http://tidbits.com/ If you've run into a corrupt Eudora mailbox, fear not, because it's easily fixed with common household materials. en-us Copyright 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST 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/9545?rss#comments_17705 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:21:38 EST http://tidbits.com/article/9545#comments_17705
Following your instructions, I was able to get Eurdora to separate correctly, but I can't fix the problem with all the dates being the same. I've run through the process several times, to no avail. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some little detail I'm overlooking?

Thanks for your help!]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/9545?rss#comments_17422 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:34:41 EST http://tidbits.com/article/9545#comments_17422 http://db.tidbits.com/article/9545?rss#comments_17408 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:34:17 EST http://tidbits.com/article/9545#comments_17408
To replace or add just a few email instead of a whole folder, I drag the selected mail from my partner’s computer to my flashdrive, then open Eudora by clicking on the mail file on my flashsdrive, then drag the mail from the summary window into the folder I want it to be in.

Last, I only just discovered the Shift Key + Message>Change>Server..>Fetch Complete Message. Prior to using the Shift key, I’ve tried to Fetch no avail.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/9545?rss#comments_14304 Wed, 23 May 2012 16:10:19 EST http://tidbits.com/article/9545#comments_14304
Silly me tried to transfer out the messages with intact headers prior to fixing the corruption. All that did was ruin a whole load of header dates. The Cut/Paste method didn't restore the dates on the newly corrupted messages.

The method by @jef_chippewa worked, leaving "?"=recovered in status of corrupted messages, contents intact.

Moral. Don't do anything to a corrupted mailbox until the corruption is fixed.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/9545?rss#comments_13898 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:18:10 EST http://tidbits.com/article/9545#comments_13898 http://db.tidbits.com/article/9545?rss#comments_13018 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:42:49 EST http://tidbits.com/article/9545#comments_13018
i had message texts incorrectly separated AND identical dates on 2000+ messages (mailbox had 3500+ messages... yes, slimming it down now!).

close corrupted mailbox, quit Eudora, make compressed backup of "Eudora Forder", place copy of the corrupted mailbox on Desktop. open the mailbox with BBEdit, copy the first line (incl. line return), e.g. "From ???@??? Fri Jul 30 04:05:00 2010", and paste it at the very end of the file and save.

open Eudora, open the mailbox, the messages should flow correctly; identical dates will still be there.

close the corrupted mailbox, quit Eudora and return to BBEdit, delete the line pasted above. save.

open Eudora, open the mailbox, everything should be fine. i have some "Recovered" messages, they seem to be ones i have already transferred to appropriate mailboxes between encountering the corruption and fixing it.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/9545?rss#comments_12124 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:59:26 EST http://tidbits.com/article/9545#comments_12124
Following Adam's instructions (which usually work) resulted in a badly corrupted mailbox - headers looked fine but the mail text was not divided along the original message boundaries - text did not match headers at all.

Opening original corrupted mailbox in Textwrangler got a message "Incorrectly formed UTF-8 / The UTF-8 file is damaged or incorrectly formed; please proceed with caution."

This suggestion http://tinyurl.com/cga2kyj said to fix that to cut/paste the file. So that's all I did - open; select all; cut; paste; save and open in eudora. No other mailbox editing. Eudora still rebuilt the resource fork. My inbox is whole again (excluding read status of course) - 335MB!.

I always duplicate the corrupted mailbox file and save a compressed copy too (I use 7zX) - so I can retry any attempts to restore corruption. Will do more tests.]]>