What if you want a rule to be periodically run(e.g. moving the contents of a
folder to someplace else)? This is not an scheduling option. In fact, I
don't understand why the list of things you can schedule is so limited?
By writing a one-or-two line AppleScript and getting a Schedule to run that,
you can do virtually anything available in Rules. In order to for rules to
run automatically they are set up to run on one message at a time. In order
to get them to run on "the contents of a folder" manually, you first have to
select all the messages in that folder. Then Message/Apply Rules/Apply That
Rule actually runs over and over again on each message you selected. The
rule doesn't "know" about the other messages.
It's not something that most people do with schedules. But you can. Here's
how:
Go to Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor. Into its window, paste:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
move every message of folder "A" to folder "B"
end tell
If one or the other is actually a subfolder, you have to do it like this:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
move every message of (folder "C" of folder "A") to (folder "D" of
folder "B")
end tell
If the first folder is on an IMAP server, it's more complicated, and you
can't move or copy to an IMAP folder - must be to local.
Save your script as a Compiled Script (the default) and save it to
[HD]/Users/[username]/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script
Menu Items/
Then make your schedule, and set its action to "Run AppleScript", click
"ScriptŠ" button and browse to this script. Run the schedule once manually
to see that it works as intended.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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