John,

I'm experience pretty much the same thing with Apple Mail. I have an
other account that I'm closing down so I wanted to archive it, but EMA
will not launch the librarian when I try to update the mailboxes. Just
a beep.

I get the Temp Text field of 0 as well.
no unknowns in the scripts either.

Using mail with OS X 10.3.7 and Filemaker pro 6.0v2, latest EMA
downloaded off the web.

let me know if I should try anything else.

-gary


On Feb 3, 2005, at 2:25 PM, MK wrote:

> John, I finally had a chance to look at this -- still no success. Each
> time
> I tried, I started with a new database. In the prefs, I set it t
> Entourage
> for the program and for outgoing mail and made no other changes; in
> the
> setup, I set it to archive stuff older than 300 days and changed it to
> Normal mode (rather than Test mode) and made no other changes.
>
> Here's what I found:
> The librarian did not load by itself. I never once saw FileMaker
> change to
> eMA database. I went into Scriptmaker and ticked on Launch and then
> ran it
> as a script on its own; it then launched and for the first time I
> noticed
> that in the Progress box on the setup page it said "ready"! However,
> it
> still didn't work...
>
> I found no "unknowns" in either script.
> The Temp Text 1 field said 0.
> I upgraded Entourage, and I tried it in safe mode.
> I didn't repair permissions, although I did do it a few weeks ago. But
> frankly, I don't think it's going to solve the problem...!
>
>
>
> > On Jan 5, 2005, at 5:25 pm, Madeline (mad9303) wrote:
> >> I gave up trying to get eMA to work again, until a few days ago. I
> >> installed the beta  version of eMA, and then started with a fresh
> >> FileMaker database, but still cannot get the  folder lists to
> update.
> >> I set the prefs for Entourage (v10.1.4), and when I click on
> "Update
> >> Lists" in SetUp, I get a quick beep -- presumably because the
> >> Librarian hasn't launched. So  then I click on "Archive" and it
> asks
> >> to be taken to the Librarian, which then launches,  whereupon I get
> >> the following error message;
> >>
> >> 0S 10.3.7, Entourage, Filemaker, eMA 0403 , db version 0402.
> >>
> >> Error -2700. StartScript: Archive: ArchiveFolder: getting list of
> >> messages in : GetFolderInfo:  TextToFolderPath(): FolderPathStr: '
> ')
> >> is empty; please update folder list.
> >>
> >> I press okay, and now, assuming that the Librarian is running, I
> try
> >> to click on the "UPdate  Lists" again, but I still get the same
> >> response of a quick error beep.
> >
> >
> > I downloaded yesterday fresh copies of eMA 4.02 and 4.03b1 to check
> out
> > myself, and checked out each one of the 2 databases in each. In all
> > four cases, using the Update Lists button worked perfectly for me.
> > That¹s with OS 10.3.7 and Entourage X 10.1.6.
> >
> > That is why I am at a loss as to why it does not work correctly for
> > you, and I cannot repeat it in order to debug it. I will list a few
> > things you can to consider and/or try, but the simple truth now is
> that
> > I don¹t know why you are having this problem.
> >
> > TO ALL: Does anyone else currently have this problem?
> >   Or had it but fixed it? Anyone using other than Entourage?
> >   If this is due to something I did, I would like to fix it in
> >   the coming update. If not, but you know the cause,
> >   that fix should be added to the docs.
> >
> > 1)    If the "Update Lists" button does not work for you, and it
> has not
> > listed Entourage¹s folders, then pressing the "Archive" button will
> > surely not work, for you have not been able to check the folders you
> > want archived. That¹s why the error message said that the folder
> name
> > ³...is empty; please update folder list.² But it at least showed
> that
> > eMA Script Librarian was running in that case.
> >
> > 2)    When eMA Script Librarian is launched, within a few seconds of
> > pressing either button, it comes to the front (if only for a few
> > seconds), so you should see its name appear in the menu bar, just to
> > the right of the Apple menu (where it said ³FileMaker Pro² before
> you
> > pressed the button). Do not assume that, because Librarian ran for
> the
> > ³Archive² button, it is runs for ³Update Lists²  Look for the name
> > change in the menu bar.
> >
> > Since you heard a beep, that means that it is not getting to the
> step
> > that launches Librarian. The script is set to beep
> >
> > Did you see a dialog after pressing the button, asking ³Are you sure
> > you want to update the folders for Entourage?² If not, or there is a
> > beep, there is something wrong happening for the scripts called.
> >
> > Also, since you got a beep, which is in the script for when it
> doesn¹t
> > detect your pressing the ³OK² button, I presume that the dialog was
> not
> > working right for you.
> >
> > Here are two things you can do if you want to try to pin it down:
> >
> > To check why there was a beep, pressing the Update Lists button and
> > then go to the ³List Useful Fields² layout, scroll down one page,
> and
> > look for the value, if any, in the field ³Temp text 1². This is set
> > right after the error beep if FMP found an error, and may include an
> > FMP error number. If it does have a number there, let me know.
> >
> > You could also check two scripts (³Update Lists² & ³Ask confirm²)
> for a
> > missing parameter. If you have not done this before, don¹t worry:
> for
> > this, you won¹t have to understand FMP scripts at all.  I will
> explain
> > the steps to get to the script, and what to look for. Go to the
> > ³Scripts² menu and select the first item, ³ScriptMaker....² This
> takes
> > you to the list of scripts that I wrote for eMA. The script named
> > ³Update Lists² is near the top of the list, and ³Ask Confirm² is
> about
> > 2/3 the way down. For each one in turn, select its name and click
> the
> > Edit button. That will take you to the listing of the script: just
> scan
> > the lines, looking for the word "<unknown>". If you don¹t find that,
> > just press Cancel to leave. But if you do find ³Unknown² let me know
> > where.
> >
> > 5)    Do a Finder search on ³eMA Script Librarian² on all disks.
> There
> > should only be one; if more than one, make sure the others are
> deleted
> > and the trash emptied.
> >
> > 6)    Have you tried to launch and check out eMA after restarting
> your Mac
> > in "Safe Mode" (with the shift key down during startup? This is
> > supposed to prevent startup items and some non-Apple system
> extensions
> > from launching? It¹s a way to make sure that no such items that you
> > have cause a problem. For example, I have found that the ³APE²
> > Application Enhancer thing that is needed for several popular
> ³haxies²
> > was causing at least one other standard application to crash. There
> are
> > others that have caused other people problems. I suggest that you
> also
> > perform a "Repair Permissions" with Disk Utility on your disk, if
> you
> > haven't lately; I find it useful to do it often, at least once per
> > month.
> >
> > 2)    As you noted before, Michele Capurso seemed to have the same
> > problem, using an Italian system with Entourage, but I received no
> > response to my last suggestions. Are you by any chance also using a
> > non-US system or time zone?
> >
> > 3)    I notice that two of your recent messages were sent using
> Entourage
> > 10.0.0 and 10.1.4. You might want to update these to 10.1.6, just in
> > case some bugs needed fixing with the latest Mac OSs. That¹s a
> general
> > suggestion; I doubt it is the cause of your problems with eMA.
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >  John
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
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> >
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