transferring mailboxes in Eudora

[Prot]

My roommate had a critical hard drive crash, and a computer repair place here in town were able to recover most of the data files, including the Eudora file structure.

Here's the issue. She needs to import the mailboxes from a 6.x version of Eudora into version 7.x. She is running Vista now, where she was running 6.x on Xp Home. I do not think that 6.x will run on Vista, although I may be mistaken. I copied all the mbx and toc files that were recovered into the Eudora folder on the new system, but Eudora will not acknowledge them. It sees the mailboxes she created herself, but it is not recognizing the inbox or outbox mailboxes.

I tried uninstalling, deleting any remaining files in the Eudora folder, copied all the recovered files into the Eudora folder, then re-installing Eudora, but it still will not see the old mailboxes.

Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks

[redwudz]

I haven't used Eudora in a long time. Has she tried installing 6X in Vista's XP SP2 compatibility mode? I was thinking if she could get it running and get the mailboxes in it, maybe could upgrade that install to 7X.

Other than that, maybe the Eudora site. I did a quick search there for ' installing mailboxes ' and there seems to be quite a few entries:
http://www.eudora.com/search/query.html?qp=EPWIN+url%3A%2Fwin%2F&qt=installing+mailbox...b+eudora2&qm=1 The first entry may relate to your problem.

If that link doesn't work, the Home page: http://www.eudora.com/

I did see note there about where Eudora installs the directories, etc. It uses the old install info when you upgrade. With a new install it may be putting them in a different place and the mailboxes may not have the same address, maybe still the old one. You should be able to tell it where to put them and the directories when you install the program. Just make it's the same as the old 6X install. If Eudora is looking in the wrong location, it may not see the mailboxes.

Vista puts a lot of stuff in different locations than XP, so that may relate to the problem.

[AlanHK]

, but it is not recognizing the inbox or outbox mailboxes.

I use an older version of Eudora, but it sounds like the same structure.
Anyway, the "Inbox" and "Outbox" are rather special. It will create those on a new install.
It probably wants to use the ones it made.

But you should be able to rename the old ones to some other name (e.g., In-old.mbx, In-old.toc) and throw them in the same directory. If Eudora sees them, you can open the mailbox and move the messages into the new In/Out boxes if you like.

Also, if it does not list the contents correctly, you can try deleting or hiding the toc files (which are indexes to the mailboxes), Eudora should make new ones on seeing the mbx files. You'll lose some status info, but the rest will be recovered from the Subject, To, From, Date lines in the actual message.

[Prot]

Renaming the old in and out mailboxes is exactly was I was going to try next. Thanks for confirming my idea, AlanHK.

This is perfectly acceptable to her, as long as she has access to the old emails.


Redwuz,

I searched EVERYWHERE for residual files. When Eudora was installed, I told it to keep all the program files, and data files, in the \Progam Files\Qualcomm\Eudora folder just so I would not have to search elsewhere for files in other locations, but evidently it does place files somewhere. Oh well, I think renaming the old mailboxes will do the trick.

Thanks for the responses.

[Prot]

Renaming mailboxes resolved the problem!

Thanks for the help.