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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / December 2007Blue square with count of unread mails
This blue square with a white number in it, quite large, has suddenly taken to appearing on my desktop. The number shows how many unread mails I have in whichever mailbox I'm looking at. I've never seen this before. It doesn't harm but I wondered why it suddenly appeared. I've been running 6.2.4 for about a year and 10.4.11 since it came out. > This blue square with a white number in it, quite large, has suddenly > taken to appearing on my desktop. The number shows how many unread mails > I have in whichever mailbox I'm looking at. I've never seen this before. > It doesn't harm but I wondered why it suddenly appeared. > > I've been running 6.2.4 for about a year and 10.4.11 since it came out. Unless you turned it off, it should've been there all along, I think. Look in Settings for "Getting Attention" where you'll see a pair of checkboxes under "Unread mail count in dock." I think the default is not to use the second setting. Leaving that turned off shows the message count only in the "In" mailbox whereas I prefer to see my total unread count. = Steve =  SignatureSteve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama > > This blue square with a white number in it, quite large, has suddenly > > taken to appearing on my desktop. The number shows how many unread mails [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > message count only in the "In" mailbox whereas I prefer to see my total > unread count. First place I looked. Hummmmm, it's not in the Duck, though. It's on the Desktop, a bit to the right of the dock and a bit underneath the toolbar (i.e., nowhere near the Eudora icons in the dock). It's "painted" on the desktop, that is, I can use another window (from some other app), or a desktop icon, to erase bits of it just like I'm rubbing it out in a paint program. Odd. > > > This blue square with a white number in it, quite large, has suddenly > > > taken to appearing on my desktop. The number shows how many unread mails [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Odd. Sounds like a third party program. Could be cool if you actually wanted it there. :-) SignatureSteve W. Jackson Montgomery, Alabama > This blue square with a white number in it, quite large, has suddenly > taken to appearing on my desktop. The number shows how many unread mails > I have in whichever mailbox I'm looking at. I've never seen this before. > It doesn't harm but I wondered why it suddenly appeared. > > I've been running 6.2.4 for about a year and 10.4.11 since it came out. As others have noted, this is the result of a Eudora feature that can be turned on and off that's supposed to put that box on top of the Eudora dock icon. I have also seen it wander afield, and when that happens the only fix I've found is to quit and restart Eudora. SignatureNow where did I hide that website... > > This blue square with a white number in it, quite large, has suddenly > > taken to appearing on my desktop. The number shows how many unread mails [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > turned on and off that's supposed to put that box on top of the Eudora > dock icon. I'm aware if this feature, > I have also seen it wander afield, and when that happens the > only fix I've found is to quit and restart Eudora. but I've never heard of it "wandering". I'll try a restart as you suggest. I was a bit concerned because a number of small oddities have suddenly appeared on my system so I wondered if a playful hacker had got in. Thanks, > but I've never heard of it "wandering". I'll try a restart as you > suggest. In my experience, in the case of oddities a restart is *always* a good idea. > I was a bit concerned because a number of small oddities have suddenly > appeared on my system so I wondered if a playful hacker had got in. True for the system as well as for Eudora. A restart takes little time. Except for a few specialised purposes, uptime is for the birds. SignaturePeter > > > This blue square with a white number in it, quite large, has suddenly > > > taken to appearing on my desktop. The number shows how many unread mails [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > I was a bit concerned because a number of small oddities have suddenly > appeared on my system so I wondered if a playful hacker had got in. I think the gremlin is either named "Carbon" or "Steve D." That's not a serious criticism of Mr. Dorner, because when one considers that Eudora has been evolving on various systems called the Mac OS since the late 80's it is stunning that it works at all. It's just that there is a limit to how far any program can be evolved and adapted, and eventually the whole thing gets unstable. I drive Eudora pretty hard and can get it to break in this way and a stack of other ways just by asking it to do what I would like to have it handle. It helps to learn that there is a point where Eudora starts to act badly and it is best to restart it before whatever has gone bad spreads. I find that if I keep having Eudora check my multiple POP3 and IMAP accounts and run them through my dozens of filters into various local and IMAP folders holding a few GB's of mail, the first bltant sign of trouble is that detached and update-broken unread count box (mine sits on the upper left of my screen next to where I have my customized button-bar sitting) and the next sign a few hours later is Eudora crashing. SignatureNow where did I hide that website... > > > > This blue square with a white number in it, quite large, has suddenly > > > > taken to appearing on my desktop. The number shows how many unread [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > button-bar sitting) and the next sign a few hours later is Eudora > crashing. Bill, :-) Thanks. In recent days I have had: 1) the blue square 2) some text colours in a Pages doc reverting to b/w (but there may be a bug in the colour picker I am using to choose Pantone colours) 3) the icon for My Computer (or whatever it's called) in a Finder sidebar suddenly being for an iLamp instead on a Mini 4) and at least one other the nature of which escapes me right now. I find odd behaviour in Eudora (after 18 years of use) to be quite rare, so I didn't suspect it initially. > 3) the icon for My Computer (or whatever it's called) in a Finder > sidebar suddenly being for an iLamp instead on a Mini I see an icon or two go wonky after I've had many days of uptime. (checking... currently at 20 days. Hmmm). I'm not sure if this is specifically Eudora related, but a restart wouldn't hurt when you see this. Roberta SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > 3) the icon for My Computer (or whatever it's called) in a Finder > > sidebar suddenly being for an iLamp instead on a Mini [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > specifically Eudora related, but a restart wouldn't hurt when you see > this. A restart of Eudora has duly fixed the wandering thingy. Thanks. |
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