Peter, On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:31:49 -0500, Peter Lovell <[email protected]> wrote:
>I wonder if there's a way to identify orphans? > >Anyone know of one? Perhaps CTM has a suggestion? The behavior is that message moved to PowerMail's mail trash should see their attachments moved to the Finder trash upon emptying PowerMail's trash. This was done so that there would be two layers of protection against inadvertant destruction of attachments. And no, there is no way to identify orphans since, precisely, they are orphaned. What I do use to keep the Mail Attachments folder under control is the "Find duplicates" feature of FileBuddy, which will compare the dataforks of attachments by content and let you select for instance only the newest ones, then delete them in one go. This will at least get rid of duplicates, with however the risk that one of the duplicate files may be the file referenced by a message as its attachment. Regards, jean michel
