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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / September 2007Windows Eudora to Mac Eudora
Trying to get all my Windows Eudora v7.1 email folders/mailboxes converted to Mac Eudora 6.2 but the instructions on Qualcomm's site are incomplete. Does anyone have a step-by-step solution that they know works? Also - in the Windows version, the mailbox/folder list docks on the left side of the screen (above where Eudora used to have ads. Is there any way in the Mac version to control window placement and docking? One last question - Is this the only place to get active Eudora discussion/user support, or are there other forums for Mac users that are still active? Thanks On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:56:27 -0500: > Trying to get all my Windows Eudora v7.1 email folders/mailboxes converted > to Mac Eudora 6.2 but the instructions on Qualcomm's site are incomplete. > > Does anyone have a step-by-step solution that they know works? What instructions did you find (URL?) Where did problem(s) occur, or what happened? Does anyone know whether an intermediate import to another cross-platform client (e.g. Thunderbird) works, and/or is any easier? (probably would lose info, however). > One last question - Is this the only place to get active Eudora > discussion/user support, or are there other forums for Mac users > that are still active? Qualcomm's support and user forums are currently still in operation: http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/ [both Windows and Mac] http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/search.php [forum search engine] http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/mac/ Google search engine (for this newsgroup): http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=group:comp.mail.eudora.mac&scoring=d& num=100 sorry for top-posting.... In the Eudora KB there is an article (1644hq) on migrating from Windows to Mac and it has inaccuracies. the ~/Documents/Eudora Folder it refers to placing the converted .mbx files (sans .mbx extension) really ought to be ~/Documents/Eudora Folders/Mail Folder (this is for OS X 10.4 and Eudora 6.2) I'm still working through the conversion issues of the folders I need to migrate with the mailboxes in them. Somebody recommended an app called Linebreak Converter X to deal with CRLF issues, but I'm not there yet. > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:56:27 -0500: > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Google search engine (for this newsgroup): http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=group:comp.mail.eudora.mac&scorin g=d&num=100 > -- = -- OpenVMS - The never-advertised operating system with the dwindling ISV base. > Somebody recommended an app called Linebreak Converter X to deal with CRLF > issues, but I'm not there yet. BBEdit by BareBones Software (or the old BBEdit Lite if you can locate a copy) and TextWrangler (also by BBEdit) are text editors that can change the CRLF issues for you. BBEdit Lite and TextWrangler are free and IMO do the job much more easily than following the recommendations on the Qualcomm site. I haven't actually used TextWrangler, but I would expect that it works similarly to BBEdit Lite. Work with a copy of the files, of course, just in case things go wrong. The mailboxes are actually just simple text files. Boot up BBEdit [1] and choose File | Open... to open a mailbox. Select Save As... and click on the Options button. One of the options will be to save with Macintosh line endings. Chose that, and voila! you're done. Earlier, you wrote: > Also - in the Windows version, the mailbox/folder list docks on the left > side of the screen (above where Eudora used to have ads. Is there any way in > the Mac version to control window placement and docking? Just drag the windows to where ever you'd like to have them. Eudora will remember the placement from one startup to the next. > One last question - Is this the only place to get active Eudora > discussion/user support, or are there other forums for Mac users that are > still active? This is probably the best place to get active discussion and support, but it is also sometimes discussed in comp.sys.mac.comm and uk.comp.sys.mac [1] BBEdit Lite (no longer available from BareBones, but you might be able to turn up a copy with a web search) is the program I've used, and I'm sure BBEdit and TextWrangler work very similarly, but I haven't actually used either so there might be very slight differences to deal with. I know Peter Ceresole has used TextWrangler, so I'm sure he'll pipe up if there's something different about it that you should know.  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 haven't actually used TextWrangler, but I would expect > that it works similarly to BBEdit Lite. It's fairly identical. SignaturePeter |
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