Deleting Multiple Folders At Once?

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darrylray

I have several thousand folders in my Entourage folders listing, many
with the same first name like "Cisco" or "AVST". Each folder holds
e-mails that I received about particular topics or projects. I now want
to delete many of them as easily as possible. So far I haven't figured
out a way to highlight a group of folders and erase them with one click
of the mouse. Why? Every other program in the world allows you to
highlight multiple sentences, multiple paragraphs, or groups of
folders. Why doesn't Entourage seem to allow that?
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

I have several thousand folders in my Entourage folders listing, many
with the same first name like "Cisco" or "AVST". Each folder holds
e-mails that I received about particular topics or projects. I now want
to delete many of them as easily as possible. So far I haven't figured
out a way to highlight a group of folders and erase them with one click
of the mouse. Why? Every other program in the world allows you to
highlight multiple sentences, multiple paragraphs, or groups of
folders. Why doesn't Entourage seem to allow that?
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It can be done with an applescript:

set theFolders to every folder whose name contains "test"
delete theFolders

Will work for all folders with "test" in their name at the top level of the
hierarchy, and a script could be written to recursively traverse the local
folder hierarchy. This also works with IMAP folders - I haven't checked
whether or not it works with Exchange folders yet, but I see no reason why
not.

Can you script, or will you need some help to set this up?
 
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darrylray

Barry:
I've never worked with scripts, but would be happy to try. What would
you suggest?
Thanks!
 
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