Good idea, except you wouldn't add the criteria, otherwise you'd get no events (there are no events which match both "Category is None" and "Category Is not None").
Instead, create a separate view that looks like this: ITEM TYPES Calendar Events MATCH unless any criteria are met Recurrence is Any You could call it "All One-Time Events" or something of the sort. Like Paul said, the easiest way to clean the Recurring Events list is to create a separate view for "Recurrence is Any", like below: ITEM TYPES Calendar Events MATCH if any criteria are met Recurrence is Any On 3/8/03 11:36 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be ware that recurring events are listed just once - their first occurrence. > If you delete them, you'll lose all future occurrences too. So probably you > should exclude them from this view by add (with the "Match" popup set to <if > ALL criteria are met>) > > Recurrence Is None > > Since a recurring event is just a single event as far as the database is > concerned, they are not actually cluttering up the database with hundreds of > past events, even though it may look that way in the Calendar. Howevere, if > you're determined, you could make a separate Custom View for > > Recurrence Is Any > > and go through them manually editing the start date to the next occurrence > and deleting ones whose last occurrence has passed. There's no fast way to > do this except by AppleScript. I might just come up with one of those, but > it's very complicated parsing the recurrence data to calculate the last > occurrence. (I do have some routines which do that - that took me 3 months > to write - but not to edit the recurrence data to make a new start date. > That would be a lot of effort.) > > I'd just omit recurring events if I were you, aside from deleting ones whose > last occurrences have passed. Just DON'T delete them if they're still > ongoing. > -- > Paul Berkowitz > MVP Entourage > Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html > > PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X. > It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. > > > >> From: Mickey Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 10:53:33 -0600 >> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Removing old calendar entries? >> >> You first need to create a Custom View to list all calendar events. There >> is a procedure for doing so located on the new Custom Views page on The >> Entourage Help Page. >> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/custom_views/index.html#calendar> >> >> Instructions to create Custom Views are located at: >> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/custom_views/index.html#create> >> >> After you have the editing window open, you can configure the editing window >> to look like the example at the first URL. Click "OK", then click the >> Custom View called "All Events" under the "Calendar Views" folder. >> >> Click the "Date" header to sort the view by date. I would have it in order >> from oldest to newest events (the triangle should point up on the "Date" >> header - click the header name to toggle). Now go to the beginning of the >> list and select the first entry. Use the scroll bar to find December 31, >> 1999 (or the last event before 01/01/02), hold down the Shift key, and >> select the event. You'll now have all events before January 1, 2002 >> selected. Just press the "Delete" button on the toolbar to delete all of >> these calendar events. >> >> On 3/8/03 10:13 AM, "James Tummins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> My calendar is getting quite large, and I'd like to remove old entries. By >>> 'old entries', I mean all items prior to Jan 1, 2002. I looked on the >>> Entourage FAQ page but didn't find anything about calendar archiving or >>> deleting. >>> >>> Is there an easy way to do this other that deleting each entry individually? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> James -- Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac) PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/> The Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- 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/>
