Hi George, Mirko mentioned PowerMail exchange format, rather than Microsoft Exchange.
I think that would work OK - I wouldn't ever try to run stuff through MS Exchange. Regards.....Peter On Mon, Nov 22, 2010, George Henne <[email protected]> wrote: >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 >><[email protected]> 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 <[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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > >
