QuickLook and Entourage Mail Messages

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rbendalin

I was hoping that QuickLook would work with Entourage mail messages
after this update to 12.0.1, but it does not. Does it work for
anyone? It works for Excel, Word and PowerPoint files, so I cannot
imagine that it isn't supposed to work for Entourage mail messages.
Somebody please tell me it works (and then tell me how to fix it!).

Thanks.
 
J

John C. Welch

I was hoping that QuickLook would work with Entourage mail messages
after this update to 12.0.1, but it does not. Does it work for
anyone? It works for Excel, Word and PowerPoint files, so I cannot
imagine that it isn't supposed to work for Entourage mail messages.
Somebody please tell me it works (and then tell me how to fix it!).
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Where are the messages? If they're in E'rage, then no, there's no quicklook
functionality in the application.
 
R

rbendalin

Where are the messages? If they're in E'rage, then no, there's no quicklook
functionality in the application.
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I know there is not a Quicklook function in Entourage. I am talking
about messages listed in the Finder. If you do a Spotlight search on
your computer, it will list Entourage messages (in addition to
documents, etc) that contain the search terms. In the resulting
finder window, you can use Quicklook on virtually every file type
(Word docs, excel spreadsheets, pdf's, Apple Mail Messages, jpg files,
etc.) but you cannot use quicklook on the Entourage messages (they are
called called "vrge_08 message" in the Kind column of the finder).
 
W

William Smith

I know there is not a Quicklook function in Entourage. I am talking
about messages listed in the Finder. If you do a Spotlight search on
your computer, it will list Entourage messages (in addition to
documents, etc) that contain the search terms. In the resulting
finder window, you can use Quicklook on virtually every file type
(Word docs, excel spreadsheets, pdf's, Apple Mail Messages, jpg files,
etc.) but you cannot use quicklook on the Entourage messages (they are
called called "vrge_08 message" in the Kind column of the finder).
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You're looking at the cache files created by Entourage for Spotlight.
Quick Look will not work with these because the file extension is not
recognized. Even if you could read view the file it is a text file in
XML format. Very difficult to read.

For now, your only option when finding one of these messages is to
simply let it open in Entourage rather than Quick Look.

Hope this helps!

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
 
M

mandebooks

You're looking at the cache files created by Entourage for Spotlight.
Quick Look will not work with these because the file extension is not
recognized. Even if you could read view the file it is a text file in
XML format. Very difficult to read.

For now, your only option when finding one of these messages is to
simply let it open in Entourage rather than Quick Look.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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If you drag-and-drop a message out of Entourage you can quicklook it
if it has the .eml extension on it. If it doesn't have the extension
Quicklook will not work.

Randy R.
 
R

rbendalin

You're looking at the cache files created by Entourage for Spotlight.
Quick Look will not work with these because the file extension is not
recognized. Even if you could read view the file it is a text file in
XML format. Very difficult to read.

For now, your only option when finding one of these messages is to
simply let it open in Entourage rather than Quick Look.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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I have to say that all of the responses I have been getting about this
seem to accede to the impossibility of this (or give unworkable work-
arounds). It is almost as if everyone just gives up, saying its too
hard, or cant be done. I am pleased, however, to announce that not
only can it be done, it has been! I downloaded and installed the
Entourage QuickLook generatoir at the following link, and it works
perfectly.

http://homepage.mac.com/nekome/freeware.html

I thank the author of the plug-in for making this available.
 
C

Corentin Cras-Méneur

I downloaded and installed the
Entourage QuickLook generatoir at the following link, and it works
perfectly.

http://homepage.mac.com/nekome/freeware.html

I thank the author of the plug-in for making this available.
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I found this one too yesterday. Very nice indeed. I love the fact that I
can now search in Spotlight and then use QuickLook to peek inside the
result without havong to open it in Entourage.

Corentin
 
W

William Smith

I have to say that all of the responses I have been getting about this
seem to accede to the impossibility of this (or give unworkable work-
arounds). It is almost as if everyone just gives up, saying its too
hard, or cant be done. I am pleased, however, to announce that not
only can it be done, it has been! I downloaded and installed the
Entourage QuickLook generatoir at the following link, and it works
perfectly.

http://homepage.mac.com/nekome/freeware.html

I thank the author of the plug-in for making this available.
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This is indeed a nice little plug-in!

I'm adding a write-up on it to the Entourage Help Blog:

"View Entourage mail in the Finder with a Quick Look plug-in"
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008...l_in_the_finder_with_a_quick_look_plugin.html>

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
 
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