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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / October 2005Retrieving trashed mail
Is there any way of redeeming trashed mail once the trash box has been emptied? I have v. 5.1.1. paid running on OS 9.2.2.  SignatureBob- purge Plus > Is there any way of redeeming trashed mail once the trash box has been > emptied? I have v. 5.1.1. paid running on OS 9.2.2. If you haven't compacted the trash mailbox, the messages will still be there but hidden from within Eudora. The mailboxes are actually just text files, so you can open them with any text editor and the messages should then be visible. If you're using the separate toc files in Eudora, trashing the toc file would probably also make the messages reappear in Eudora--but status information will be lost. SignatureKathy - read reviews of other newsgroups in news:news.groups.reviews help for new users at <http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan/> Good Net Keeping Seal of Approval at <http://www.gnksa.org/> > > Is there any way of redeeming trashed mail once the trash box has been > > emptied? I have v. 5.1.1. paid running on OS 9.2.2. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > text files, so you can open them with any text editor and the messages > should then be visible. That may vary. I believe that by default a fully emptied mailbox gets written out as a zero-length file when closed, and in 6.2.3 on 10.4.2, emptying the Trash zeros it immediately on disk. SignatureNow where did I hide that website... > > > Is there any way of redeeming trashed mail once the trash box has been > > > emptied? I have v. 5.1.1. paid running on OS 9.2.2. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > written out as a zero-length file when closed, and in 6.2.3 on 10.4.2, > emptying the Trash zeros it immediately on disk. Not with OS 9.2.2. Following Kathy's advice I was able to gain access to files I had trashed after the last time I compacted the mailboxes. They (the files) turned out to be far in excess of what I had bargained on. But it worked. SignatureBob- purge Plus > > If you haven't compacted the trash mailbox, the messages will still be > > there but hidden from within Eudora. The mailboxes are actually just [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > written out as a zero-length file when closed, and in 6.2.3 on 10.4.2, > emptying the Trash zeros it immediately on disk. I think you're right--I never empty my Trash (I've got valuable stuff in there <g>), but when I turbo-delete all from the Junk box, it gets written out as zero-length. My tip above will work in OS 9 and below, but probably not in 10.x. SignatureKathy - read reviews of other newsgroups in news:news.groups.reviews help for new users at <http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan/> Good Net Keeping Seal of Approval at <http://www.gnksa.org/> |
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