> >Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks. > >You can probably open the files with BBEdit and retrieve your messages in >text format at least. I just tried with the various files in the "Main >Identity" folder, and they all open fine. A lot of gibberish surrounding >the individual messages. > >Did something similar with an Eudora mailbox that had grown too big for my >Q800 to handle it. Opened it with BBEdit, deleted half the messages. >Mailbox fixed. > >Tina
Brilliant! Thanks a million, Tina. I was able to open and save the monster OE Message files in BBEdit (they wouldn't open in OE). There are huge swaths of gibberish characters in the two BBEdit files, but at least I can Search for important names and addresses in the formerly lost emails. The two files are, as I said, huge: does anyone know a quick and easy way to edit out the gibberish (probably tens of thousands of characters, in a document of several hundred thousand characters). Any expertise here much appreciated. In the meantime, I've gone back to using Eudora (now 5.2, the last time I used it every day was version 4.x). It'll take some "retraining", but I have already started backing up the individual message folders it makes (a GREAT feature for me). Are there any negatives to Stuffing the Eudora message folders for backup purposes? Can they get corrupted? It's a nice way to back them up, as a couple of folders were reduced 7-fold (from 28MB to 4MB). Thanks again. Chris P.S. On a side note, I recovered a 3rd problematic OE Message document using BBEdit, then saved that new document in Word 98: the saved document went from 66MB in BBEdit to 161MB in Word 98 (and took almost 3 minutes to save on a G4/550 with 1GB of RAM, 80MB dedicated to Word 98). I think I'll leave the documents in BBEdit. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
