On 6/2/05 11:43 PM, "Eddie Hargreaves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do you accomplish this? > > I dragged a single message to the desktop (Scott Haneda's "thought this was > interesting" message) which had the .eml suffix. When I did a Spotlight > search for Scott Haneda, I got no results. Change the extension to .txt . Then it finds it immediately. Because the file has an actual file type (M822) an creator type (OPIM), double clicking it still opens it as a message in Entourage rather than as a text file in TextEdit, even though it now has the .txt extension. (At least for now...) That could be added to the script, or rather the Finder would have to add the file type and creator type after assigning the .txt extension. Barry, did you really get it to work somehow with .eml. (Does it index it later on?) > > Previously I dragged a folder from the folder list onto the desktop to > create a .mbox file. Spotlight hasn't indexed the contents of those files > either. Same thing, but spotlight would only index the first 100K - this is hardly anything in an .mbox file - a few messages only. That's precisely why Apple Mail no longer uses mbox files in Tiger. I notice Mail uses the .emlx extension now for messages. That doesn't work for these exported Entourage messages, though, as far as Spotlight is concerned. Only .txt. If you open a Mail .emlx file in TextEdit, it turns out to be an XML file (text, too, but of a special kind, and encoded in UTF-8). So it's no good "faking" the Entourage-export as the wrong sort of file. Strange that it won't index and search normal .eml files, though, when it has no objection to doing it for the identical file listed as .txt. (I wonder if HTML-message .eml files, or files with encoded attachments, might present a problem so it just avoids them all? -- Paul Berkowitz MVP MacOffice Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. -- 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/>
