archiving question

B

Brian Donohue

In Outlook on a PC, it will pop up a window stating that you have a lot of
old emails, "would you like to archive them now?" It then lets you archive
based on date.

Does Entourage have this same feature? I know it can archive, but can I
define the date(s) and can it automatically pop up a warning like Outlook
does?

Thx
 
M

matt neuburg

Brian Donohue said:
In Outlook on a PC, it will pop up a window stating that you have a lot of
old emails, "would you like to archive them now?" It then lets you archive
based on date.

Does Entourage have this same feature? I know it can archive, but can I
define the date(s) and can it automatically pop up a warning like Outlook
does?
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You can certainly have Entourage pop up a periodic reminder (it's a
calendar program, remember?), and you can certainly archive and delete
all messages older than a certain date in a single easy move, so I guess
the answer would be Yes. m.
 
B

Brian Donohue

Heh, ok great. How?


:)





You can certainly have Entourage pop up a periodic reminder (it's a
calendar program, remember?), and you can certainly archive and delete
all messages older than a certain date in a single easy move, so I guess
the answer would be Yes. m.
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B

Brian Donohue

By the way, the pop reminder feature I'm talking about from Outlook isn't a
calendar thing... it is it's own function.
 
K

kainewynd2[at]gmail.com

And may I add, what an annoying feature it is. However, I've found the
easiest way to do an archive of your data is to just write an
Applescript (or shell script) and schedule it using the Applescript
feature in iCal (or cron). An example simple applescript is below:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
quit
end tell
do shell script "ditto /Users/$USER/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/
/Backup/Location"
delay 10

or shell script:
#!/bin/bash
ditto /Users/$USER/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data/ /Backup/Location

I didn't double check those scripts so you'll want to make sure that
works.

Mike


Schedule something like that and you should be golden.
 
B

Brian Donohue

Heh, I agree it can get annoying sometimes. I believe you can turn it off in
Outlook though.

Anyway, thanks for the script ideas :)
 
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