http://tidbits.com/ After years of entirely justified procrastination, Adam attempts to convert his stored mail in Eudora — nearly 1 million messages in over 600 mailboxes — to, well, something else. The reason? The loss of Rosetta in Lion. The process? A long and troublesome journey, with no clear end, but hopefully some lessons you can apply when converting your own Eudora archive. en-us Copyright 2011 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EDT editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_18527 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:23:32 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_18527 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_18526 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:23:06 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_18526 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_18523 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:48:20 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_18523
Nice post,
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I ran the trial under WinXP on a BootCamp'd MacBook. Moving the mail to WinXP was a bit of a hassle and it was amusing to see the antivirus springing to action to quarantine years' of Windows malware in the archive that had never bothered OS X.

After transferring the Eudora Folder, I configured A4Mail to convert Eurdora to an Outlook PST. The test version is limited to 50 emails per folder.

That was enough to find an apparent deal breaker with using a Windows application to process Mac files. It turns out that many of the attachments in this archive lack file extensions since MacOS and OS X didn't require extensions and used file creator/type meta data instead.

The bottom line is that A4Mail considered the naked file names to have an "invalid format" and declined to convert them.

So, I'm abandoning testing A4Mail.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_16685 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:51:56 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_16685
I'm looking into Aid4Mail to convert Eudora (Mac) -> Outlook (Win) -> Gmail. Gmail Uploader for Mac doesn't convert attachments so I'm willing to route through Outlook (on Windows).

Aid4Mail has a nice FAQ for Mac users of Eudora:

http://www.aid4mail.com/faq-mac.phpbr />

Thanks again.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_15798 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:18:29 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_15798 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_15796 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:13:14 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_15796 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_15794 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:06:42 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_15794
btw EudoraExport isn't considered a Add-On, Extension or Plug-In is it?]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_15713 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:52:51 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_15713 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_15708 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:01:42 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_15708 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_14839 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:34:23 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_14839 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_14832 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:43:46 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_14832 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_14654 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:34:25 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_14654
As far as the text factory goes, it's possible that there's a different form of corruption that you'd need to tease out and solve in a similar fashion - impossible to say without a lot of specific testing.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_14645 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:19:47 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_14645
When I option-click the box in the lower left-hand corner of a mailbox, a message comes up saying, "Scheduling Compactions." Mailbox names flash on and off, the message closes and the right-hand number in the message-counter box changes to 0, but when I open other mailboxes, that number hasn't changed.

Also, I ran the BBEdit text factory you suggested and transferred the messages from the problem mailboxes to new ones, but still get errors.

Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.

UPDATE: I must not have waited long enough after option-clicking. Now all the mailboxes show 0 unused disk space.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_14385 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:46:19 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_14385 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_14381 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:29:03 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_14381 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_13890 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:46:28 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_13890 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_13887 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:00:36 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_13887
I feel like I'm about to go to a funeral for a trusted friend - my beloved Eudora!!]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_13769 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:10:29 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_13769
I also have a folder containing usernames and passwords for some accounts. If I ever have to change one, I just edit it instead of making a new one.

Yes, I could always send again but the user/pw ones I never even sent. Just made a little note and filed it in the mailbox.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_13768 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:05:32 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_13768 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_12685 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:47:01 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_12685 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_12684 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:19:40 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_12684 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_12238 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:46:13 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_12238 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_12234 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:00:34 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_12234 ]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_12163 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:58:46 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_12163 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_12162 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:27:09 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_12162 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_12161 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:45:28 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_12161 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_12159 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:00:17 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_12159 http://db.tidbits.com/article/12382?rss#comments_12012 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:11:45 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/12382#comments_12012
The major surprise for me was how really crude the Mail.app experience seems after 14 years of using Eudora. The way Mail handles mailboxes has been a source of major frustration. With Eudora I found it convenient to create separate Eudora Folders for my three accounts, each accessible via an alias of the respective settings file in the dock. That way I could locate an item that I need much faster than when the mailboxes (and their subfolders) for all three accounts are crammed into a single sidebar - especially as mailbox folders enclosing subfolders will not open with a double click, precise clicking on the triangle is required. The ability to access mailboxes from the Eudora Mailbox menu - drilling down through successive subfolders, if required - is vastly superior. Similarly Mail's procedure for moving messages and/or creating rules is really primitive compared to Eudora's facility to create destination mailboxes as part of a single seamless process. Given that development of Eudora ground to a halt in 2006 one could be forgiven for expecting a lot better from Apple's in-house e-mail client in 2011.
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