The Entourage User's WebLog

On the first day of MacWorld, the Mac version of Google Earth was finally released.

Anyone who has seen this app running in Windows can't fail to have been impressed, and the mac version is just as good

However, one thing ticked me off. The 'mail' button (used to send location files and images via email) is hard-wired to Apple's Mail.app. I use Entourage. That was annoying.

In fact, it ticked me off so much that I worked out a little hack for it. Here's how to modify the app so that it uses Entourage as it's mail client instead of mail.app:

1. Right-click on the Google Earth.app icon and select 'show package contents'
2. 
   
3. Look in Contents/Resources and find this file: emailplacemark.scpt
4. 
   
5. Option drag it to the desktop to make a copy there, and open it in a text editor (it may not open in a script editor)
   
6. Replace the text of the script with this text:
   
   tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
try
set theSubject to "%1"
set theBody to "%2"
set theAttachments to {%3}
set myMessage to make new outgoing message ¬
     with properties {subject:theSubject, content:theBody}
tell myMessage
repeat with fileInfo in theAttachments
make new attachment at end with properties ¬
     {file: alias (posix file (get filename of fileInfo))}
end repeat
end tell
open mymessage
end try
end tell
(Download the file from here, if you like)
   
   
7. Rename the original script as emailplacemarkORIGINAL.scpt, or something like it (so you can easily restore the file if anything goes wrong) and copy your modified script back in to the Resources folder.

Google Earth will now send locations (and images) via entourage.

There's another version of this same script in the folder Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/kvw/ for some reason, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

Please post any comments or requests you may have by following the 'Comment' link below. I do try to answer all comments I receive