#12 Create descriptive file names when exporting .VCF, .VCAL, et

[Anonymous]

Currently, Outport exports a list of files for .vcf
and .vcal that are named sequentially.

It would be great to use the subject (in Outlook) as the
file name.

for example:

- calender1.vcs ---> 2003-04-11, Mike's Birthday.vcs
- contact1.vcf ---> Mike Smith.vcs

[John Rothlisberger]

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Two points I would like to add:

- The ideal situation would be to allow a template for naming
files, e.g. "%Subject% (%Sender%).msg" would yield
something like "Hello there (Joe Bloggs).msg"

- The date of the file should be the date of the email (so it
can be sorted, searched, etc.)

Your program has lots of potential! Please don't abandon it.

--John

[Manuel M. Weisbender]

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Enhancing jrothlis's comments, I believe that the naming of
the exported messages is an essential feature in the
software. After all, messages can be exported in native .msg
format from Outlook by regular drag-and-drop. Yet, in
today's Email communication not many people bother to change
the subject of an Email and so the exported messages are
just as hard to sort as the sequentially numbered ones
currently generated by Outport.

So I would enhance jrothlis's template request to also
include other variables, specifically the original message
sent date:

"%SentDateYear%-%SentDateMonth%-%SentDateDay% %Subject%
(%Sender%).msg" would create "04-02-27 Hello there (Joe
Bloggs).msg", which will
at least keep the sequential sorting of exported Emails
possible, if the creation date of the exported file cannot
be made the message sent date, due to the file modification
dates being set by the OS and not Outport.

Outport is what I have been searching for all along. My
Outlook .pst file is 1.6GB in size and hold some 20,000
Emails, which I am dying for to export and sort them in a
regular directory tree for full text searching by programs
other than Outlook.

Manuel.