Re: Rebuild Entourage database via AppleScript or osascript

Brad, those are all great, valid points that you made.
I'll see if I can add in those features that you suggested.


On 6/27/08 10:12 AM, in article
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 "brad.lane"
<brad.lane@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Great script.  Works great.  Is there any way to ensure that one's "Main
> Identity" is always selected?  How about a way to automatically close
the
> database utility once the rebuild is complete?
> 
> Also, you'd probably want to ensure that all office apps are closed
before
> launching the rebuild (tell application "microsoft excel" to quit, etc)
> 
> 
> 
> "Mason Rove" wrote:
> 
>> I just thought I'd share this with the community since I spent
>> a little time researching this and didn't see any other articles online
>> which showed how to do this.
>> 
>> You can rebuild the Entourage database via AppleScript with the
following
>> code:
>> 
>> tell application "Microsoft Database Utility"
>>     activate
>> end tell
>> 
>> tell application "System Events"
>>     tell process "Database Utility"
>>         tell window "Database Utility"
>>             click radio button "Rebuild database"
>>             click button "Continue"
>>         end tell
>>     end tell
>> end tell
>> 
>> 
>> The osascript may be a little more useful since it could be sent out to
>> multiple systems simultaneously using Apple Remote Desktop's Send Unix
>> feature. You can send all three lines at the same time.
>> 
>> /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Database Utility" to
>> activate'  
>> 
>> /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process
>> "Database Utility" to tell window "Database Utility" to click radio
button
>> "Rebuild database"'
>> 
>> /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process
>> "Database Utility" to tell window "Database Utility" to click button
>> "Continue"'
>> 
>>