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

Those pesky, absent-minded professors. (Like I haven't learned the
hard way!!!)

Eudora's mail folders can be read by any plaintext or html compatible
app, including TextEdit (my preference because of the access with the
quick-and-dirty Find) or a browser. Yes you see html code, but it's
pretty easy to find the important stuff.

First off, my recommendation is to quit Eudora, rename the In file
and then reopen the email app so as to create a fresh In box so said
absent-minded person can get back to work.

I always suggest to everyone that they archive their In and Out boxes
every six months -- certainly every year. And for the truly
absent-minded, sending a reminder once a year is perhaps not too
onerous a task (depending on whether your department is friendly to
the occasional computer support "tip" email). It saves YOU pain and
anguish, as well as your users. (Ahem. Please note that I put a
reminder in iCal to myself for these occasional tips, because I'm
nearly as absent-minded as the worst of those pesky professors!
Hence my great sympathy to their occasional confusion.)

Eudora has great handling for attachments, a user-friendly archiving
system, and a wonderful "search" tool, so I'm rather fond of it. But
the In and Out box size limitations do tend to trip up people (if
only a warning occurred BEFORE the threshold was reached, sigh).

- Marilyn

At 4:46 PM -0700 10/26/06, 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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