I use Eudora 4.2 on a beige G3, OS9.1. The other day, I opened an old
e-mail, and it was a mess. I know the mailbox is basically a text file,
and it looked like it has lost whatever tells it where one message
begins and the previous ends. Now the older messages look like a random
sampling of the mailbox file.

Any ideas as to the problem? Is it Eudora or my hard drive?

Thanks for any thoughts,

Kishin

In article <jdm-7B5C55.09493124062003[at]peabody.colorado.edu>,
James Meiss <jdm[at]NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:

> Ages ago I had a crash in an old version of eudora that corrupted some
> of my mailbox files...and saw what you see.
>
> I was doing a "compact mailboxes" command, and Eudora ran out of memory
> or something in the middle. Some of my mailboxes were irretrievably
> messed up.
>
> You might try compacting the mailbox (I think Eudora 4 has the
> box at the lower left of the mailbox window that lists # of messages,
> etc...click on this).
>
> Alternatively, you might remove the ".toc" file (I think this older
> version of Eudora used separate files for its mailbox table of contents)
> with the same name as the mailbox in question. Then on next open, Eudora
> will rebuild the toc
>
> Finally, since, yes the mailbox is a text file, you might open it with a
> text processor, copy all the messages, and past them into a new text
> file. Put this file back in your Eudora folder so that Eudora will think
> it is a mailbox, and build a new toc. (Newer versions of Eudora put the
> toc in the resource fork of the mailbox, so my trick is to get you to
> discard that information).
>
> None of this may work, however, if your text is hosed like mine was.

Thanks a lot, James! These sound like some great suggestions, and I will
give them a try.

Kishin