In article <1igo4de.3soug53x3a6aN%peter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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peter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Peter Ceresole) wrote:
> I use .toc files, and the way to rebuild them is to open the mailbox as
> usual in Eudora, in List view, and click on the middle number, the
> 'size' number, that appears in the bottom left hand corner of the
> window, in the window frame. This compacts the mailbox and rebuilds the
> .toc file, and it might also rebuild the info in the toc information in
> the resource fork.
It's my understanding that the above is true, but I just want to check.
My spouse is not always meticulous about cleaning up old email files,
and has been through multiple Macs since 1984.
As a result of this, and some fumbling attempts to clean up these files
made by me and by her, she now has a Mail folder on a Leopard MacBook in
which there are 825 messages in the primary "In" box, along with dozens
of similarly overloaded older mailboxes recovered from earlier backups
(some of them probably duplicates).
As a result we have a situation where in general there seems to be no
correlation at all between what the message line in any mailbox window
says in List view, and what message actually opens when you click that
message line.
My proposal to clean up this disarray:
1) Select the older "Use .toc files" option in Eudora settings.
2) Maybe delete all existing .toc files (if there are any), just to get
a fresh start on all mailboxes (???).
3) Rebuild each mailbox by clicking in the lower left corner.
4) Maybe, in some cases, before doing this select all the messages in a
given box and use the Transfer menu to move them to a new mailbox (the
idea being that this will cause the new mailbox to be built with a .toc
based on the actual messages in the older mailbox???).
5) Do a lot of hoping and praying --- maybe even do a ritual sacrifice
of an SE30 or PowerBook from the attic.
Any better ideas?
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