Hi Ronni
Thanks for that reminder, I had completely forgotten about doing an
update. I see it is a big file!
Best regards
Chris
On 08/01/2010, at 1:33 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Chris,
Any reason why you have stayed at 10.5.6 & not upgraded to OS X
10.5.8?
If not, I would suggest you download the Combo OS X 10.5.8 & install
it.
<http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Combo_Update>
After you install the Combo use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 08/01/2010, at 10:47 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
As to when an upgrade to MacBook Pro? I am "thinking" my 17"
MacBook Pro "might" be upgraded soon... Early this year ... But I
could be wrong :-)
Sent from Ronni's iPhone
On 08/01/2010, at 10:35 AM, Chris Burton <c...@it.net.au> wrote:
Hi Ronni
Thankyou so much for the info on the archival process. My
apologies for not including my system. It is: (MacBook Pro Intel
2.2 OS 10.5.6).
Thanks also for detailing the use on Leopard and Snow Leopard, as
I am very much considering upgrading to a new MB Pro and I assume
they all have SL installed. Do you suspect that there would be
upgrade announcements soon, given it is January and they seem to
coincide with the Apple conference and should I wait a bit?
The Apple Mail script site looks really useful so I will follow
those instructions and see what happens!
Thankyou very much Ronni for your advice on this
best regards
chris
On 08/01/2010, at 8:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 08/01/2010, at 6:10 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 07/01/2010, at 9:48 PM, Chris Burton wrote:
Good evening all
My email inbox has grown to be very large indeed and I am
hoping someone may know of a method of archiving the early
years of this inbox? I regularly just copy my Mail folder to a
backup hard drive but I would like to reduce the overall number
of emails in my inbox.
Thanks for any advice
kind regards
chris
Hi Chris,
If you are using Apple Mail in Leopard or Snow Leopard you can
"Archive a Mailbox".
To archive mail, select one or more mailboxes in the sidebar and
choose Mailbox > Archive Mailbox.
Navigate to the location where you want the .mbox files to be
stored and click Choose.
If you later want to import one or more archived mailboxes into
Mail, choose File > Import Mailboxes, select Mbox Files, and
click Continue. Navigate to the folder containing the .mbox
file(s) you want to import, select it, and click Choose.
If prompted to do so, select which mailboxes you want to import.
Mail imports the data; after you click Done, you’ll see the
imported mailbox(es) in the sidebar (under Import in the On My
Mac section).
Hi again Chris,
I just tested some scripts I used prior to upgrading to Snow
Leopard, for among other scripts included, Archiving a mailbox,
"All Messages Before a certain date" (exporting the mailbox to
another location) just to see if they now work in Snow Leopard. I
checked first if he had an update and yes he does.
YES, the scripts work in Snow Leopard Mail, or at least the
"Archive Messages" script does work perfectly, I haven't had time
to check the other scripts.
Archive Messages (Mail) <http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html
>
Move messages from the selected mailbox(es) to an archive mailbox
or export them to standard mbox, plain or rich text files for
backup purposes or import into other applications. You can select
to move all messages or only messages sent within or certain
period as well filter messages based on their read and flagged
status.
<http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/files/MailScripts.dmg>
Read the information and instructions. Then Scroll to the bottom
of the page to download the latest version of the scripts.
After running the installer, the scripts are located inside a
folder called "Mail Scripts" located inside your Applications
folder (even though you can move the scripts to any other
location of your liking, the installer will not remove previous
versions located at a different path). You can run the scripts
either from double-clicking their icons from within the Finder or
using the launch scripts (or assigned keyboard shortcuts) from
within the script menu inside Mail and Address Book (the script
menu is the menu with the paper scroll icon. In 10.3.x, it is
located to the left of the Help menu - in 10.4.x and higher it is
located on the far right of the menu bar).
General Remark: Mail's AppleScript implementation does not seem
to be able to handle too many request if Mail is busy doing
something else. Some of the scripts seem to run better if you
take all your accounts offline first (Choose "Mailbox→Online
Status→Go Offline" from Mail's menu).
Archive Messages:
After starting the script, you will be presented with a list of
your mailboxes - choose the ones you want to archive messages
from using the checkboxes (note: mailboxes which don't contain
any messages will not be displayed in the list).
You now have the option to either perform an "Archive" or an
"Export" of messages in the selected mailboxes. "Archive" moves
the messages into a newly created Archive mailbox with the
current date, "Export" leaves the messages in the mailboxes and
generates text files in a location you can select.
After selecting either of the buttons, you will be presented with
a dialog which will allow you to specify options for your archive/
export operation (filter messages based on dates, read and
flagged status, output file format and location for export). Your
selection (other than the dates which default to today for
"before" and one year ago from today for "after") will be
remembered when you run the script again.
Note on export file formats: if you want to import your mail
messages into another mail client, choose "mbox", a standard
mailbox format which can be read by most programs. If you only
care about the message text and want to minimize the overhead for
your archive, select "text" and your files will be much smaller
and easier to read. For a nicer looking text version, choose
"rich text" files - this also gives you the option to include
attachments.
When selecting "One File per Message" for exporting messages to
text files, the naming of the resulting files can be defined by
the user. Certain placeholders can be used to access message-
specific information:
%f: "From" header (the sender of the message)
%t: "To" header (the recipient of the message)
%p: Sender or Recipient (sender for received messages, recipient
for sent messages)
%s: "Subject" header (the subject of the message)
%d, %m, %M, %y, %Y: day, month (numerical or as text), and year
(2- and 4-digit, respectively) of the message date
In order to keep the previous file naming convention, use the
default "%f, %M %d, %Y - %s". To have messages sort by date and
then by person, use something like "%Y-%m-%d, %p - %s". You will
see the file name for the first message in your selected
mailboxes resulting from the selected settings just below the
file name field.
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Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
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