What about exporting as PowerMail Exchange including attachments, the deleting
the whole lot and importing again?
It is a bit a roundabout way, and it will take a lot of time for a large
archive, but it should work, or am I wrong?
Mirko
On 22 nov 2010, at 23:24, CTM info wrote:
> Peter,
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:31:49 -0500, Peter Lovell wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there's a way to identify orphans?
>>
>> Anyone know of one? Perhaps CTM has a suggestion?
>
> The behavior is that message moved to PowerMail's mail trash should see
> their attachments moved to the Finder trash upon emptying PowerMail's
> trash. This was done so that there would be two layers of protection
> against inadvertant destruction of attachments.
>
> And no, there is no way to identify orphans since, precisely, they are
> orphaned.
>
> What I do use to keep the Mail Attachments folder under control is the
> "Find duplicates" feature of FileBuddy, which will compare the dataforks
> of attachments by content and let you select for instance only the
> newest ones, then delete them in one go. This will at least get rid of
> duplicates, with however the risk that one of the duplicate files may be
> the file referenced by a message as its attachment.
>
> Regards,
>
> jean michel
>
>
