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Saving your Categories
2006-07-03 • Applescript
If you have an Exchange Account you are probably aware that event categories are stored locally, in the Entourage database, not on the server with the message (this is due to the way that Entourage and the server interact). The trouble with this is that if, for any reason, the local cache is deleted and the events downloaded from the server again, all the event categories are lost. this can happen due to a database rebuild, or because the local calendar has become out of sync with the server. This can be a real pain. I know, it kept happening to me!

So, I wrote a pair of scripts (grab them from my Applescripts page). The first (Store Event Categories) will save the name of all categories in the event's details window, like this:
event

The second script (Restore Event Categories) does the reverse - it will take these notes and apply those categories to the events (creating a new category if necessary).

The way to use these scripts is to run the first script (Store Event Categories) on a regular basis. Best thing is to set up a schedule to run the script once a day:
schedule

Then, if you need to restore the categories you can run the second script (Restore Event Categories) manually - but make sure you run this second script before the next scheduled run of the first script fires, or all your former categories will be set to 'None'!


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