Re: powermail-discuss Digest #1849 - 06/25/04

[Bill Stecher]

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>Subject: Re: powermail-discuss Digest #1724 - 02/02/04
>From: "Bill Stecher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:14:58 -0400
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>Help! I have an email which crashes the program when I click on it. How
>do I get rid of it??
>
>Bill Stecher

Thanx to all who answered so promptly. Before I had a chance to use any
of your suggestions [which I now remember worked some time in the past],
I dragged the offending item into the trash [which it wouldn't let me do
last night, when simply selecting it caused the problem], and it
disappeared. Hooray!

Bill Stecher
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Re: AppleScripts

[Marlyse Comte]

Try "Taco HTML Edit" - a freebee. If you can handcode, this might be all
you need, it's a great tool and still faster than fully handcoding in a
text editor.

---marlyse

 former message(s) quotes: -

>I like my .Mac subscription, but hand-coding HTML is much easier to get
>the results you want than .Mac's HomePage tool. The site will probably
>change when I get over my Classic/OS 9 aversion and install my old copy
>of DreamWeaver 4. I heard it was buggy and slow in Classic, so I've never
>tried it with my PowerBook. Else, I may break down and upgrade it, though
>I don't do HTML much these days.

Re: AppleScripts (Bug)

[cheshirekat]

On Fri, Jun 25, 200412:03, the following words from computer artwork by
subhash [EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ...

>[cheshirekat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 25.6.2004 um 3:17 Uhr:]
>
>>I didn't binhex any files. The text file is just a .txt file and I didn't
>>compress or encode it in any way.
>
>Then .Mac did. The link points to ".cv/cheshirekat/Public/AppleScriptsDescribed.txt-binhex.hqx>" which is
>not a text file but an BinHex compressed file.
>
>But I see you described the scripts now in HTML. Thank you for your
efforts!!!

Your earlier comment about the hqx file extension is what made me go
investigate. From my end, it wasn't apparent .Mac was doing stuff to my
files behind my back until I began to scrutinize everything. I did wonder
(very briefly) why the files were so small, but when I couldn't read the
file names, I assumed they had some kind of "super" file server. 

I might be better off letting people copy and paste the scripts directly,
instead of downloading the files. But since I haven't had any sleep, I'll
decide any changes later. Hopefully, there won't be any problems with the
scripts themselves. I'm quite certain that PM users will ferret out any
errors I may have made cleaning the scripts for public usability. You all
can be a picky bunch. 
;-)

Thanks for your help.
-- 
A stream is music and motion: smooth glides, fast, turbulent riffles and
deep pools, each posing a special challenge. 
- Nelson Bryant

* 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram *
* Addictions: iTunes 4 * WarCraft * The Sims * FileMaker Pro

Re: AppleScripts (Bug)

[cheshirekat]

On Fri, Jun 25, 200411:47, the following words from Charles Watts-Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ...

>Stuffit expanded 'PoboxSpamTagRemover.scpt.sitx-binhex.hqx' OK too.  When
>I tried to look at it in Smile, I got Error -39 which, I believe, is an
>indication that the EOF marker is reached before the end of the file. 
>Maybe this arises because the file was compressed with an OS X version of
>Stuffit(?).  My interest here is to look at and possibly modify the
>script to use with PM 4.2.1.  If modification is not practicable, then
>I'll forget it.  If however it is, could it be uploaded (or sent off-
>line) as an old fashioned .sit file please.  

Well, it seems that .Mac assumes that the users won't compress their
files, so they compress all files that will be accessed in web pages
which might have caused some corruption. I didn't realize that as I
always compress before uploading. So, everything got compressed several
times, as you can tell by the file names. They don't make it easy to read
the file names in the midst of the editing. My iDisk's Public folder view
also doesn't show the additional compression. I ran several tests before
figuring this one out because I'm just not used to someone trying to out-
think what I think I should do with my files.

I may have to rethink this .Mac strategy because I'm stubborn AND I have
control issues. 

