Paul, Finally got a chance to try you scripts! I used the "Messages Export from X" script to save all the files in a folder. Then read them back in with "Messages Import into X". It worked, and the Read/Unread status was retained. But, the Replied/Forwarded status and associated details were not retained Also, the Received column showed today's date, not the date the message was received. Is this as expected? sgr
> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:39:07 -0700 > To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Problems with .mbox files > > You didn't read my message carefully. I did not tell you to run "Folders > Export X" script, I told you to run "Messages Export X" script. Check below. > You ran the wrong script. > > If you want to know the differences between the two scripts, it's in the > ReadMe. It's only Messages Export X that gets all those details. > > -- > Paul Berkowitz > MVP MacOffice > Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> > AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> > > PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - > **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions > otherwise. > > >> From: Stephen Rayment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:39:40 -0400 >> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Problems with .mbox files >> >> Well, I tried Paul's script... >> It created a Folders Export EvX folder containing a .mbox and a .txt file, >> but... >> The recovered messages have today's date and the Message Status' are blank. >> I think I'm doomed! >> sgr >> >> >>> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:35:29 -0700 >>> To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: Problems with .mbox files >>> >>> On 8/13/04 6:25 AM, "Remo Del Bello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 8/12/04 4:57 PM, Allen Watson deftly typed out: >>>> >>>>> Switch to your alternate identity; drag the archive file from the desktop >>>>> back into Entourage (or onto the Erage dock icon); say Yes to importing. >>>>> It >>>>> will show up as a new folder in your folder list. This method does retain >>>>> the read/unread status, actual received time, and so on. It may not retain >>>>> category; it certain will not if the new identity has no categories >>>>> defined. >>>>> I have not tried it after defining categories, but I doubt it will work. >>>> >>>> I don't believe this method will save the information Stephen wants to >>>> save. >>>> The MBOX files Entourage creates contain no status information or category >>>> assignments, so they can't possibly be retained. And Entourage's "Received" >>>> time is the time the message is added to the Database, not the time in the >>>> topmost Received header. That's the reason you and Barry were working on >>>> that script to reassign the Received time. >>>> >>>> I don't think that what Stephen is asking for is possible without an >>>> AppleScript that saves that information in a secondary export file that can >>>> then be read in by another script to assign the values to the newly >>>> imported >>>> messages. I still have to question the necessity of it all, though... >>> >>> Right. I've been following this thread with interest, since it didn't make >>> sense to me. AFAIK, Entourage's new "Archive" saves all items in standard >>> formats (message folders as mbox, contacts as vCards, etc.) and, as Remo >>> says, mboxes do not keep that proprietary information. Having not done any >>> mail archives, I took someone's word here that the .rge files did somehow >>> store this info. But I'm not at all surprised to find that they don't. >>> >>> Now, you could get my "Export-Import Entourage X" scripts (they work also >>> with 2004). >>> >>> The "Messages Export X" and "Message Import X" scripts, applied to folders >>> one at a time, will indeed store most of the info you want in a support >>> file, and will recreate it all when you import back in with Messages Import >>> X. It has Received, Replied-To, etc. etc. It will export and import messages >>> with all message categories (even custom categories applied manually or by >>> Rule after messages were received), sent and read status, flags and priority >>> all intact. They also set the Account of received messages properly to the >>> account which uses the same email address in the importing identity as in >>> the exporting identity, if present here, so that replies go out from the >>> correct email address (to which they were sent) and not always from your >>> default account. But it doesn't have links, since the items it used to link >>> to may no longer exist, or may have different ID numbers if you've done a >>> rebuild in the meantime (certainly the case for messages being recreated by >>> the script). >>> >>> You can get "Export-Import Entourage X" (shareware) at >>> >>> MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Paul Berkowitz >>> MVP MacOffice >>> Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> >>> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> >>> >>> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - >>> **2004**, X or 2001. 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