Sorry, email is a bit fragmentary while I'm on vacation on dial-up. > Right; you seemed to want a way to know if a message originally had > attachments, and eMA does provide that.
Yes, I didn't specify my wants clearly enough. Here's what I'm trying to do: 0) Keep the Entourage database small for speed and to minimize space usage on my backup media 1) Keep at least a year of email in the Entourage database for easy access. 2) Keep 30 days of attachments in the Entourage database for easy access (inline images, etc) 3) Archive attachments older than 30 days in a way that I can still find them 4) When eventually archiving my emails older than 1 year old into FileMaker, maintain the information about the archived attachment. I can do this now with a multi-step process involving both Entourage Email Archiver and eMessage Archiver (slightly modified by me), as well as the ClarisIt script. But it's a PIA, so I plan to improve the process. Your scripts will be very helpful! I just did this whole manual process over the holidays, and after letting eMessageArchiver run for about 16 hours and then doing several more hours of letting scripts run and so forth, plus about 5 hours thrashing around myself in AppleScript, I reduced my Entourage database from 760MB to 160MB, while preserving all desired email and attachments. Best, --Mike > On or near 12/31/03 8:00 PM, Michael J. Kobb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > observed: > >> Thanks for the offer to send the script! I'll look forward to it! >> > I sent the script(s) a bit after 5 PM yesterday; did you not get them? > >> Regarding the eMA stuff -- yes, if eMA archives the message and it still has >> the attachment, then it does record the attachment's name. However, it does >> not archive the attachment. So, when eMA archives the message and deletes >> it, the attachment is lost. > > > I'm looking forward to a future version of Entourage in which the scripting > support will include the ability to make a link to a file. (That is possible > manually now, but not by script.) Then, a script can save an attachment, > indicate the path in the message if desired, and also make a link between > the message and the external file, so it can easily be retrieved. When that > happens, an archive ought to preserve not only the file name but the file > path of the location in which it was saved. I simulate that now by my script > that records the path in the actual message, which is part of what gets > archived. I have another simple script that lets me select the file path > string and then either open the file or reveal it in the Finder. -- [T]his Court's obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate its own moral code -- 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/>
