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I have uploaded the fifth beta-test version of eMessage Archiver 4.10.
The file, a Mac Zip Archive file, can be downloaded directly with the following link:
This beta version was created with FileMaker 8.5, which creates a Universal application that also runs natively on Intel Macs, although I used FileMaker 8.0v3 for most of the development work, until recently.
I have not yet updated the web site, so use the above direct link for now.
I’m sorry about beta 4, which stopped with an error “Object not found” when trying to archive. You can ignore the explanation in the next two paragraphs. I just made a silly last-minute mistake.
Since I had archived Wish beta 4 just a couple days before uploading it, I way confused. In trying to debug my archiving AppleScripts, I kept getting that same error, for lots of attempts to write data to the database. It was as though my script could not access the eMA database! Anyway, I agonized while trying to fix it for many, many hours over the next few weeks. I was worried that my computer was acting up again. I added lots of additional error trapping code. Nothing worked.
Finally, it hit me. An apparently innocent change that I tried at the last minute, disabling temporarily a line in the script, did not in fact work, so I went to bed. The next day I forgot all about that incident, so I did not re-enable that line, and simply Zipped it up and uploaded it. That is all that it was.
Browse through the description on the first record of the eMessage Database, with lots but not all new features described briefly. Just ask, if anything remains unclear to you.
Note that is no longer necessary to delete any previous versions that you have on your disks, so keep them for now in case you need to go back to them.
As usual, you can report problems and errors on the eMA-Talk discussion group.
INSTALLATION:
The unzipped downloaded file is a folder that you can move to the Applications folder, or any other place that you prefer. It contains 2 applications, but normally you should not launch any of them directly, or you might get strange error messages. It also contains a file called eMessage Database, which is where email messages are saved, and where you do all your interacting with eMessage Archiver.
Please make a copy of eMessage Database for your use in archiving, leaving the original to make additional untouched databases in the future. You may only want to use one database, but this way leaves your options open, without having to re-download the whole eMA package.
Rename the database copy to something meaningful to you, and then move it out of the Applications folder, lest all your archives get lost when you install an upgrade. Usually people put it in their Documents folder, but you can put it anywhere outside the Applications folder.
Always start up eMessage Archiver by double-clicking on it in the Finder. Alternatively you can put the database file in your Dock, where you can start it up easily by just clicking on it.
If you have your own purchased copy of FileMaker Pro 7 or higher, you can use that instead of the free runtime application. Then you can open it directly from an open FMP application. If you do it by double-clicking in the Finder, you may have to use File Info to set your application as the one to open the database.
When you open the database, the largest change from beta 3 that you will notice is that many commands have been added to several of the standard FMP menus, more than used to be found only in the Scripts menu. The Scripts menu has been replaced by the eMA menu, which only has a few eMA-specific commands in it. The advantage is that the many of the new menu items now have keyboard equivalents, and that they are grouped with other related commands.
OK, that's enough for now. Please post any questions, comments, and error reports here in eMA-Talk.
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Cheers,
John
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