On 3/6/05 08:33, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?) My script is saving the file without extension, although it is still associated with Entourage. Spotlight shows them up in the 'Documents' section within minutes of them being saved. I must admit that I hadn't realised that file without a .eml extension would not be indexed - it must be pure chance that I didn't save the extension. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: <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/>
