Re: Eudora mailbox TOC corruption - file too big and it crashes

At 16:46 -0700 2006-10-26, Eric Fong wrote:
>As a disclaimer, I have always told my faculty to keep the number of
>messages in their INBOX to a manageable level. They don't always
>listen to me...
>
>Anyway, one of my users let his INBOX get to about 32,000+ messages
>(278 MB). Of course, he now experienced a TOC corruption and Eudora
>always tries to rebuild it and after it tries, it quits. I managed
>to rename the mailbox and get him up and running again, but every
>time we try to access it, it tries and quits. Any ideas of how to
>access the file at least to view the messages in any form so he can
>get what information he needs? Thanks.

   The vendor's official support articles that discuss how to recover
from this problem appear to be:

   http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2067hq.html
   (Windows)

   http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1271hq.html
   and
   http://eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2068hq.html
   (Macintosh)

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

>Eric Fong
>Computer Resource Specialist
>Department of Ethnic Studies
>506 Barrows Hall #2570
>U.C. Berkeley
>Berkeley, CA 94720-2570
>510.642.6555
>510.642.6456 - Fax
>
>
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