I've been silent for the last month or so. My problem with multiple emails and temporary incoming was never fixed, despite help from many on the list including you, Chris. I just accepted the problem after a while and continued to delete the DS_Store files, the dupe emails and the temp incoming files that wouldn't leave.
I'm sorry to hear that anyone else is having this problem, but relieved to finally have some validation. I've been using CE since it was first introduced, and I'm on my 6th or 7th mac since my b/w classic. I stopped posting my struggle with this same problem when I seemed to have exhausted all the remedies list members suggested.
Not only was the problem never solved, it escalated somehow about a week and a half ago. I got a sudden freeze, and ever since, emailer has defied every fix I tried. A few times I got it to stay open long enough to export my addresses, thank goddess, and a few times it actually received a few emails from one of my addresses before freezing up, but basically, it has been dead for ten days. Yes, I've rebuilt and reinstalled--two or three times at least. From running on my G4 desktop, I moved if first to my new PB, then I even took my beige G3 out of mothballs . . . it crashed every time. And the havoc it's caused is forcing me now to reformat all my HDs and reinstall everything.
I've been intending to post one last S.O.S., and I guess this is it. At this point, I have a database (in numerous editions, one for every rebuild or reinstall) of about 70MB or 8000 emails. Over the last month I've tried everything to convert or translate it:
Importing into Eudora, Mail, Outlook Express--none of which was successful, because CE has to to be running for them to work; Emailchemy 1.5, which froze after 287 emails; MailConverter 2.5.5, which also needed CE; and Mail Convert 2.2.4, which ran the emails together and seemed to retrieve more symbols than words.
At this point I'm looking for a service bureau or mega-expert that I can pay to have these file salvaged. I am not asking anyone on the list to volunteer, unless they will accept payment. It's worth $100 and up to me--I've already got a few hundred hours invested in it.
Hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I'm past trying new fixes. I'm just too exhausted. Many thanks again to all those who've tried to help along the way,
Dave G.
Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Jul 30, 2003 6:29:31 AM US/Pacific To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Emailer Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re: Re: Finding OS 9.2?
I am still having this problem as well. Using 10.2.6. I have tried
throwing away the temp folder, then closing all other folders and
restarting emailer and it does not work. Even restarting Emailer
multiple times does not make some of the emails go away. They never get
deleted unless you trash them from the finder. Also, when checking more
than one email address, it only shows the emails from the first address
until you restart. The the other ones show up as well.
You have physically thrown away the Temp Incoming folder, and yet the
emails reappear? Then it sounds like you aren't throwing away the correct
folder.
Make sure you are in the right Emailer Files folder and that Emailer
isn't looking elsewhere for its support files. (Check your preferences
for Files and Folders, that will tell you the path to your Emailer Files
folder).
-chris <http://www.mythtech.net>
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