On 5/6/05 00:48, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/4/05 2:37 PM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>
> That's not true here, Barry (OS 10.4.1). I believe you've said you have a
> script which does it that way - perhaps it does something else as well, or
> in the process of making the files somewhere along the way they get indexed.
> But it's not true with messages I drag out of Entourage to my desktop and
> remove the .eml extension manually. Look for "Hargreaves" and it won't find
> this message, for example. Add ".txt" extension to the file and it will.
> Remove it again and it won't. Add it back and it will.
Very strange.
This is the line of script I use to save the message:
save aMessage in (archiveFolder as text) & fileName
'archiveFolder' is an alias to a finder folder. Filename is a text variable
I have determined from the subject of the email and has no extension.
There's an image of a typical result here:
http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/images/spotlight.gif
I wonder why it doesn't work with a drag-copy???
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