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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / April 2006Moving ONE mailbox between Macs
I run Eudora for Mac (6.2.3/ad supported) on two Macs (1GHz iBook & 2x2.0GHz G5), both running 10.4.5, both accessing my ISP's POP mail. On the laptop, I tell Eudora to leave the email on the server, so that the G5 is the complete repository of my incoming email. But I do compose and send email from the laptop as well, and would like to combine the contents of the two Out mailboxes onto the G5. I have tried (with the program not running) duping the iBook's Out mailbox, renaming it and moving it to the G5's Mail Folder. Also, I option-dragged to copy all the messages in the Out box to a new mailbox, and copied that to the G5. In both cases, after opening the program then trying to open the mailbox, I get an error: mailboxname (-5000); An unknown error has occured. (45:215) It looks like I'm doing all the right things, and I've been using Eudora over a decade, so I do know the program. My research only points me to procedures for moving entire folders of email, not just single mailboxes. Have I missed something? Thanks! > I run Eudora for Mac (6.2.3/ad supported) on two Macs (1GHz iBook & > 2x2.0GHz G5), both running 10.4.5, both accessing my ISP's POP mail. On [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > mailboxname (-5000); An unknown error has occured. (45:215) What you are doing looks ok to me. Certainly, I have merged mail from two machines by just moving a mailbox file into the Mail Folder of the target machine. Start Eudora and there it is. Then I just dragged the messages from that mailbox into the one where I wanted them. A few thoughts: Are there any unusual characters in the mailbox name? You don't happen to have different toc settings on the two machines (See Miscellaneous settings panel) Have you tried opening the mailbox in a text editor to see if anything looks strange. Check in particular what the line endings are - traditional Mac, or Unix. TextWrangler will tell you this. Good luck David > My research only points > me to procedures for moving entire folders of email, not just single > mailboxes. Have I missed something? Thanks! To move a single mailbox- call it 'Transfer' for the sake of argument; create a mailbox also called 'Transfer' on the destination machine. Then go into the 'Mail' folder of the originating machine, and copy 'Transfer' and if you're using .toc files 'Transfer.toc', to the Mail folder of the destination machine, replacing the existing 'Transfer' and 'Transfer.toc' files. The mails will then be sitting in the Transfer mailbox on the destination machine= from where you can move them in the usual way.  SignaturePeter In my case I share a mailbox between two Macs. The mailbox on Mac 1 is in a folder which is shared (via internet), and when Mac 2 accesses that mailbox, the remote volume is mounted from Mac 1 via afp. It was actually a combination of .toc issues and account permissions (the account names are a slightly different on the two machines). At any rate, the problem is solved. Thanks for the suggestions/ideas! |
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