I didn't say "Category Is None". Mickey. I said to add "Recurrence is None".
-- 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 13:08:42 -0600 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Removing old calendar entries? > > 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/> > -- 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/>
