I just had to empty the hard drive and reload everything. I saved my Eudora mailboxes. I thought I had experimented with this before and found it was easy to replace a full mailbox. However, when I did what I thought was right, using an unimportant one, I lost the contents. Afraid to try another one. Some are pretty full and I don't relish the idea of reading each as a long long Wordpad text, although I have saved them that way, in case. Also, how do I configure Eudora or my dial-up info to get back to where I was-- When I connected to my ISP, Eudora automatically opened and downloaded mail. Not doing that now. Thanks. Sylvia G.

At 02:41 AM 04/01/2000, Sylvia Gould wrote: *************START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************* I just had to empty the hard drive and reload everything. I saved my Eudora mailboxes. I thought I had experimented with this before and found it was easy to replace a full mailbox. However, when I did what I thought was right, using an unimportant one, I lost the contents. Afraid to try another one. Some are pretty full and I don't relish the idea of reading each as a long long Wordpad text, although I have saved them that way, in case. Also, how do I configure Eudora or my dial-up info to get back to where I was-- When I connected to my ISP, Eudora automatically opened and downloaded mail. Not doing that now. Thanks. Sylvia G. **************END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************** Sylvia, exactly which files did you save for your mailboxes? If you made a Mailbox NOT in a Folder, that Mailbox is represented in the Eudora main directory as a .toc and a .mbx file. In other words, if you made a Mailbox named "Personal", there will be two files in Eudora, Personal.toc and Personal.mbx. If, however, you made a "Folder", say "Personal", and in it you made several Mailboxes, say "Friends", "Quilting", and "Genealogy", there will be a sub-directory under Eudora called "Personal". In that sub-directory, there will be .toc and .mbx files for "Friends", "Quilting", and "Genealogy". You would have to back up all the .toc and .mbx files in the "main" directory, AND in the subdirectories. Then, when restoring, you would have to copy those files back into the appropriate places, either in the "main" directory, or in the appropriate sub-directories. How did you back up? With a ZIP program? Copying the individual files to a ZIP disk, CD, etc.? The saved files have to be placed back into Eudora in exactly the same place they were on the original hard drive. I use a program called TaskZip and have it configured to backup .toc and .mbx files in Eudora AND in ALL subdirectories. If I have to restore the files, I use WinZip and tell it to put the files back in the appropriate directories and subdirectories. I know this may be confusing, but just let me know exactly how you backed up the files and I can help. Awaiting your reply, SgtGeorge George W. Durman Knoxville, TN EUDORA-MAIL Listowner Archives of previous EUDORA-MAIL posts are located at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/EUDORA-MAIL-L/ (Copy and paste the above URL exactly as above. The address is "case-sensitive". If you have never used the Archives before, you will have to establish a UserName and Password. You will need only one User- Name and Password for all of Rootsweb, regardless of which Archives you are searching.)