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Another Entourage Question


  • Subject: Another Entourage Question
  • From: Mike Melvin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:45:06 -0500

Hello,
I'm a relative AppleScript newbie (learned it in a HyperCard context years
ago, gave up since then, never got really good), and I have a question about
Entourage:

I am trying to make a backup script for Entourage. Currently, it runs
through my entire folder hierarchy (omitting specified folders), reproduces
the structure in a folder called "Archive", and that works perfectly.

However I'm at a loss as to how to actually get messages in to the folders
efficiently. I tried making a custom view for my criteria, which would be
the best possible solution, but I cannot figure out how to select anything.
Entourage seems to allow altering the selection from a script:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set the selection to {incoming message id 51502, ,
incoming message id 51480}
end tell

This works fine, however getting the message ids of 20000 messages would
take a little while! It would at least be easier (not faster) if I could get
the message id of a given item in a custom view, but that does not seem to
work at all (custom view has no properties aside from name and id).

Ideally, I could switch to the custom view (works from script), select all
(don't know if it works from a script), get the selection, and then
beginning moving the messages. I could, of course, select all manually, but
this would defeat the purpose of automatic backup.

Does anyone have a solution to this dilemma? I'm open to anything that might
work, no matter how much of a hack, since this is only for personal use.

Thanks in advance,
Mike


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