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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / February 2007Attachments in strange places
A financial company sends me two reports each month by e-mail. Both are called reports.pdf, so I get one file called "reports.pdf" and one called "reports 1.pdf". I just went looking for one from a couple of months ago, and find that only the last two files are visible in the e-mail messages. All the earlier messages contain this: <<reports.pdf>> Kind regards, Stacey Attachment converted: MacOSX:reports.pdf (PDF /«IC) (002079BB) When I went looking, I found that the attachments were in a subdirectory deep down inside the DVD Player application????? I did have a filter set up to put these attachments in a separate folder, but certainly not that one! When I click on the button in the filter definition for the folder to transfer them to, it comes up with a subfolder within the Eudora application itself. I would have expected it to come up with the folder where it was actually putting the files. I would be grateful for any ideas about why this may have happened. I have to say that while it is potentially an extremely useful function to allow attachments to be stored elsewhere, my use of it has caused me no end of pain over the years :-( David In article <davidmor-5B0817.22552322022007@eth00.pnews.internode.on.net>, > I did have a filter set up to put these attachments in a separate > folder, but certainly not that one! When I click on the button in the > filter definition for the folder to transfer them to, it comes up with a > subfolder within the Eudora application itself. I would have expected it > to come up with the folder where it was actually putting the files. I meant to add that I am also puzzled why Eudora is able to find the last two attachments, but not the earlier ones, even though they are all in the same folder..... David > A financial company sends me two reports each month by e-mail. Both are > called reports.pdf, so I get one file called "reports.pdf" and one [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I did have a filter set up to put these attachments in a separate > folder, but certainly not that one! My guess is that you likely have another filter which also acts on the messages, causing unexpected results. Test to find out what filters act on the messages. Select a message and hold the shift key while you select "Filters" from the Window menu. All filters that match will be highlighted. Some filter actions end the filtering, so even if a filter is highlighted, if there is one higher on the list that acted on the message but ended filtering, that lower filter wouldn't have acted on it. In a followup, you said: > I meant to add that I am also puzzled why Eudora is able to find the > last two attachments, but not the earlier ones, even though they are all > in the same folder..... Hmm....that tends to blow my theory out of the water. Possibly there is some corruption in the mailbox file. If so, you can fix it manually, but work with a copy in case you make a mistake that makes matters worse. Open the file using a text editor such as BBEdit or TextWrangler (*not* a word processor). Examine the text in the message with the last two attachments and compare it to the text in the messages where Eudora is not able to find the attachments. Change the text in the earlier messages to match and save the changes, then try opening the altered mailbox in Eudora--Eudora should now be able to find the attachments.  SignatureKathy - If you're reading this in your web browser from Google or similar forum, NNTP "newsreaders" are a better way to access the content. <http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan/how-it-works.html> Links to NNTP newsreaders at <http://www.newsreaders.com/> > > I meant to add that I am also puzzled why Eudora is able to find the > > last two attachments, but not the earlier ones, even though they are all [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > messages to match and save the changes, then try opening the altered > mailbox in Eudora--Eudora should now be able to find the attachments. I too have had the problem where Eudora gets confused when multiple attachments with the same name are sent, so that some do not show up properly as attachments in the email. (Instead, just the name shows up, as David explained before). I think it's a completely separate problem from the one that David is having where attachments seem to be in the wrong folder. I didn't always have this problem; I think it had something to do with the way that OS X handles files. So, I am interested to see if Kathy's solution works... I'm guessing not, though. Roberta SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > My guess is that you likely have another filter which also acts on the > messages, causing unexpected results. Test to find out what filters act [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > message but ended filtering, that lower filter wouldn't have acted on > it. Tried this. There were two filters, one of which was the one that moved the message and attachments. The other was my backup filter that moves any message with a particular personality into a folder for that personality. (I prefer to keep mail associated with different personalities separate.) I do have a theory. I'm wondering how long it is since I last looked at these attachments. In particular, if it was before my last Mac upgrade, and I copied over the Eudora Folder... Eudora seems to store only the fileID of the folder, not the actual path and name of the folder. If you copy Eudora Folder to a new computer, it will first try to find a folder with the same fileID. Mostly, I have found that there is no older with the same fileID, but this time it might have hit the subfolder of DVD Player. I really should disable all of these filter commands to move attachments. This has bitten me before. Thanks for the suggestions. David > Eudora seems to store only the fileID of the folder, not the actual path > and name of the folder. If you copy Eudora Folder to a new computer, it > will first try to find a folder with the same fileID. My experience with moving Eudora to new computers is that it will find the attachment if the *name* of the attachment remains the same, and the directory structure remains identical between the two machines- which includes the volume name. The other feature is that if you subsequently move the attachment, on the original machine it keeps track of it, while on the new machine it loses it. If just the name has changed for some reason, then changing the filename to that listed in the 'Attachment converted: HD:1951_AC_amended_version.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (0001CC2B)' [to take a random example from real life in 2001] line will recreate the link. But I've never worked out how to completely recreate a path and fileid that will work. SignaturePeter > In a followup, you said: > > I meant to add that I am also puzzled why Eudora is able to find the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > messages to match and save the changes, then try opening the altered > mailbox in Eudora--Eudora should now be able to find the attachments. There's nothing of consequence in the message that could explain the different location. <x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" charset=""><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Monthly Portfolio - Jan 2007</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <!-- Converted from text/plain format --> <P> <<reports.pdf>> <FONT SIZE=2>Kind regards, Stacey</FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML> </x-html> Attachment converted: MacOSX:reports.pdf (PDF /«IC) (00217A40) Cheers David |
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