... Here's a new twist. Now eMA is archiving but will only archive small numbers of messages before throwing Eudora into that same crazy crash/self-restart,...
Marc Stergionis
stermarc@...
May 1, 2002 2:43 pm
1432
OK, think I've made some progress. When, after an archive chokes, I delete (in Eudora) the most recent message, which seems to be the one creating the "too...
Marc Stergionis
stermarc@...
May 1, 2002 4:35 pm
1433
... That implies that it is indeed something about those messages that is causing the problem. I don't know what, but I do know that I cannot archive certain...
John Carlsen
ThinkAgain@...
May 2, 2002 2:37 am
1434
... Looks like big messages aren't the only causes of crashes. I left the office for awhile with eMA archiving and came back to find a Eudora-crash loop had...
Marc Stergionis
stermarc@...
May 2, 2002 7:29 pm
1435
... Yes, that can come from AppleScript. I forget exactly what operations can do it; I think It's stuff like offset or "text n thru m of string" kind of ...
... I found the bug! A piece of the code that used to be there was actually missing, by accident I suppose. I will fix that, but first... ... That bug should...
John Carlsen
ThinkAgain@...
May 3, 2002 2:04 pm
1438
... Well-l-l, some kind of voodoo happened because the question marks were all replaced by the correct dates. I will (obviously) watch for that at the next...
Marc Stergionis
stermarc@...
May 3, 2002 2:33 pm
1439
Marc, Allen, and Paul: all at once. All is fixed. ... I am getting closer. I sent 2 large text messages (89 KB and 264 KB) to myself. Everything worked well in...
... Yeah. I just had to do exactly the same thing recently - compare lengths instead of text. length and count always work OK. I think there are some ...
Hi, I just downloaded eMessage Archiver to give it a try - I really need a program like this. Unfortunately, the main reason I need it is because I want to...
dkripal@...
May 3, 2002 5:16 pm
1442
Sorry about that previous message - somehow the subject line got mangled. ... Hi, I just downloaded eMessage Archiver to give it a try - I really need a ...
dkripal@...
May 3, 2002 5:19 pm
1443
... This is hopefully fixed in my current test version. See below. ... This I do not completely understand. PowerMail may be stuck on the last eMA operation...
I have been playing with eMA under FM Pro 3 but was waiting until I had installed FM Pro 5 before I gave it some real work (this will, ultimately, include...
Charles Watts-Jones
piolant@...
May 4, 2002 3:43 pm
1445
... I've been putting the stopwatch on it now. I'm archiving one message every 25 seconds with FM Pro in the background and eMA Script Librarian in the front....
Charles Watts-Jones
piolant@...
May 4, 2002 5:29 pm
1446
... Welcome to eMA. My instructions for eMA so far expects you to know FileMaker already, on the assumption that no one would have bought FMP just to run eMA....
... Just to repeat my warning to all, not particularly to you, please do not register too fast. Get it working reliably for your needs first. There may be some...
... I bought FMP 3 and now 5 in order to run other author's databases; my last feeble attempts to develop my own were with Borland's Paradox (under DOS). And...
Charles Watts-Jones
piolant@...
May 5, 2002 11:13 am
1449
... Have doubled both memory allocations also only have FMP, eMA Script Librarian and Emailer open. Archiving is in the range six-seven messages/minute now....
Charles Watts-Jones
piolant@...
May 5, 2002 11:13 am
1450
... There hasn't _been_ any AppleScriptLib since somewhere around 1.4.3. It's all part of the AppleScript extension now. the only "matching top" you need is...
... It may be that it won't go much faster on your Mac. Increasing it to 4 or 5 seconds according to my above crude calculations would not make all that much...
Using eMA 3.0.5 and FMP 5 I have been trying to run an eMK stack import. I select the stack and ask eMA to update its folder list. And assume that eMA will...
Charles Watts-Jones
piolant@...
May 5, 2002 4:19 pm
1453
... Thanks for making the AppleScriptLib bit clear. I'm 'stuck' at OS 9.0.4 as my 7500 is retrofitted with a G3. Although I should be able to run 9.1 (but no...
Charles Watts-Jones
piolant@...
May 5, 2002 8:39 pm
1454
... Background Only Application. I think that Apple has encouraged their use in order to avoid the conflicts that can arise with third part control panels and...
Charles Watts-Jones
piolant@...
May 5, 2002 8:39 pm
1455
... The floating app button bar (I forget its official name) is a feature of OS 9 (and I think some versions of OS 8). OS X does not have it; I even have to...
... My instructions, as usual, are rather sparse here. Others have managed to make it work, with similar fiddling and a little help. Much of it, like choosing...
... Application Switcher. You get the floating bar by click-holding on the -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson...
... Forget my last reply. I have just rewritten the eMK import and it goes much faster and easily. It is a script applet called "eMA Import-eMK", separate from...
Would it be possible to automate eMA? I have several eMA databases and would like to be able to set-up a regular routine archive operation encompassing all of...
Charles Watts-Jones
piolant@...
May 7, 2002 12:29 pm
1460
... I call that "scheduling" rather than automation since eMA already does so many tasks automatically for you that scripts like Dan Crevier's Emailer Archive...