I see that the manual makes special mention of Eagle Filer’s alerting you to missing attachments not downloaded when archiving into Eagle Filer from Apple Mail. However, I am wondering if it will do the same when archiving into Eagle Filer from Legacy Outlook (where my work Office 365 emails are currently).
I hope so, as I just archived (and then deleted) about two years worth of emails!
It’s rarely an issue with Outlook. With Apple Mail, EagleFiler is importing the data from disk, and (depending on your settings or if the system needed to reclaim disk space) it can be common for attachments to not be fully downloaded (or for them to be discarded sometime after download). So EagleFiler checks to make sure they’re all there and will alert you in the Errors window otherwise.
With Outlook, it’s importing the data from Outlook directly, and most people have Download headers only unchecked, and I don’t think it purges data once it’s been downloaded. In the event that the message data is incomplete, EagleFiler will ask Outlook to fully download the message, and this normally works transparently. In the rare case where Outlook cannot fully download the message, or if it looks like Outlook’s database is damaged, EagleFiler will show an error alert.
Got it - thank you! That also explains why the process of Eagle Filer importing from Outlook was taking longer – server-level communications rather than pulling from Apple Mail locally downloaded data? I have liked the simplicity of having both my gmail and my Office 365 mail downloaded on Apple Mail, but recently had a bit of a crisis of confidence with Apple Mail handing my Office 365 account, so recently went back to Outlook for it (running New Outlook on my MacBook daily driver, but Legacy Outlook on a 24/7 running Mac mini which also has Eagle Filer on it).
Usually the Outlook data is already cached, so it doesn’t need to communicate with the server, but it’s much slower for EagleFiler to request the message data from Outlook via AppleScript than to read Mail’s data store directly from disk.
Ah - good to know. That is a vote in favor of using Apple Mail for both accounts – at least for my Mac mini archival purposes.