Why do categories not stay assigned after rebuild!?!

C

Carol Carpenter

This is horribly frustrating!!! Why even have the ability to assign
categories when they are temporary!?

Any way to avoid losing assigned categories????
 
B

Barry Wainwright [MVP]

This is horribly frustrating!!! Why even have the ability to assign
categories when they are temporary!?

Any way to avoid losing assigned categories????
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You can avoid losing assigned categories on Exchange Calendar Events by
using some scripts I wrote:
<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/files/storecats.html>

If you are talking about categories for other items, write back with more
details, a similar process may be possible...
 
C

Carol Carpenter

Thank you for this. I am a complete novice ­ this is my first attempt at
using a script.

I¹ve saved the scripts to my ³Entourage Script Menu Items² folder, but when
I go to create the schedule, the ³restore and store event categories² are
grayed out (unavailable) so I cannot choose them for my schedule. What am I
doing wrong or what have I done wrong in saving the scripts? Could it be a
firewall issue?

Thx!
 
G

gapoirrier

The reason that this happens after a rebuild is because your system
treats a rebuild as starting over, it refers back to default settings
and you need to assign categories again.
 
C

Carol Carpenter

Barry,
Along the same lines, is there anyway to save my Entourage formatting after
a rebuild? I can¹t stand viewing all of the columns that the default set up
provides...ie., ³conversation², ³size², ³category², ³project². Though once
again, after a rebuild, all of these columns are back. I also change the
view under ³view/arrange by/show in groups², I don¹t like that view, yet it
too comes back after a rebuild.

Any cures for this?
 
B

Barry Wainwright [MVP]

Unfortunately not ­ these attributes are not accessible to AppleScript.

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting
<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html>




From: Carol Carpenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:35:42 -0500
Conversation: Why do categories not stay assigned after rebuild!?!
Subject: Re: Why do categories not stay assigned after rebuild!?!

Barry,
Along the same lines, is there anyway to save my Entourage formatting after
a rebuild? I can¹t stand viewing all of the columns that the default set up
provides...ie., ³conversation², ³size², ³category², ³project². Though once
again, after a rebuild, all of these columns are back. I also change the
view under ³view/arrange by/show in groups², I don¹t like that view, yet it
too comes back after a rebuild.

Any cures for this?
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

Along the same lines, is there anyway to save my Entourage formatting after a
rebuild? I can¹t stand viewing all of the columns that the default set up
provides...ie., ³conversation², ³size², ³category², ³project². Though once
again, after a rebuild, all of these columns are back. I also change the view
under ³view/arrange by/show in groups², I don¹t like that view, yet it too
comes back after a rebuild.

Any cures for this?
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Preferences are just the sort of thing that get corrupted. That's why
rebuilding a database sets all these back to the defaults, trashing your
possibly-corrupted preferences during the rebuild. And, as Barry says, these
are not scriptable to can't be stored and recreated afterwards like
categories can.

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

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