Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / June 2004

Yours is a different question from the one aswered above, I think.

If you don't have too much mail, what you can do is copy your brother's
entire Eudora folder onto the zip disk. The Eudora Folder will most
liekly be in the System Folder or the Documents folder on the Performa.
Copy the folder again from the disk onto the new machine. If there is
no-one else using Eudora on that machine, copy it to the same location
as on the old one. If there is more in there than will fit onto a zip
disk, please read below for options.

HOWEVER: If there is more than one mail account on the new machine,
i.e., there's already a valid Eudora folder there that is in use for
other accounts, you will need to keep the two separate. There are
several ways to do this, the simplest is to just keep the new one in a
different location and Start Eudora by doubleclicking the relevant
Eudora folder's Settings file. This will force Eudora to use that
particular folder and its corresponding account. You can also import
everything into one structure, but I won't go into that here.

IF THE MAIL FOLDER IS TOO BIG TO FIT ON ONE ZIP DISK:
See if you can move everything except the Attachments folder, usually
found inside the Eudora folder, then move the attachments diskfull by
diskfull, to the new machine, recreating the Attachemnt folder inside
the (new) Eudora folder there. If that doesn't work, you probably ought
to find something that can compress the folder(s) into one file and then
split that in segments, like Stuffit in the Pro version can, or most
backup software, then restore on the other machine.

Good luck.

/Jon

The idea of the 'Transfer' mailbox [1] is only if you *don't* want to
transfer everything- which was what the original poster had asked..

To transfer everything, simply copy from one Mac to the other the
folder:: HD:System folder:Eudora Folder. It may be in the Documents
folder rather than the System Folder. Put it in the same place on the
new Mac.

That will transfer all the mail and the settings files.

Unless you are simultaneously upgrading Eudora itself, also transfer the
folder in which he keeps the Eudora application. That will also transfer
any files like Eudora tables or any special settings enablers like
SuperSleek, if he has them installed.

[1] There's nothing special about a 'Transfer' mailbox; it's just an
ordinary mailbox that has been named 'Transfer'. I could have called it
'Swap' or even 'Fred'. It would make no difference to the way it works.
But it's not what you need here.