Re: How do you archive old Mail messages?
Re: How do you archive old Mail messages?
- Subject: Re: How do you archive old Mail messages?
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:29:53 -0700
Sounds excellent, Alex.
Do you have a script that does this? Would you be willing to share it?
--Gil
On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:14 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
> The method I use is to create master folders that each use the year of the receipt of the email as their name.
> Then within the folder for the current year, I have all the folders that I would have had during that year.
> All mail goes in its appropriate folder within that year's folder.
>
>
> On Apr 30, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Gil Dawson wrote:
>
>> Hi--
>>
>> Perhaps I'm a bit obsessive, but Mail on my machine has several dozen folders into which I've saved every email message I've sent or received since 1996 (except 30 that were lost -- and I know where they went.) It's occasionally useful, but its slowing down Mail.
>>
>> Time to offload ten years' worth of emails into an archive. I'd like to select on date sent, but preserve the folder structure. The archive file should be text-searchable. XML would be nice.
>>
>> Before I write an AppleScript to do this, I thought I'd ask: Have you archived messages out of mail? How did you do it?
>>
>> --Gil Dawson
>> On a MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid-2009) running Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.8)
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