A Way to Use Spotlight with Entourage

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Title: A Way to Use Spotlight with Entourage

Although it is known that Spotlight will not index the Entourage database, it might make sense to export individual emails that have an assigned Project to their respective project folders in the Finder, thereby allowing indexing of those (probably important) emails by Spotlight.

Does anyone have an idea of how this might be accomplished with an AppleScript? The problem that I foresee would be that even if a script could look for all messages, notes, To-Do’s, and calendar items with an assigned project and export them to the appropriate Finder folders, the handling of duplicates is very problematic. How could a script determine whether a message had been previously exported without altering the message? Or could it assign a “dummy” category as a non-primary category to indicate that it had been exported?

Not being a scripting expert, I would imagine that the script could be invoked to allow the assigning of a project and at the same time export the email, retaining the original in the Entourage database. This would obviate the need for searching for all items in all projects. You’d only have to manually export pre-existing items. All new items would be exported when a project is assigned. Are there any steps that AppleScript cannot presently handle?

Any scripting experts care to comment on the feasibility of this?
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