Update on this issue: Selecting lots of records actually works OK. I had a corrupted message in the database that could not be selected, so any selection range that included that record would fail.
I spend about 9 hours selecting records, moving and deleting yesterday, then did a Compact Database. Things are working much faster now, so it seems more than ever an auto purge of the mail database would be a really good idea. George Henne NS BASIC Corporation http://www.nsbasic.com >Yes, I did. This function probably works OK for small numbers of >messages. However, since it iterates through all the messages at >AppleScript speed, it probably would take over 24 hours to process every day. > >George Henne >NS BASIC Corporation >http://www.nsbasic.com > >>I do not see the problem you have with this - IF you use it on a daily, >>regular basis, it will not be such a volume. Did you ever TRY using the >>FREE apple script 'delete aged messages'? or any similar? >> >>---marlyse >> >>>Another suggested solution is to use a third party AppleScript. It's a >>>nice idea perhaps, but totally impractical with the volumes I have. >> >> >> > > > >
