On 4/6/05 22:27, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 6/4/05 1:40 PM, "Remo Del Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/3/05 1:13 AM, Scott Haneda deftly typed out:
>> 
>>> I don't have access to SL here now, but I would be curious what happens if
>>> you run:
>>> SetFile -t TEXT foo.eml
>>> on a email file, and would setting the file type from M822 to TEXT break it
>>> from working with e-rage again?
>> 
>> Setting the file type to "TEXT" lets Spotlight index the file (at least
>> after running 'mdimport -f /path/to/file_or_directory'). It breaks
>> Entourage's ability to open the message correctly, as Entourage ends up
>> believing the file is an mbox file rather than an rfc822 file.
> 
> Instead of that, just change the extension to .txt .  Spotlight indexes it
> immediately, but because you haven't changed the file type (M822) or creator
> type (OPIM), double-clicking it still opens it as a message in Entourage.

Or, simply remove the extension altogether. Spotlight will still index the
message.

-- 
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/>


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