[blindeudora] Re: FYI: Compact mailboxes
- From: Doris and Chris <chipmunks@xxxxxxx>
- To: blindeudora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:10:01 -0400
Dear Sr. Lino,
I have been using Eudora since 1996 when we first got Internet access
thru my husband's university at the time. I had sight at the time
still and Uni had provided a floppy disk set with some internet
access programs among which was Eudora for Email.
I did not know about compacting emails at the time either and I
accidentally found out just yesterday when I had the exact opposite
problem of yours in that I lost some emails that were of importance
to me without intending to do so. Fortuatnely, a was able to get some
of them back.
And, yes, I always keep a copy of my Eudora data directory, have done
so for almost as long as I use Eudora. I am a chronic but confessing
packract and archive just about anything that I am intersted in or
think it might be of use or interst to me or someone else in the future.
Thanks for sharing the info and happy computing!
Doris
Warm Regards,
Doris
At 01:43 PM 6/9/2012 -0400, you wrote:
Hi,
I just learned something new after I have been using Eudora for 12
years. Perhaps, some of you may already know this, but in case you
don't, I would like to share this with you.
As I have written in the past, I always run into trouble when I copy
my mailboxes from my XP desktop computer and paste them into my
Eudora on my windows7 laptop computer.
The problem is that I always end up with emails in various mailboxes
that have been deleted from my desktop and removed from the trash
can before I copy them. I would have to spend a lot of time on my
laptop deleting those emails all over again. This is time consuming!
I would have the same problem when I copy the mailboxes and paste
them back on my Desktop computer.
I was totally frustrated with this procedure and I could not get any
satisfaction or answers no matter how I tried. Deleting the MBX
files first on my laptop did not help any.
The solution: After I did some searching, I found the answer. When
you delete any emails and dump them into the trash can and remove
them from the trash can, all those emails that have been deleted are
still in their original mailboxes, but they have been tagged for
deletion. You won't see them and there is a way to recover them if need to be.
So, by going to special and arrow to compact mailboxes and press
enter on it, all those emails that have been tagged for deletion are
erased and disk space is free up.
Now when I copy my mailboxes after compacting them, I no longer get
those emails on my laptop that were previously deleted on my desktop.
I hope that this makes sense to the list. I don't know if many on
the list are in the habit of copying mailboxes from one computer to
another like I do, but this way I will have an exact copy on both computers.
Just thought that you might like to know. Any comments will be welcome.
Take care.
Lennie
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