Okay, I know it's a long shot but-- Has anyone worked with Eudora 6.2.x on Windows 7?
I've got a few people set up with this, some of them have been using it without incident for nearly a year. They are all running as restricted domain users. Eudora 6 does have some peculiarities in Windows 7, most notably, the first time it is run on the restricted user account, it has to be run "as administrator" so it can set itself as the default mail client. It is not possible to manually set it as the default in Windows 7. As with previous versions of Eudora and OSes going back to Win 2000, Eudora must be installed in a folder off the root and shortcuts must point to separate folders for each mail account to be used. Note also that this is Eudora 6, the last version of Eudora that is really Eudora. Subsequent versions are just Thunderbird with some GUI stuff to make it sorta-kinda resemble Eudora. The actual software doesn't work the same way at all. All of this has worked fine until today. Today, for a restricted user it began popping up error messages like, "can't copy SomeTempFile from \users\thisuser\appdata\local to \User's Mail Account Folder", and "can't open \User's Mail Account Folder\somefile". "Hm, looks like a permissions issue," sez me. So I logged in as Administrator and explicitly granted Full Control over the entire Eudora folder hierarchy to the user. No dice. So I backed up her mailboxes and tried to wipe out all of her account folders. That's when things really started getting squirrely. Windows 7 said "access denied" when I, as administrator, tried to delete the folders; it wouldn't let me touch several of them. (I guess because those folders get created by the restricted user account when Eudora is first run--but since when is an administrator not allowed to delete any user-created files on a computer??) Eventually, through an arduous process that involved me taking control of the folders and their contents, and then STILL having to explicitly assign myself full control permissions for them, I was able to delete the user account folders. So then as the restricted user I went in and re-created the folders and ran Eudora to recreate the accounts. Same problem. So I completely uninstalled Eudora, removed the folder hierarchy (again going through the same insane permission machinations), deleted every single reference to Eudora from the registry, went into the user's \thisuser\appdata\ local\ folder and deleted the pesky temp file the error messages kept referring to. Then I elevated the restricted user to local administrator and installed Eudora from her account, set up the email accounts, and...STILL no dice. Same errors. So at that point I gave up. I uninstalled Eudora and deleted everything and went with Thunderbird (T-bird tee-doubleyou-oh TWO (2) NOT godforsaken 3 but that's another story...) The only real difference between this user and other users who have been using Eudora 6 on Win 7 for nearly a year is that this machine is new and has had very recent Windows updates. On the other hand, I have a user who has an even newer machine with even more recent updates who--so far--has not reported a problem. On the third hand the problem user had been using the system for nearly a month after it was last updated and the problem first appeared today. It's as though Windows 7 suddenly acquired an autoimmune disease and attacked a benign portion of itself. Has anybody seen this (unlikely) or anything similar to this (maybe more likely) with Windows 7? Thanks. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
