I figured for sure someone would have gotten to this before me... Sean Kline said:
>On a separate matter, I have hundreds of folders and many thousands of >messages that I'd like to clean up. I would like to purge the largest >attachments of those messages that are not very important (or purge >unimportant attachments). Aside from trying to sort through 4,000+ >attachments manually, does anyone know of a way to sort all messages in >one go (folders and subfolders) by attachment size, as opposed to going >through every folder and sorting by size? Perhaps there is an script >already for this task. > >Thanks, >Sean All attachments (from all folders and sub- folders in your mail database) are stored in a single folder called, strangely enough, Attachments. You should be able to find that folder in your PowerMail Files folder. Just open the Attachments folder and sort it according to size. I don't know how you'll be able to tell important files from unimportant ones without inspecting each one by hand, but I leave that to you. If you delete attachments out of the Attachments folder, then the associated icon badge in the email that had held the file will be dimmed/disabled. This tells you that PowerMail cannot locate the attachment that is supposed to go along with the message. The file structure is assuming you're using an OS other than X. I'm certain PM has the same Attachments folder under OSX, but I'm not sure how you'd navigate to it since I don't use X. Maybe if you control- click on the PM icon or something like that... Tim Tokyo, Japan iBook PPC G3 300MHz OS 8.6 160MB/+400MB VM CarbonLib 1.6 PM 4.1.2 (15MB allocated) 2 pane view Digest Mode Tim's PowerMail FAQ <http://home.hpo.net/timm/PowerMailFAQ.html> Last updated: March 21, 2002 PowerMail AppleScript Archives: <http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html>
