[blindeudora] Re: Eudora Crashed
- From: Christopher Maule-Oatway <c.maule@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindeudora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:57:16 +0100
Hello Tom,
I can't help with where the missing e-mails have gone from your
inbox, but here are two suggestions that should make Eudora work
better for you.
First, it's a really good idea to compact mailboxes as often as
possible. When you delete a message from a mailbox, the space in the
mailbox cannot be re-used until the mailbox is compacted. It sounds
like your inbox had reached some sort of size limit, so Eudora was
compacting it for you! Before quitting Eudora, I make a habit of
emptying the trash mailbox and then compacting the mailboxes.
Compacting mailboxes is easy. Go into the Special menu where you
will find the Compact Mailboxes option. Just press the Enter key and
Eudora will start compacting. This might take some time!
The second suggestion is: keep as little as possible in the inbox,
outbox, junk and trash, in fact, it's best to keep nothing in these
mailboxes. When you start Eudora, these mailboxes are loaded into
memory, so the more you have in them, the more memory they will be using.
I hope this is useful.
Cheers,
Christopher
At 12:09 19/08/2007 -0500, you wrote:
Hi,
For the past few days at night when I turn of Eudora, I get a
message that Eudora is compacting mailbox or somesuch, cant exactly
remember. It usually locks up until I have to hit the end program
key cause it isn't responding. Today when I turned my puter on, it
kept rebooting and I couldn't sort out what was going
on. Eventually it straightened out after I left it alone and took a
shower. I conjecture that Eudora was trying to rebuild my inbox,
because when the machine finally stopped rebooting, and I opened
Eudora, I got a message that told me my inbox had been rebuilt and
it appears to have lost about two hundred messages. Not wanting to
risk those remaining in box messages , I moved them to a different
folder I named movedinbox. Now I am left wondering just what
happened. Did Eudora keep rebooting my machine, or was it some
other electronic snafu of a transient nature or did the messed up
in box and its rebuilding cause this instability or what. I guess
at this point I am just posting this to see if anyone can shed some
light on what may have happened. It might be time to retire this
present copy of Eudora and start over fresh with a new install as
this current copy is definitely bloated.
Thanks to anyone who has any ideas or comments.
Tom
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