eMA hasn't worked for me either - and I'm still running OS X 10.4.1! But I had
pretty much
given up since no solution (essentially the same error message as below) was
forthcoming
from this message group. I use Entourage for my email package and found that it
has the
facilities to save and recover email messages (via EXPORT and IMPORT). The
simple easy
way I've been using is to just drag the folders you want to save to a backup
media (I use a
memory stick). The key restriction using this technique is that no subfolders
get copied,
so you have to drag them unto your desktop (or directly to the backup store)
individually.
But at least it works.

For more info, in Entourage Help, search on "archive", then select "Back up and
restore
Entourage information".

Dave


--- In eMA-Talk@yahoogroups.com, "dsawyer121153" <yahoo.3.dsawyer@...> wrote:
>
> --- In eMA-Talk@yahoogroups.com, "johnulm2" <johnulm@> wrote:
> >
> > John, other users: it appears that Leopard (OS X 10.5) breaks eMA.
> > When you try to archive any folder, the process stops on the first
> > message (and all subsequent messages) with this error:
> >
> > Error -1700 in message: (message name) ArchiveMessage, msg not
> > archived: SetNewMessageRecord, Can't make "F" into type number.
> >
> > I know that Leopard changed indexing and updated mail, so the problem
> > is probably a new format to the messages in the mail folders.
>
> Hi, John,
>
> The problem is very likely that Mail in Leopard changed things from the
previous format
> (or the background commands have changed). eMA hasn't been updated in almost a
year,
> and John Carlsen hasn't posted here in equally a long time, so it's pretty
clear that eMA
is
> in essence a dead product. I'd therefore recommend that you move to some other
> solution. I've found MailSteward to be fast and quite reliable with Apple Mail
so you
might
> give that a try. The only hitch is if you have a large archive already in eMA
or another
> FileMaker-based solution; I have yet to find an easy way to get said archive
(or a text
> export) into MailSteward so you may not be able to have a single archive of
all your old
> emails.
>
> Regards.
>