Re: [EXTERNAL] Mail Archive
Re: [EXTERNAL] Mail Archive
- Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Mail Archive
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:58:29 -0800
Thanks, Bradley--
Simple. Elegant, even.
When I first tried this, it seemed not to work. With your encouragement, I
found that this technique simply takes a very long time.
Activity Monitor showed 100% CPU usage for hours and hours; however, my
machine, while very sluggish, was still useable during this time. The
procedure even survived a Mail.app crash and relaunch, eventually running to
completion now almost a whole day later.
So now it's done, and my machine is much peppier.
Thanks.
--Gil
> On Dec 14, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Nation, Bradley M <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Use a “smart folder” and use Date Received and choose from the list. Then go
> into that smart folder, select all, and move to what ever folder you want.
>
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>> On Dec 14, 2017, at 14:06, Gil Dawson <email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi--
>>
>> Using El Capitan (OS X 10.11.6), I find that Mail 9.3 is using lots of CPU
>> time, and I suppose that it's time for me to archive old messages. (I've
>> kept every message back to 1996.)
>>
>> I'm thinking I'll move all messages received prior to some given date to a
>> special mailbox. Then I'll Export the mailbox and delete its contents.
>>
>> Mail's "Archive" command wouldn't be easy to use because my messages are
>> scattered among dozens of folders. Mail's "Rules" don't allow specifying a
>> "Date received" (only a number of days ago.) So I'm thinking I'll write a
>> script to move all messages received before a particular date to a special
>> mailbox. Perhaps I could embed a smilepause command in its inner loop so
>> that the script itself doesn't hog my machine.
>>
>> Before I start, I thought I'd ask: has anyone done this? Would you be
>> willing to share your script?
>>
>> --Gil
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