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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / July 2004Move Eudora from Win to Mac
Hello people, i've just moved from a Win XP Box to a Mac with Os x. I want to use Eudora as the mail application of choice but of course I don't want to loose all of my old emails and contacts! Since Eudora for some wacky reason doesn't have an export option, I simply tried to move the in and out files from the pc to the mac. It didn't work :) Even setting the right creator and type didn't help much and Eudora complains that they aren't valid mailboxes. I guess it has to be something related to the different way of handling line feeds or end of lines between the two worlds. So, have anyone ever had a similar problem and if so, how did you fix it? Thanks for any tip. Greets, Ivan  Signature-=CoCo=- .: www.mechano.it :. .: Illustrator Evangelist :) :. > It didn't work :) Even setting the right creator and type didn't help > much and Eudora complains that they aren't valid mailboxes. I guess it > has to be something related to the different way of handling line feeds > or end of lines between the two worlds. Exactly right. You need to change the line feeds from <LF><CR> (Windows) to <CR> (Mac). Just to complete the set, although not relevant here, Unix line endings are <LF>. The simplest way is to load your meil boxes into a text editor like BBEdit and 'Save As' a Mac file, or into TextEdit *in Text only mode* and delete <LF>s. The Eudora mailboxes should then load into your Mac version without trouble. Oh yes, and of course only work on copies, just in case... SignaturePeter > "(`. CoCo .)" <ivan@NoNoSpamzzZmechano.it> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Oh yes, and of course only work on copies, just in case... well it worked perfectly :) Honestly I didn't think about opening the big mbox file in an editor and saving it in another format. Sometimes the best solution is the easiest solution :)) Now I'm an happy Eudora user again. The only catch is that I've lost all the connection to the attachments but I can live with it. Thanks for the tip! Ivan www.mechano.it Signature-=CoCo=- .: www.mechano.it :. .: Illustrator Evangelist :) :. |
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