Mcarthur,
Fri Feb 13 09:13:43 CST 2004
Allen,
After posting my thank you message, I checked your many Entourage scripts
and tried Many to TextEdit file(v1.0.1). Does EXACTLY what I want!
Thanks again.
Cindy
On 2/13/04 9:07 AM, in article BC524468.1B36%Cindy_Mcarthur@mcgraw-hill.com,
"Mcarthur, Cindy" <Cindy_Mcarthur@mcgraw-hill.com> wrote:
> Hi Allen,
>
> I didn't know you were a contributor here. What I really wanted was your
> Many to BBedit script but couldn't find it on your Earthlink web site. I
> found it on your mac.com site today - thanks for posting the URL here.
>
> Ideally, I'd like the emails to be saved to a file, but since I'm eventually
> opening it in BBedit anyway, I'll just get used to having it open
> automatically in that application. And I was able to remove the Courier
> formatting in your script.
>
> Thanks for your suggestion of dragging the folder of emails to the desktop.
> I tried this but the text file included too much garbage.
>
> Thanks for writing great useful AppleScripts!
>
> Cindy
>
> On 2/12/04 8:17 PM, in article
> allenw-D6A57E.18172512022004@msnews.microsoft.com, "Allen Watson"
> <allenw@mvps.org> wrote:
>
>> In article <BC510511.1A1C%Cindy_Mcarthur@mcgraw-hill.com>,
>> "Mcarthur, Cindy" <Cindy_Mcarthur@mcgraw-hill.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to find an AppleScript which saves multiple mail messages into
>>> one text file. I don't need or want the messages formatted or changed in any
>>> way.
>>>
>>> All I could find is Allen Watson's script, "Entourage Many to Word" but it
>>> does a bit too much (formatting, opening in Word).
>>>
>>> "Save as" only works with one message at a time.
>>
>> Couple suggestions:
>>
>> 1. My Entourage Many to Word script can be easily modified to not mess
>> with the message formatting. If the message is in HTML, no script can
>> easily retain the formatting (you'd need a browser to read it anyway),
>> so HTML gets changed to plain text, but other than that:
>>
>> At the top of the script (opened in Script Editor) make sure the
>> rewrapping property is set to false, like this:
>>
>> property rewrapping : false
>>
>> If you do not like having the message font displayed in 10-point Courier
>> and prefer your own default font and point size, near the bottom, delete
>> these lines from within the quotation marks of the Visual Basic macro:
>>
>> With activedocument
>> .Content.Font.Name = \"Courier\"
>> .Content.Font.Size = 10
>> End With
>>
>> The macro should now read just this:
>>
>> do Visual Basic ("ActiveDocument.Content.paste")
>>
>> Be sure to get the latest version from my iDisk folder at
>> <
http://homepage.mac.com/allen_a_watson/FileSharing3.html>
>> Look in /Scripts/Enrourage v X for EntourageManytoWordv1.3.sit
>>
>>
>> 2. If you really don't want anything at all stripped out of the
>> messages, try simply selecting a folder full of messages and dragging
>> the folder to your Desktop. It creates a "mailbox" file, which is simply
>> a text file in a particular standard format for mail. You can read it in
>> a text editor, Word, or in several different mail programs. If you need
>> to copy just some of the messages in a folder, you will have to move
>> them to a temporary folder first, then move them back, which isn't a big
>> deal.
>>
>> I have another script that will archive selected folders to mailbox
>> files. It actually moves the messages to a temporary folder, saves the
>> folder to the Desktop, and then moves all the messages back where they
>> came from. You can set it to archive only messages older than a certain
>> number of days, if you like, and to delete the messages after they have
>> been archived. It works really fast. I've not posted this script
>> previously because I didn't want to be bothered with questions about
>> enhancements, but if you want it, you can find it on the same iDisk
>> under the name "Archive Folders".
>