Entourage AutoArchive

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michael.rosendale

Is there a way to setup AutoArchive in Entrourage? Is there a script
out there to do this?
The e-mail is hosted on an Exchange server.
Thanks!
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Andy Ruff said:
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Good timing. I just whipped a script together last night that does exactly
this (keep in mind this script isn't really tested thoroughly).
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Andy, you ROCK!!!

Corentin
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Andy Ruff said:
TO CREATE AN AUTO-ARCHIVE SCHEDULE

1. Save the attached AppleScript to your MUD folder
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BTW, I don;t know if it is an encoding issue (since you posted in MIME)
but all I see in your post is a TIFF screen capture... no script.

Corentin
 
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Michel Bintener

BTW, I don;t know if it is an encoding issue (since you posted in MIME)
but all I see in your post is a TIFF screen capture... no script.

Corentin
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Try using a different newsreader, maybe; in Entourage, you can see a TIFF
file AND a script.
 
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mmmmark

Try using a different newsreader, maybe; in Entourage, you can see a TIFF
file AND a script.
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FWIW, it shows the TIFF and TWO scripts in Outlook Express in XP. (one is
480 b, and the other is 21 Kb).

Calculating average number of scripts:
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Michel Bintener said:
Try using a different newsreader, maybe; in Entourage, you can see a TIFF
file AND a script.
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Nice! thanks. It's interesting that out of the *numerous* newsreaders I
have on my Mac, only Entourage managed to get the second attachment.

Corentin
 
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Paul Berkowitz

FWIW, it shows the TIFF and TWO scripts in Outlook Express in XP. (one is
480 b, and the other is 21 Kb).
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The "other" is not a script - it's the resource fork of the script file,
which Windows doesn't understand and thinks is a separate file. This happens
with any Mac file that has a resource fork, and has happened ever since
1984. In OS X, far fewer Mac files have resource forks any more (not needed
by most apps in OS X), but some legacy apps like Entourage still require
them. Script Editor will not even make .scpt scripts with resource forks any
more (since Panther) but to run a script from Entourage's script menu and
preserve changes to script properties they still need a resource fork (1),
which can now only be made in Script Debugger, which Andy must have (2).

(1) Entourage is decrepit this way, but it's because Entourage 2004 is
advertised as running in Jaguar 10.2.8, where the new Panther APIs for
script menus won't work. So instead scripts with properties don't work when
made in Script Editor 2.0 in Panther or Jaguar .

(2) Andy's script doesn't have any script properties: he constantly resets
his globals to the same old unchanging values - so he might as well have
made the script in Script Editor. (And could have used properties, saving
two lines, since they don't get reset).

(3) Andy could have zipped or stuffed his script to avoid all problems
sending it as an attachment.


P.S. There's nothing you can do with an AppleScript on Windows, so why
bother even looking at it in Outlook?


--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
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mmmmark

FWIW, it shows the TIFF and TWO scripts in Outlook Express in XP. (one
The "other" is not a script - it's the resource fork of the script file,
which Windows doesn't understand and thinks is a separate file. This
happens
with any Mac file that has a resource fork, and has happened ever since
1984. In OS X, far fewer Mac files have resource forks any more (not
needed
by most apps in OS X), but some legacy apps like Entourage still require
them. Script Editor will not even make .scpt scripts with resource forks
any
more (since Panther) but to run a script from Entourage's script menu and
preserve changes to script properties they still need a resource fork (1),
which can now only be made in Script Debugger, which Andy must have (2).

(1) Entourage is decrepit this way, but it's because Entourage 2004 is
advertised as running in Jaguar 10.2.8, where the new Panther APIs for
script menus won't work. So instead scripts with properties don't work
when
made in Script Editor 2.0 in Panther or Jaguar .

(2) Andy's script doesn't have any script properties: he constantly resets
his globals to the same old unchanging values - so he might as well have
made the script in Script Editor. (And could have used properties, saving
two lines, since they don't get reset).

(3) Andy could have zipped or stuffed his script to avoid all problems
sending it as an attachment.


P.S. There's nothing you can do with an AppleScript on Windows, so why
bother even looking at it in Outlook?
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This is interesting and educational information about script editor.
Thanks, Paul. I figured it was a resource fork issue--but my comments were
basically poor attempts at humor.

As far as using Outlook Express, my current gainful employment requires the
use of a Windows PC, and I most often watch and post to this newsgroup from
work.

-Mark
 
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Andy Ruff

I whipped the script out in ScriptEditor in Mac OS 10.4.5, so not sure what
happened here. Again, it's not necessarily the most elegant solution but
should give a pretty good idea on how one could do archiving using
AppleScript and Spotlight.

-Andy

--
Andy Ruff
MacBU Program Management
Entourage Weblog: http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/

This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
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michael.rosendale

Andy,

Thanks for posting about the script. Can you zip or stuff it and post
it somewhere? Google's newsreader doesn't show attachments and I don't
have entourage at my home office. Thanks,

Mike
 
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Michel Bintener

Andy,

Thanks for posting about the script. Can you zip or stuff it and post
it somewhere? Google's newsreader doesn't show attachments and I don't
have entourage at my home office. Thanks,

Mike
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I emailed you the script. The email account in your username is functional,
right?
 
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