John, One area lacking in the documentation is a description of how to use the various searching capabilities. There are two Find scripts, and options I don't...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 3, 2001 2:58 pm
566
... One more thing: How do the scripts, "Text Functions View" and "Delete Duplicate Messages" work? The latter I would avoid completely unless I had a darn...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 3, 2001 3:09 pm
567
I keep playing with the v10 but it is just way too slow. I went to bed last night and ran it on a folder with about 2500 msgs and 8 hours later it has only...
dhrowe@...
May 3, 2001 8:24 pm
568
... I don't know what is causing that slow-down. You didn't have FMP in the foreground, did you? Or Smile on? B10 seems to be broken somehow for some people. I...
W John Carlsen
john.carlsen@...
May 4, 2001 3:44 am
569
... I noticed that the new Palm Desktop 2.6.3 update is supposed to fix what sounds like that identical problem for many applications. You don't (also) have...
Paul Berkowitz
berkowit@...
May 4, 2001 3:51 am
570
... No. I have no use for one. I don't quite understand what the fix was: the menubar problem? Cheers, John...
W John Carlsen
john.carlsen@...
May 4, 2001 4:04 am
571
... Given your answer, evidently not the identical menubar problem (which I recall Allen said Chris Nebel acknowledged as an applescript bug), but a very...
Paul Berkowitz
berkowit@...
May 4, 2001 4:17 am
572
... I did another archive run this morning and watched the speed. I had Entourage with 17MB, FMP with 10 MB (up from 6 MB), and the eMA Script Libarian set at...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 4, 2001 7:44 pm
573
... Stupid question, but could you have FM index after the archive ends? That way you could choose to index during the night or other convenient time. -- Diane...
Diane Ross
dianeross@...
May 4, 2001 8:52 pm
574
... Since you can choose to archive during the night or other convenient time, why not do that? (Except that in my case, it timed out for some reason I don't...
Paul Berkowitz
berkowit@...
May 4, 2001 9:58 pm
575
... That's what I'd do. There isn't any way I know of to postpone indexing. FileMaker can set a field to "Index when needed" when you define it, but what seems...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 4, 2001 10:30 pm
576
As I am bringing in stuff from older beta archives, I find I have some that have overlapping sets of messages. I see that the Script menu has one for finding...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 4, 2001 10:34 pm
577
... I realized I could find this out for myself. I set up a new test database, imported 56 records twice, and then ran the script. It found 49 duplicates, and...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 5, 2001 12:02 am
578
... Yes. I'm now completely baffled. I really thought that an FMP archive would find something specified in any field, and it probably does, but I can't figure...
Paul Berkowitz
berkowit@...
May 5, 2001 5:33 pm
579
I'll share a few tidbits of what I've discovered about searching by experimentation, and from earlier familiarity with FMP. ... You can search easily on any...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 5, 2001 7:08 pm
580
... Thanks. I just tried it on a 60,000 message database (220 MB, indexed) and it also worked for me. I was in Classic and it stopped twice telling me it ...
W John Carlsen
john.carlsen@...
May 5, 2001 11:25 pm
581
... I recall exasperated comments on the AppleScript lists, before I had FMP, that FMP calls cell values identical when one contains the other in toto. when...
Paul Berkowitz
berkowit@...
May 5, 2001 11:38 pm
582
... I might be able to do that with an imbedded AppleScript in the current loop, or call the Script Librarian to do it. Probably quite a bit slower. What...
W John Carlsen
john.carlsen@...
May 6, 2001 1:44 am
583
... Is that something I could do for myself? I will be merging two 10000-message databases that have significant overlap (probably 5000 or more duplicates), ...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 6, 2001 8:14 pm
584
... I gave it a shot with a 4200-record file I had. I found some interesting anomalies! I experimented with the field defined in several different ways. If it...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 6, 2001 9:43 pm
585
Just a quick follow-up: I put the UniqueField (version #3) into my existing database with about 15000 records. Took a long time (several minutes) to calculate...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 6, 2001 10:36 pm
586
John, In checking out the Duplicates script, I clicked on the spyglass icon over Subject to find messages with the same subject. It launched into a progress ...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 6, 2001 10:39 pm
587
... It certainly should; it was an oversight from another version. Yesterday I got rid of that obsolete field "€Subject Fixed" after replacing it with the ...
W John Carlsen
john.carlsen@...
May 7, 2001 12:45 am
588
... I could do this at the expense of more memory use and more coding. You could do this yourself, if you want to: just duplicate the Setup layout and all of ...
W John Carlsen
john.carlsen@...
May 7, 2001 1:47 am
589
... Thanks a lot for all the tips, Allen. -- Paul Berkowitz...
Paul Berkowitz
berkowit@...
May 7, 2001 2:19 am
590
... I'm not quite sure how. About the only way would be if two messages were sent at exactly the same time with exactly the same character count and exactly...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 7, 2001 3:02 am
591
... Absolutely! I don't want to divert your efforts; just to make a note of a desire for the future. I know what you mean about doing it in an FMP script; ...
Allen Watson
allenwatson@...
May 7, 2001 3:06 am
592
... No, I meant 55 messages/second for the whole 50000 message database. That's 20 milliseconds/message. ... Could you list the entire script, or take a...
W John Carlsen
john.carlsen@...
May 7, 2001 3:54 am
593
... I have lots fewer checkmarks that you apparently do for a single database, at most about 5, often 1 or 2. So it isn't hard to re-check them. Are you sure...
W John Carlsen
john.carlsen@...
May 7, 2001 4:16 am
594
... I'll attach a picture. Actually 2, since the script won't fit in a single window. The third attachment picture is of a database showing a list window. The...
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