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Old December 28th 19, 10:53 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default merging old and new Eudora and Thunderbird files (Windows 7)

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Two friends have suffered hardware failures, and in both cases have
started anew, with the same software.

Eudora user: hard drive fail; managed to restore OS etc. from image (to
new drive), and get her going again with Eudora. Will be same version
(development stopped years ago). I have subsequently managed to recover
_I think_ most of Eudora folder from the old drive.

Thunderbird user: complete computer fail (dead behaviour). I don't think
it's the HD, so anticipate being able to recover TB
folders/profiles/whatever from it (I haven't visited her yet). Have got
her going (remotely!) on replacement (W7) computer; latest TB
downloaded, but I _think_ it's not very different (I think she had it
set to autoupdate; failure was recent).

Want to restore old emails from before their failures:
o without losing any new emails (i. e. "merge" old and new)
o with access to files only - can't _run_ anything on them I think): i.
e. it _isn't_ like exporting from a running machine to a new one.

Any pointers for either software?

Thanks.


I don't know a thing about this, whether it'll work or not. I
would suggest backing up all materials before attempting anything fancy.

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US...xporttools-ng/

*******

For the Eudora, that's probably the old one, not the EudoraOSE which
is Thunderbird in disguise. I find this discouraging statement.

http://qwerky.50webs.com/eudorarescue/

"Eudora maintains its message database in mailbox (*.mbx)
files which are not quite standard mbox files."

(That tool can be used as part of preparing Eudora datafill
for use in Thunderbird somehow.)

So then the question becomes, is there a way to say, set up
a second copy of Eudora (a "portable" one), and then do a COM
import or something ? [Outlook Express used to pull emails
one at a time using COM, and it was one form of email
importation on Windows computers. I suppose discrete .eml
files would be the closest equivalent today.]

Tools which use *******ized file formats for stuff,
aren't going to make merging all that easy.

It would have been better, to stop pulling mail when
things broke, setting up a new setup with the old
files loaded, and *then* pulling new mail. For example,
disconnecting the network cable while commissioning the
replacement setup, would prevent any overly aggressive
mail tools from contacting anyone.

Paul
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