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Authored by: maclaw on May 09, '02 10:17:32AM

This ability to drag and drop archive would be great except that it does not retain the received date information. When you import, all received dates are updated to the time of your import, which sort of makes sense, but it's probably more interesting for me to know when I received a message (not always the same as when it was sent) rather than when I last imported the archive. Anyone know a way to archive Entourage messages without losing the original receive date?



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Authored by: kolakowski on May 09, '02 11:25:27AM
This is not a "new" capability to Entourage X see this MacTopia Hint I used to use GNU-Emacs Rmail all the time (which BTW works in OSX) and that has no problem importing entourage MBOX files with the correct dates. The date problem is a bug in Entourage (a feature maybe?). I don't know of a way to keep the date exactly, but you can use a script called ArchivetoSubfolders1.2 from Steve Riggins at Geeks R Us. This script seems not to be in the list at AppleScriptCentral and says nothing about being functional in OS X. If you really needed more granularity, you could alter the script to make sub-folders by the month. The other tool need is a script that would run as a cron job to rebuild to Entourage database. Here is my process -
  1. Take large folder run ArchivetoSubfolders with 6 month intervals
  2. Export folders older than 2 years out to mbox files
  3. Compress mbox files using gzip (must us tar zcvf name.tgz mbox_file as mbox sometimes has attachments in folder)
  4. Delete archived subfolders
  5. Rebuild database


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Authored by: snarke on Sep 24, '02 03:54:02PM

I wrote a script to deal with exactly the situation you describe.

http://macscripter.net/sb_search.t?keyword=archive+selected&go=Search

I'm afraid I don't have Entourage v.X yet, so I haven't written an OSX version, but the script currently saves messages out individually (although you can select a whole lot of them for archiving), and sets the 'creation' date of the files to the 'Received' date of the message, so you can sort them in the Finder chronologically.



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