The PoboxSpamTagRemover.scpt is simple, and yes, I've been using it a
long time, so it should work in 4.2.1 which I was just using just a few
short weeks ago. This is one of the scripts I created way back when I was
using Emailer :

to getTheLastWords(passedText)
if the passedText contains "spam score" and the passedText contains
"pobox] " then
set the desiredLastWords to (characters 27 thru -1 of (the 
passedText))
as text
return the desiredLastWords
else
return "Not Spam!"
end if
end getTheLastWords

tell application "PowerMail"
set the targetList to the current messages
set the msgCount to count the targetList
if the msgCount is greater than 0 then
repeat with targetMsg in the targetList
set the targetsSub to the subject of the targetMsg
set the lastWords to getTheLastWords(targetsSub) of me
if the lastWords is not "Not Spam!" then
try
set the subject of the targetMsg to the 
lastWords
on error
beep
end try
else
say the lastWords
end if
end repeat
else
say "No messages selected."
end if
end tell

Hope this works for you - only a few lines.

Now I have to go file a suggestion/feedback to Apple.

cheshirekat
-- 
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the
memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. 

- Thomas Beecham (1879-1961), British conductor. quoted in Sunday Times
(London, Sept. 16, 1962). 

* 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram *

Re(2): AppleScripts (Bug)

[computer artwork by subhash]

[cheshirekat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 25.6.2004 um 3:17 Uhr:]

>I didn't binhex any files. The text file is just a .txt file and I didn't
>compress or encode it in any way.

Then .Mac did. The link points to "" which is
not a text file but an BinHex compressed file.

But I see you described the scripts now in HTML. Thank you for your efforts!!!

-- 
http://www.subhash.at

Re(2): AppleScripts (Bug)

[Charles Watts-Jones]

Thank you cheshirekat for making these scripts available.

On 25 June Subhash wrote:

>No, one cannot download the text file. I tried the script
>"TextSelection2NewSmileDoc.sF452", that works. Why give the text file for
>download? Just upload the .txt version without .hqx and everything should
>work fine. A person interested in AppleScripts is able to save a text in
>a browser window I think.

The file 'AppleScriptsDescribed.txt-binhex.hqx' downloaded fine under OS
9 with Mozilla (WaMCom).  The file name is too long for my ancient system
but Stuffit 7  handled it OK with the usual aplomb.  And Tex-Edit
converted those pesky LFs to CRs.

Stuffit expanded 'PoboxSpamTagRemover.scpt.sitx-binhex.hqx' OK too.  When
I tried to look at it in Smile, I got Error -39 which, I believe, is an
indication that the EOF marker is reached before the end of the file. 
Maybe this arises because the file was compressed with an OS X version of
Stuffit(?).  My interest here is to look at and possibly modify the
script to use with PM 4.2.1.  If modification is not practicable, then
I'll forget it.  If however it is, could it be uploaded (or sent off-
line) as an old fashioned .sit file please.  

-- Charles

Re: AppleScripts (Bug)

[cheshirekat]

On Fri, Jun 25, 200410:03, the following words from computer artwork by
subhash [EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ...

>Why give the text file for
>download? Just upload the .txt version without .hqx and everything should
>work fine.

I didn't binhex any files. The text file is just a .txt file and I didn't
compress or encode it in any way. I'll delete the text file again and see
if it will take a new text file without problems.

-- 
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. 
- Robert Fripp 

* 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram *
* Addictions: iTunes 4 * WarCraft * The Sims * FileMaker Pro

Re(2): AppleScripts (Bug)

[computer artwork by subhash]

[cheshirekat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 25.6.2004 um 1:45 Uhr:]

>Hmm. I don't know why you got that error. But, I've hopefully fixed it -

No, one cannot download the text file. I tried the script
"TextSelection2NewSmileDoc.sF452", that works. Why give the text file for
download? Just upload the .txt version without .hqx and everything should
work fine. A person interested in AppleScripts is able to save a text in
a browser window I think.

sincerely
Subhash

-- 
http://www.subhash.at

Re: AppleScripts (Bug)

[cheshirekat]

On Fri, Jun 25, 200407:58, the following words from computer artwork by
subhash [EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ...

>[cheshirekat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 24.6.2004 um 23:20 Uhr:]
>
>>I've placed a few of the AppleScripts I've written on my .Mac home page
>>if anyone is interested.
>
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>
>Very fine, but I would like to preview the text file
>"AppleScriptsDescribed.txt". I tried to dowload it and get an error
>"We're sorry, but we can't find the HomePage you've requested.".

Hmm. I don't know why you got that error. But, I've hopefully fixed it -
with a work-around. Let me know if something is still wrong. I obviously
haven't used the file sharing part of .Mac. I usually just store files
that I needed to get to from different places. The .Mac service is much
cheaper than what I was paying to have my own domain where I actually
enjoyed creating the pages, but had much less storage space. 

cheshirekat
-- 
Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers. 
- Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984). 

