[blindeudora] FYI: Compact mailboxes
- From: Lennie <lennie_r@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindeudora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:43:56 -0400
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
List web page: //www.freelists.org/webpage/blindeudora
Send all list problems or inquires to: blindeudora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
to un subscribe:
blindeudora-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject
field
Other related posts:
