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Peter Ceresole - 26 Jan 2008 17:50 GMT

I'm using Eudora 6.1.1, in OS10.4.11. Previously I was running 10.3.9. I
upgraded yesterday. Everything is fine except...

I have the 'getting attention' alert sound set to 'Attention.aiff',
which is a short aiff file that I made, and which lives in
~/library/sounds/

It also lives in HD/sounds/alert sounds.

It worked fine in OS10.3.9, but in 10.4.11 the alert sound appears to be
fixed on 'funk', whatever I change it to in 'Settings'.

My Eudora New Mail sound is also set to an aiff file I made, and that
plays fine when new mail appears.

Any thoughts? I'm sure that the Eudora alert sounds need to be aiff
files, but where should they live?

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Martin S. - 26 Jan 2008 18:05 GMT

> Any thoughts? I'm sure that the Eudora alert sounds need to be aiff
> files, but where should they live?

You can place them in any "Sounds" folder within a "Library":

Macintosh HD > Library > Sounds

Macintosh HD > Users > Peter > Library > Sounds

Macintosh HD > System > Library > Sounds (authorisation required)

My Eudora seems them just fine separated with a delimiter line depending
on location.

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morenuf - 27 Jan 2008 00:21 GMT

> > Any thoughts? I'm sure that the Eudora alert sounds need to be aiff
> > files, but where should they live?
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> My Eudora seems them just fine separated with a delimiter line depending
> on location.

I have used Eudora since 1990 or so. I long ago (>10 years) put a
"You've Got Mail!" aiff in my Eudora (I have forgotten just where in OS8
& 9) but in OSX I have had it in both root library/sounds and for years
now in ~/library/sounds/ and it has worked perfectly.

Not happy about Eudora being orphaned but I will continue to use it
until some OS change breaks it. 17+ years is long time to give it up.

Morenuf

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Martin S. - 27 Jan 2008 00:43 GMT

> Not happy about Eudora being orphaned but I will continue to use it
> until some OS change breaks it. 17+ years is long time to give it up.

I totally agree and I hope these guys will succeed building a worthy
successor:
<http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/products/odysseus/>

Check their forum for details and screen snaps.

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Peter Ceresole - 27 Jan 2008 20:30 GMT

> It worked fine in OS10.3.9, but in 10.4.11 the alert sound appears to be
> fixed on 'funk', whatever I change it to in 'Settings'.

D'oh.

It's one of the things that's changed in the system; it now has to be
selected also in the general sound prefs. Not so before. And so it works
fine now.

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