On 4/11/03 8:32 pm, "Laurie A. Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a project I am working on right now which requires hundreds of > attachments (screen shots) to be sent to me by hundreds of different people, > all of whom have a very bad habit of not renaming the files to something > more descriptive than "Picture1.pdf". When I save all these attachments to > file, it leaves me with a folder full of files with mostly the same name, > plus a sequence number. This is not helpful to me at all since I need to > reference the person who sent each attachment and I have no easy way to do > that :( > > Is there a script out there that I haven't found on my own yet that will > > A) save the attachment to a folder I have specified > B) rename the saved attachment to a string and sequence I specify > C) insert the name of the renamed file into the email, which is still in > Entourage, so that I can reference which file belongs to which email. > > Is there such a beast? Is this even possible? If it is possible but doesn't > exist, are any script builders in the mood to help me out with a script? > > Thank you, > > Laurie There is no ready made script such as you describe. However, the script 'Claris It' (or 'Friendlier Claris It') will do most of what you want (saving attachments to disk and 'tagging' the message). Take a look at this and see if it's a good enough starting point for you to 'roll your own'. -- Barry -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
