Aaron wrote: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,... >>Eudora Folder. You can thus have two or more Eudora setups...>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
Andrew replied:
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...
...I've just reactiveated my mailboxes (for about the 4th time... hope they hold this time!).
I believe Aaron is directly on the right track regarding your Eudora issues. I think when you are opening Eudora you are triggering settings and the whole mail folder for a newly created or "master default" Eudora folder.
Do a Find File or Sherlock search for "eudora settings." I'll bet at least two different ones show up along with "settings.bkup" for each. At least one will be in your system folder. Try dragging the whole Eudora folder(s) of one(or more if you have more than two) to the trash then start up Eudora by clicking settings of the remaining one and see if your mailboxes with addresses is are there. If not quit Eudora and swap the one in the trash with the one in the system folder( If there are more than two obviously you need to keep track rotating these).
Hopefully one of these will be the Eudora folder with your info., addresses, attachments folder etc.
I *think* you can just trash/delete whole folders for the ones that you don't need. It was some time ago when I did this and can't recall exactly. I do know that just trashing settings files does no good because Eudora recreates them (with .bkup file name).
If you do this carefully you should find the correct Eudora folder and settings to keep and then only launch Eudora by clicking the settings folder. Qualcomm used to have some Eudora tech support info. which you can try to look up.
Mike
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