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

What about just splitting it into separate files? With BBEdit or vi
or a perl or php program -- whichever will work best with this large
a file.

On Oct 26, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Eric Fong wrote:

> Hello:
>
> 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.
>
> eric
>
>
> 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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