Evie, I think you may be worrying unnecessarily! If the attachments exist as files and those files are already linked to the emails in PowerMail (and those links are live, ie. not greyed out) the you should be home and dry, because PM should keep track of the attachments as you move them around.
There is something to note here however: if you have a message selected and move its attachment in the finder, the attachment in PM will become greyed out. "Oh no!"you think, "It's lost the link!". But it hasn't deselect the message and reselect it again, and you'll see that your attachment link is as good as new, as PM has tracked its prey to its new location. So: IF your attachments are already linked to the correct emails, my bet is that if you move the attachments PM will keep track of where they are. Try it with just one and see. Hope this helps; Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.8 :: PM 5.1 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from Evie Leder on 28/4/05 at 7:20 pm >Hi, > >The attachments are located in the Home->Library->Mail->Attachments folder > >The emails are LINKED to the attachments. At the bottom of the email >there is a link that says: > >This message has the following attachments: > file://localhost/Users/evie/Library/Mail/Attachments/2004-10001%20- >%20Evie%20Leder%231.pdf > >But, I see this as a problem. I want them to be in my PM attachments >folder. Plus, recently I had to re-install ALL of my software, and >inadvertantly did not back up Mail, because, well, I don't use Mail. >Luckily I had a backup and was able to restore all of my old attachments. >Jerome said that PM should import all of the attachments, but it did not. >And now I am months into using PM and my attachments, while still >attached, live in Mail's attachments folder. Not good. > >Does that help explain it a bit better? > >All new incoming attachments DO go into the PM Attachments folder. > >I'd like to move all the attachments to PM attachments folder, but will >have to relink them 1 by 1, right? > >Thanks for replying! >Evie >
