Which copy of Eudora folder should have the active settings and application, the Applications copy or the System:documens copy? What should be duplicated between them and what shouldn't?
Therein lies your problem. You have multiple copies of things floating around, apparently many incomplete. You need to fix this.
Quit Eudora first. Never fool with its files while it's running!
Make sure you have one and *only* one copy of the Eudora *application* folder on your system.
Now, locate each "Eudora Folder" that contains your user data (settings, mailboxes, address books, etc). By default, it's called "Eudora Folder" and lives in your System Folder, or in your Documents folder (depends on the version of the OS).
Create *one* "Eudora Folder". Do this in some convenient location. You can point Eudora to this folder by putting an alias of it in the System Folder or Documents folder, later.
The critical files are as follows:
Eudora Settings -- This is the central control file for Eudora. This file is what Eudora actually opens FIRST. Eudora then looks in the Settings file's folder to find all this other stuff. IOW, you can switch what Eudora is doing completely if you double-click on a settings file that lives in a different folder.
Eudora Filters -- what you see in Eudora's Filters window.
Eudora Nicknames -- your primary address book file.
Nicknames Folder -- your secondary adress books go in here.
Personal Nicknames -- a "mini" address book that contains just YOUR personal address information and vCard.
IMAP Folder -- A folder full of your IMAP mailboxes, if any.
Mail Folder -- The folder full of your POP2 mailboxes.
Parts Folder -- A folder full of the graphics and such that were included "inline" in email messages.
Attachments Folder -- A folder full of the files attached to incoming email messages.
Stationery Folder -- Your templates for emails.
Signature Folder -- Your sig files.
The other files/folders in there are mostly garbage. Ads, history & link indices, etc. I tend to just delete them now and then -- speeds Eudora up.
You can merge address books one of two ways:
1) In a text editor.
2) Put *all* the old address books in "Nicknames Folder". Launch Eudora. It will then create a new "Eudora Nicknames" file. You can then drag things around in the address book window.
You can merge mailbox files by naming them uniquely and putting them in the Mail Folder. Launch Eudora. Open the Mailboxes window. Open individual mailboxes then drag messages around.
As for things appearing and disappearing... That worries me. That tells me you have a memory allocation problem. Eudora "permanently" maps the In, Out, Junk, and Trash. If they're big, Eudora can run out of memory. Then other functions fail... Perhaps until you get these files in order, you should temporarily give Eudora lots of extra memory, 20000K or more.
HTH, - Dan.
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