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From: Barry Wainwright (barry_at_mvps.org.INVALID)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:15:32 +0000

On 14/2/05 3:58 pm, in article 1grzdme.1sizhpn1bnggw6N%jeremy@yahoo.com,
"Jeremy Fieldsend" <jeremy@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Barry Wainwright <barry@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:
>
>
>>> b) What's the best way to archive off emails? (Dragging and dropping
>>> seems very cumbersome and slow.)
>>
>> New in Entourage 2004 there is an 'ExportŠ' command in the file menu. This
>> can select messages by category or project. If you are interested in
>> archiving out messages older than a certain number of days, select those
>> messages with an advanced find or custom view, then assign an 'archive'
>> category to them. Then run the Export command against this category,
>> allowing the command to delete messages after export. That should do what
>> you want.
>
> Thanks , that works well. Can the resulting file (.rge) be opened /
> imported by other PIMs or is it exclusive to Microsoft?
>

It is actually a mac OS 'Package'. In the Finder, cntl-click on it and
select 'show contents' from the contextual menu. You can then navigate to
through the subfolders to find the data in standard .eml, .ics, .vcs data
format that can be read by many programmes. 

-- 
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
        <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>

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