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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / April 2008old style toc and Odyssus
I stupidly installed Leopard in Jan,lost 9 years of maul,reinstalled eudora (used since 96_)discovered the fault was not mine ..turned off sound and have been struggling ever since. This week all the mail in my out box was marked unsent (not a problem )but all the messages and addresses were gone. I run a national Breed Rescue for dogs and I need accurate sent messages. Will changing the toc file possibly prevent this...It seems to happen at night when the program is closed. I use 25 filtered mailbixes and 15 folders....I tried Mosellas Thunderbird but it would not impirt the mail and I did not like it. I am legally blind so I need something as close to Eudora as possible and found the short description of Odyssus and liked the sound. Is there another list I should be on to learn more and what are your thoughts about it. I wa,t Eudira but what choice do I have :-( Petie On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:51:35 -0500, Petie wrote: > I installed Leopard in Jan, lost 9 years of mail, ... > This week all the mail in my out box was marked unsent (not a problem) > but all the messages and addresses were gone. Could be TOC corruption. A possible rescue (how to fix and/or delete a TOC in resource fork, before "compacting" destroys the entire mailbox) might be found in: "How to Fix Corrupt Eudora Mailboxes" http://db.tidbits.com/article/9545 [04 Apr 2008] In the longer term, it appears better, according to reports, to convert to using TOC files, instead of resource forks. A user has recently posted the following info to a mailing list, which I simply copy below (as I can't test or verify it): --- Begin quoted material [with notes] --- 1. In Miscellaneous settings, tick the checkbox to use "old style" TOC's. 2. Quit Eudora, open the Spool Folder inside the Eudora Mail folder, and delete In.temp and Out.temp. 3. Launch Eudora. Rebuild all the mailboxes by option-clicking the message count box in the lower corner of any open mailbox window [be sure to "fix" any already-corrupted mailboxes before doing this!] The reason for step 2 is that step 3 did not suffice to convert In.temp and Out.temp to separate TOC files. This has eliminated all my problems with Eudora crashing in Leopard. [see "Notice to OS X 10.5 'Leopard' users" on http://www.eudora.com/download/ for more necessary info] The only unsolved idiosyncrasy is that sometimes the Task Progress window shows "cleaning up" indefinitely after checking mail. The fix for this is to simply check mail again. --- End quote --- You gave me the following instructions the ither day and I need help finding "Rebuild all the mailboxes by option-clicking the message count box in the lower corner of any open mailbox window " can't find count box in lower left hand corner of ..... 1. In Miscellaneous settings, tick the checkbox to use "old style" TOC's. 2. Quit Eudora, open the Spool Folder inside the Eudora Mail folder, and delete In.temp and Out.temp. 3. Launch Eudora. Rebuild all the mailboxes by option-clicking the message count box in the lower corner of any open mailbox window [be sure to "fix" any already-corrupted mailboxes before doing this!] The reason for step 2 is that step 3 did not suffice to convert In.temp and Out.temp to separate TOC files. > This has eliminated all my problems with Eudora crashing in Leopard. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > --- End quote --- > You gave me the following instructions the ither day and I need help > finding [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > can't find count box in lower left hand corner of ..... Open (for instance) the 'In' mailbox. In list view, the message count is in the bottom margin of the window, to the left. In my Inbox it says 406/1254K/72K. Option click on any part of that and you'll see a small progress window that opens to show you Eudora cycling through all the mailboxes- here, it took a few seconds. At the end of this, the line now shows 406/1254K/0K. That 0K shows that the mailbox has been rebuilt and compacted. Looking at any of the other mailbox list windows will show you that they have been similarly compacted. In the good old bad old days of Eudora 1.n to 3.n this was a little housekeeping ritual yo be done by hand. Later Eudoras do it automagically when the the mailboxes need it.  SignaturePeter In article <7731280c-e75b-4c56-80f3-51b1b04e72ba@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, > I am legally blind so I need something as close > to Eudora as possible and found the short description of Odyssus and > liked the sound. Is there another list I should be on to learn more > and what are your thoughts about it. There are message boards for Odysseus on the Infinity Data Systems website: <http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/forums/index.php> The program is currently undergoing beta testing, and I don't think it is yet ready for regular use. There is a lot of discussion on the forums that is only visible to the beta testers. At this point, you'd have to email IDS to ask for access to the beta and to be able to post to the beta testing forums. Roberta SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** > In article > <7731280c-e75b-4c56-80f3-51b1b04e7...@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Remove "spamaway" to reply > ** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com** THANKS but I would not understand what they wee talking about :-)I will wait till it's ready. I hate to spend $40 and have t be nothing like Eudora but I guess someoine will know here about that. I miss the little pigs. Petie |
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