Re: Combine and Decode
From: Praising Jesus (1611kjb_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/29/05
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:50:41 -0500
No, perhaps my explanation was not detailed enough. There are *NOT*
multi-part messages (although if there is one in the highlighted list it
will process just like a messages that are not multi-part). I am using the
combine and decode function for a function for which it was *NOT* designed.
I am using the function to aggregate multiple attachments into a single
message. If you highlight 25 messages, each with an attachment, and click on
combine and decode, you end up with one message with 25 attachments. You can
then click on Save all and eliminate many, many steps required to save the
25 attachments individually.
My problem is, it doesn't always work. Sometimes you get one message with 25
attachments, other times you get one message with one attachment.
My question is this, for those times when you "decode" 25 messages that are
not multi-part and you only end up with one attachment, what thing is it
that caused OE to act different on this set of messages from the last set
that produced 25 attachments? In this case the attachments are always a
binary picture of some type. However, the problem is *NOT* that OE blocks
PCX files, because even when the 25 messages have, for example, five PCX
images, you get one message with 20 attachments and the "OE blocked...."
message for the PCX images.
What causes this apparently anomalous behavior?
---Mike
"Kath Adams" <kathadams@(nospam)mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Praising Jesus wrote:
>> OK, this may be a prohibited topic sine I'm not using ONE as it was
>> designed, but hey, you use what works.
>>
>> I frequent a number of newsgroups like ALT.BINARIES.CLIP-ART where
>> there are hundreds of very small images. It is a real pain to save
>> them one at a time. Consequently, I have learned that you can just
>> highlight about a hundred of them and hit combine and decode and OE
>> puts all the images in one message and I can do a "save all" and I
>> save tons of time. However, it doesn't always work. The problem is, I
>> have no idea why not. Does anyone know why it works sometimes and not
>> others?
>> When it doesn't work, I can highlight a bunch of messages, hit
>> combine and decode and I just get a single image. What would cause
>> this?
>> ---Mike
>>
>> p.s. I know OE doesn't do this, but is there a program that would just
>> automatically download a newsgroup everyday and save the attachments
>> into a folder?
>
> From the OE "Help" menu - and I suspect you're missing out item number 3 -
> reordering.
> Sometimes, when a large message (one that contains pictures, audio files,
> or other large objects) is sent in e-mail or posted to a newsgroup, it is
> broken into smaller files and displayed as several messages. You can
> combine the messages to recreate the original message and display it in
> Outlook Express.
>
> 1.. Select all of the messages that are part of the original message
> (each part will usually have a number).
> 2.. On the Message menu, click Combine and Decode.
> 3.. If needed, reorder the parts in the correct sequence.
>
> --
> Kath Adams
> MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
>
>
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