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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / May 2006selected item from search opens a different message!
Hi, This is truly bizarre. I did a search for a message. Found some so I looked through them. One message had a subject that related to the search so I selected it and opened it. When it was opened it was ANOTHER message, not the one highlighted. I closed the message and selected another one. That one was fine; it opened to what I had selected. I went back to the weird one. It kept on doing this. It will probably go away next reboot or possibly even the next search but it was so bizarre I had to mention it. FWIW, the message where this happens was written 6/6/05. The message that opens up is 7/13/05. I don't know what else might give anyone a clue as to what is going on so if it is still doing it when you do have any suggestions I'll see if it works again. Otherwise, Eudora, and OSX as far as I can tell..., is being normal. Cheers, John L Eudora 6.2.3, OSX 10.4.6, 1.5GB RAM, 1.67 PB DL. Preview, Firefox 1.5.0.3 and Yahoo IM 2.5.3 running at the time. > I did a search for a message. Found some so I > looked through them. One message had a subject that related to the > search so I selected it and opened it. When it was opened it was > ANOTHER message I can think of 2 possible causes: - your mailebox/TOC is damaged - you changed the subject manually, in which case the changed subject will show in mailbox and search windows, but the original Subject header is still available inline.  SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" Thanks. I think it has to be #1 - damaged TOC, although I haven't gotten any messages to that effect. (Although I can't remember which message this happened on I do remember that the subjects and contents of the two were quite different and I wouldn't have changed them to be at all similar in subject or content. Searching for the dates turns up messages that don't seem to be the ones that had the problem...) I'd compacted all the mailboxes a little while before this happened and have done so again tonight. Is that all I need to do or should I follow the instructions for rebuilding the TOC? The ones I see here are pretty old. Wouldn't it have changed? Could it be a result of OSX being flaky? I've had some system freezes lately... Many thanks. John L I should add that I have a LOT of mail. About 250mbs in my Mail folder. All my mail for the past 9 years or so... I probably should separate some of it so Eudora doesn't have to keep track of it all. I want to simply remove some mailboxes but someday may need to stick them back in in case I have to search that old mail. Best suggestions to do that? Copy them to a new location using the Finder and then delete them the best/a good way? Thanks. > I should add that I have a LOT of mail. About 250mbs in my Mail folder. > All my mail for the past 9 years or so... I probably should separate > some of it so Eudora doesn't have to keep track of it all. I want to > simply remove some mailboxes but someday may need to stick them back in > in case I have to search that old mail. Just create new mailboxes from within Eudora and transfer messages into them. You may want mailboxes labeled by dates, or maybe by sender, or by subject; you have lots of options there. AFAIK, Eudora loads only In, Out, and Trash into memory. Closed mailboxes other than those three are just files sitting on the hard drive available to be tapped but not really doing anything. Any that you aren't likely to use on a regular basis could be stuck in a folder anywhere on your hard drive or on a CD, and Eudora can open them anytime by using the File | Open | Other... command. Once you've transferred mail into other mailboxes, compact all mailboxes to save space and get a rebuilt TOC (Table of Contents). 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/> > Thanks. I think it has to be #1 - damaged TOC Don't expect that just because you know what exactly you're responding to, someone else will too. Others may have read the message you're responding to long ago and not remember it. Or they may not have access to it at all. The harder you make it for people to understand what you're trying to communicate, the less likely they'll be to bother trying to help. Thus: learn to quote or be ignored. See <http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html> and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topposting>. Thanks. Btw, it's also easier to communicate with a real newsreader, instead of through Google's silly web interface. There's plenty of choice. See <http://www.newsreaders.com/mac/clients.html>. [...] > I'd compacted all the mailboxes a little while before this happened and > have done so again tonight. Is that all I need to do or should I follow > the instructions for rebuilding the TOC? The ones I see here are pretty > old. Wouldn't it have changed? I don't recall the procedure for rebuilding TOCs and of course none of us have any idea which instructions you are seeing "here". > Could it be a result of OSX being flaky? I consider the Mac OS X Finder flaky, not the OS. > I've had some system freezes > lately... That's not normal behaviour for Mac OS X. Find the cause. Possibilities are faulty hardware (RAM, USB devices, etc.) and buggy third-party software that insists on Admin rights for installation. What *could* be is that your freezes, and the hard reboots you likely had to do, caused file system damage -- which in turn can lead to all sorts of problems. Run Disk Utility to verify that your file system is undamanged. SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" |
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