What about exporting as PowerMail Exchange including attachments, the deleting the whole lot and importing again? It is a bit a roundabout way, and it will take a lot of time for a large archive, but it should work, or am I wrong?
Mirko On 22 nov 2010, at 23:24, CTM info wrote: > 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 > >
