Sounds workable - but is Microsoft Exchange the most reliable to export/ import to?
>Mirko, > >Funny that you should have thought of that and mentioned it here. I >started to type a similar suggestion in my previous message, only to >delete it before sending: figured that I'd get in a whole lot of trouble >if I were the one to suggest this and for some reason something didn't >work in the process. > >But hey, since you were the one suggested it, then it surely must be >worth a try ! ;-) > >jean michel > >On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:30:21 +0100, Mirko Kranenburg ><mirko.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>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 <plov...@mac.com> 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 >>> >>> >> >> > > >
