Drag and drop

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Rudolf Hecken

I would like to know where an item ends up that I wanted to drag from my
Entourage INBOX and drop it in some other specific FOLDER but failed to do
it correctly (e.g. Letting the Hold bar of the PB go to early, or not
finding exactly the FOLDER with the pointer). It happened to me several
times that that particular item disappeared completely. At least, I have
not been able to retrieve it yet. Please help if anybody has an idea what
is going on.
 
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Diane Ross

I would like to know where an item ends up that I wanted to drag from my
Entourage INBOX and drop it in some other specific FOLDER but failed to do it
correctly (e.g. Letting the Hold bar of the PB go to early, or not finding
exactly the FOLDER with the pointer). It happened to me several times that
that particular item disappeared completely. At least, I have not been able
to retrieve it yet. Please help if anybody has an idea what is going on.
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Command-z is the Apple "undo". It will undo the last action.

When you say some other specific FOLDER, is this a folder in Entourage or on
your computer?

If it's in Entourage you can do a custom Mail view search. Be sure to check
under View --> Columns --> Folders.

Learn About Custom Views

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/custom_views/index.html>

Another option if you can find a message:

With the message selected, run this script.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
set theItem to storage of theMessage
set containerPath to {subject of theMessage, name of theItem}
repeat
try
set theItem to parent of theItem
copy name of theItem to end of containerPath
on error
exit repeat
end try
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"/"}
set pathList to (reverse of containerPath) as text
display dialog "Path to selected message is:" & return & pathList
buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end tell

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>
 
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Rudolf Hecken

Hi,

Thank you for your assistance. With ³specific FOLDER² I meant a subfolder I
created in Entourage. I will learn as you suggested about the custom views.
BTW, I never had a problem dragging a message into another folder on my
machine, which is interesting. Will let you know what happened with my
disappearing messages once I understand what is going on.

Rudolf


Diane Ross wrote on 4/17/07 10:48 PM
 
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Diane Ross

Thank you for your assistance. With ³specific FOLDER² I meant a subfolder I
created in Entourage. I will learn as you suggested about the custom views.
BTW, I never had a problem dragging a message into another folder on my
machine, which is interesting. Will let you know what happened with my
disappearing messages once I understand what is going on.
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When you drag a message out of Entourage to the Finder, it creates an MBOX
file if there are multiple messages or a single message is an .eml file.

More on using MBOX files:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/index.html#mbox>
--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>
 
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