Subfolders of Entourage

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#1

Hi, I have a problem. I want to get the subfolder of folder “InBox”

This is my snippet :

tell application “Microsoft Entourage”
set FoldersList to “” as string
repeat with i in every folder
set FoldersList to name of i
tell FoldersList
repeat with z in folder of FoldersList
set FoldersList2 to name of z
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
end tell

When i try to run this script I get this exception The error is “Impossible to get folder of Inbox”

Any hints?

TIA

#2

kasketto,

I may be wrong since I don’t have Entourage, but it seems to me that:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    set FoldersList to "" as string -- this is setting FoldersList to a string as opposed to a list of folders.
    repeat with i in every folder
        set FoldersList to name of i
        tell FoldersList
            repeat with z in folder of FoldersList -- this is treating FoldersList as a list instead of a string. You're looking for a folder in the list of folders.
                set FoldersList2 to name of z
            end repeat
        end tell
    end repeat
end tell

Maybe try:

    set FoldersList to {}
    set FoldersList2 to {}
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    repeat with i in FoldersList
        tell application "Finder"
             if class of i is folder then
               set FoldersList2 to FoldersList2 & i
             end if
        end tell
    end repeat
end tell

Of course I don’t know the rest of your code so I don’t know where you’re referencing FoldersList and the Inbox folder. I can’t test the code since I don’t have Entourage but this may help.

PreTech

#3 
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to set inBoxSubfolders to folders of inbox folder

Ask if you need the entire hierarchy :wink: