9 Is there an e-mail archiving program available > that is OSX native and will work with Entourage X and MS Word X? I don't > need a fancy one I just like to archive my folders every couple of months. > I have previously been dragging the folders to the desktop but unfortunately > all the dates are then gone when doing this and makes searching for a > particular difficult as all e-mails in the folder will have the same date. >>> 2) What is the best way to archive entourage (X) mail? >>> >> >> In my opinion, the best way is John Carlsen's shareware package, eMessage >> Archiver. See details at: >> <http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11969&db=mac> >> >> You can also archive by drag and drop, just dragging folders to the desktop. >> Barry W recently posted a script to archive all your folders at once in this >> way. (Does not select only recent messages; archives everything in the >> folder.) > -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http:homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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/>
