Are you using OS X? I had presumed when reading your earlier posts that you were running Eudora under 9.x and was writing a response. You should make this clear in your messages to the list.
No, sorry, guess I forgot to mention this. I'm using OS9.1.
The following is based on my experience with Eudora 5.0 and 5.1. under OS 9.2 and earlier. I hope it's helpful to those who have been posting to this list about problems with Eudora. (I don't know what applies to Eudora 6.x or OS X.)
1) Eudora Settings does not contain any information about mail folders. When the program starts up, it just looks in the Mail Folder inside the Eudora Folder and creates its list of Mailboxes.
2) You can also have several settings files with different names inside the Eudora Folder. You can use any such settings file as THE settings file by opening it, either from the Finder or from the Eudora file menu. You can create a totally new settings file by starting up Eudora without any settings file inside the Eudora folder. (It might work if you just rename the existing settings file -- I don't remember!) You can also duplicate an existing settings file, open it, and then modifying the settings.
3) You can also have Eudora Settings files inside different Eudora folders. If you open any Eudora Settings file, Eudora will start up or restart with that settings file being regarded as THE settings file and whatever folder contains that file being regarded as THE Eudora Folder. You can thus have two or more Eudora setups -- with different heirarchies of mail folders, address lists, etc. -- working with the same startup disk. This should make it easy to experiment with different settings without having multiple mail folders.
4) I haven't tried it, but I suppose you could even be running two such setups at once by duplicating the program and dropping the settings file from each setup on a different copy of the program! It would be a good idea, of course, to give the two copies different names.
Doesn't help me. The mailboxes are there but the program isn't accessing them... have to open and close each one individually to activate them. My real problem here is that my Address Book (there IS no Eudora item by this name, so I guess it's the "Nicknames" file) isn't being activated, and I can't see how to correct this. Eudora's a great program except for losing mailboxes, addresses and signatures every time you install a new OS.
6.0 is basically the same as 5.1/5.2, with one or two minor additions.
My copy of 5.2 had stopped autoscrolling (so to select a block of text that ran off the bottom of the screen I'd have to select what was on-screen, delete, then select some more & delete... a real pain; typing to the end of the screen, the text would disappear & I'd be typing blind unless I used the scrollbar). When I upgraded to 6.0 the problem remained. I managed to correct it later.
I've just reactiveated my mailboxes (for about the 4th time... hope they hold this time!).
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