To Bill Holt Bill, thanks for all that info. Now, since I use mail, I will see what i can do. It is for me now to think this through- don't have any idea, though, what I am thinking when I think. Those mailboxes sitting on my hard drive right now - I just don't know how they are actually functioning. But, when I am in a calm mood- rarely, I shall attempt something like you suggest and see what happens in my mail. I should not even bother, but then it intrigues me to think I can find again what somebody wrote to me in 1999, and I have a chance to sort, file, delete at my pleasure. Maybe before I give up the ghost, I might manage this. I don't have that much time left, you know. Thanks again for your explanation. Marta On May 3, 2004, at 17:59, Bill Holt wrote:
> Marta, > > Sorry about being so slow to get back to you. > > The way I archived is nothing fancy. I have used Outlook Express for > quite > a while as it gives me periodic reminders to turn, face Redmond > Washington, > and use all the curse words I know. One hates to lose skills that are > painfully gained. > > And well, it's also been, for the most part, serviceable. However, I > only > changed from 4.5 to 5.0 a short while ago, and it was at that time I > did the > massive backup of all of the 4.5 mail. The procedure? Really simple. > I > made a folder, and a set of sub-folders corresponding to mailfolder > names, > and did the en mass drag and drop routine, one mailfolder at a time. > That > copied all of the email messages into the selected folder, as > individual > text files. As I wish, I can drag and drop from these backups to the > email > program, but I only brought back those which are part of on-going > projects. > Of course, I could transfer the backup files to a much more competent > database program, like Filemaker, but have been too busy to deal with > it. I > have no idea about how to do this sort of thing with the "mail" > program that > came with OSX, but if there's an easy and certain technique for > transitioning from OE 5.0 (for OS9) to OSX Mail - without losing > messages > that are in OE 5 - I'll eventually make that move. > > Bill > >> From: Marta Edie <mledie at insightbb.com> >> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:16:01 -0400 >> To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Subject: Re: MacGroup: Processor temp and cron job - can't finds >> >> I am interested in saving /archiving old messages, too. >> Marta >> On Apr 27, 2004, at 15:12, ahw wrote: >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
