corrupted messages in Eudora - how to reset status w/ AS? (answer)
corrupted messages in Eudora - how to reset status w/ AS? (answer)
- Subject: corrupted messages in Eudora - how to reset status w/ AS? (answer)
- From: "Charles Arthur, UKClimbing Editor" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:24:01 +0000
Hi..
I posted here about problems I was having with Eudora 5.2 when it crashed,
leavving messages with the status of "?" - which (I now discover) does show
up as "Recovered" as a status in the control-click menu of Eudora, though
isn't mentioned in the Applescript dictionary.
I wanted to set the messages back to a "normal" status (although because of
how Eudora works, they're just text files, and often just a copy of
something that's fine already).
Turns out you can do this thusly: (at least in 5.2; in v6, now available,
you get 'recovered' as a scriptable message status.)
tell application "Eudora"
if status of message 0 is not in {unread, already read, replied, forwarded,
redirected, not sendable, sendable, queued, sent, never sent} then set
status of message 0 to already read
end tell
The key being that the message status is *not* put into quote marks - which
I had been doing. It's a property of the message - not a whateveritwouldbe
that would entail being in quote marks.
Thanks to Bill Briggs for helping me along on this.
best
Charles
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