On Monday, October 06, 2003 at 1:59 PM, Marco Piovanelli sent forth:
>I upgraded to PowerMail 4.2.1 earlier today. > >I was about to simply copy the newer version to my Applications >folder, overwriting PM 4.2, then (fortunately) it came to me that >this would destroy my custom scripts, which I had added to: > > PowerMail.app/Contents/MacOS/PowerMail Additions/PowerMail Scripts/ > >This brings up a question: > >Is the above folder the only location PM will search for scripts? >If so, may I suggest having separate locations for factory-installed >scripts and user-written ones? (the latter being somewhere _outside_ >the application bundle) > No, it is not the only place, thankfully. Your scripts can (and probably should) go into: Users/<user>/Documents/PowerMail 4 (or 3) Files/PowerMail Scripts/ >Also, I save my own scripts as data fork-only compiled scripts with >a ".scpt" extension. However, I'd rather the ".scpt" extension didn't >show up in the Script menu, but PM doesn't seem to honor the "Hide >extension" setting. > I've never seen the extension appear myself, either in the Scripts Menu or in the Finder. I don't know how to help you on this one. -- Tim Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] G4/AGP/400 OS 10.2.8 PowerMail 4.2.1 384 MB RAM 40+10 GB HDs