* 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram *
* Addictions: iTunes 4 * WarCraft * The Sims * FileMaker Pro

Re: AppleScripts (Bug)

[computer artwork by subhash]

[cheshirekat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 24.6.2004 um 23:20 Uhr:]

>I've placed a few of the AppleScripts I've written on my .Mac home page
>if anyone is interested.

>

Very fine, but I would like to preview the text file
"AppleScriptsDescribed.txt". I tried to dowload it and get an error
"We're sorry, but we can't find the HomePage you've requested.".

-- 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
computer artwork by subhash 
   http://www.subhash.at 
   High Power Projection 
Screen | Web | GrafikDesign
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

AppleScripts

[cheshirekat]

I've placed a few of the AppleScripts I've written on my .Mac home page
if anyone is interested. The choices are sparse for now, but it is a start.



P.S.

I like my .Mac subscription, but hand-coding HTML is much easier to get
the results you want than .Mac's HomePage tool. The site will probably
change when I get over my Classic/OS 9 aversion and install my old copy
of DreamWeaver 4. I heard it was buggy and slow in Classic, so I've never
tried it with my PowerBook. Else, I may break down and upgrade it, though
I don't do HTML much these days.
-- 
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. 
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958) 

* 867 PowerBook G4 * OS X 10.2.8 * 768 MB Ram *

Re: Msg crashes PM (was: powermail-discuss Digest #1724 - 02/02/04)

[Gerald F. Carroll]

This is something that has worked for me in the past. What i do is a good
message below it i select this messgae. Then using the shift key i select
the bad message  which has both messages selected so neither one is
displayed. Then i move them both to the trash. Then i go in and get the
good message back. By having the used a message below the bad message PM
won't try to display the bad message. then i empty the trash without ever
trying to do anything with the bad message. It's sort of convuluted but
it seems to work for me.

gerry

>Bill Stecher / 04.6.24 / 9:14PM wrote:
>
>>Help! I have an email which crashes the program when I click on it. How
>>do I get rid of it??
>
>Since you get instant crash, mine might be different from yours, but
>
>I have been fighting with this for two weeks now.  One message gives me
>memory error when clicked.  I never turn HTML option.  This message is 1
>year old.  I can't delete it.  If I try to delete it, PM vm jumps into
>2.5GB and gives me memory error.  PMSalvage app didn't work out for me. 
>I am totally out of option right now.
>
>-- 
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>- Hiro
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-- 
The faster the computer
The more impatient the user.

Re: Msg crashes PM (was: powermail-discuss Digest #1724 - 02/02/04)

[A-NO-NE Music]

Bill Stecher / 04.6.24 / 9:14PM wrote:

>Help! I have an email which crashes the program when I click on it. How
>do I get rid of it??

Since you get instant crash, mine might be different from yours, but

I have been fighting with this for two weeks now.  One message gives me
memory error when clicked.  I never turn HTML option.  This message is 1
year old.  I can't delete it.  If I try to delete it, PM vm jumps into
2.5GB and gives me memory error.  PMSalvage app didn't work out for me. 
I am totally out of option right now.

-- 

- Hiro

[PROTECTED]
<[PROTECTED]> <[PROTECTED]>

Re: powermail-discuss Digest #1724 - 02/02/04

[Jim Pistrang]

Hi Bill,

>Help! I have an email which crashes the program when I click on it. How
>do I get rid of it??

Try turning off the preference that enables html reader.  (not sure if
this is the answer, but I have a vague memory of this coming up on the list)

Jim
-- 
Jim Pistrang
JP Computer Resources
413-256-4569
http://users.crocker.com/~pistrang

Re: powermail-discuss Digest #1724 - 02/02/04

[Matthias Schmidt]

Bill,

go to preferences and deactivate html display.
or use a 2 pane display, mark it and delete it.

All the best

Matthias

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Am/On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 03:14:58 +0200 schrieb/wrote Bill Stecher:

>Help! I have an email which crashes the program when I click on it. How
>do I get rid of it??
>
>Bill Stecher

Re: powermail-discuss Digest #1724 - 02/02/04

[Bill Stecher]

Help! I have an email which crashes the program when I click on it. How
do I get rid of it??

Bill Stecher
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