>There is now the prospect of Classic not being available on future >machines - even on my wife's Mini today. I'd like to still be able to >refer back to the old email that is in the CE database, even without >being able to run CE. What are my options?
Unless she has the brand new Intel mini, then she should be able to run Classic. It is not installed by default anymore on new Macs, but if you pop in your install CDs you can add it as an optional install. None of the Intel based Macs will be able to run Classic, which means there is a REALLY good chance that Classic will not be part of OS 10.5 since it is due out after Apple has fully moved to Intel processors. >I tried printing a few emails to file. They emerged with a .ps >extension. Preview churned for while before converting one to .pdf. >Then I had to save it as a .pdf. This is OK as a minimum. Perhaps >there is a script that could print all my emails to .ps files in >folders that match the folders in the database in CE? When you go to print, there is a choice in the printer dialog for the Save as File settings. In there you can change it to print directly to PDF saving you a step (I do not remember if this is enabled if you don't have a full version of Acrobat installed). >But I would prefer to save the emails as text so that I can cut and >paste old material if necessary. Is that a possibility? - without >copying and pasting each one. - or perhaps a script could do that >copying and pasting while I sleep sometime? There are various scripts out there that will convert your email to text. Either as individual files, or as one giant file, or even to mbox format (which is basically a plain text file). I'd check either my emailer web pages (http://emailer.mythtech.net) or check fog city's web site. There is also a cool tool that will let you export your entire mail database to a FileMaker Pro database. That might be your best option. FMP is fully supported on new machines, and although it is not "Universal" yet, FileMaker Inc is most definitly going to make it such. Plus, the tool to do this comes with a runtime version of FileMaker so you don't have to own a full version if you don't want to. I believe it is available on my web pages, if not, I'm sure it is on Fog City's web site (looke for eMessageArchiver, at least I think that was the name of it) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
