Hi! Forgive me for posting this to the list as it really is not a "Rootsweb question"... On Sunday my computer started to do "funny things" I immediately backed up my programs and have been able to restore everything EXCEPT my Eudora 5.0 Email ("free version") which I have been using for the past 12-14 months. At this point I have lost all contact names and address, attachment's of information for my Campobello pages which have been donated for the site etc. I am hoping someone may be able to restore this file. I put my Eudora on a zip disk and "saved it". I restored and took 30 minutes to reload and I thought great this is going to work. BUT, when we went to "open" it the "New" email opens and there is no sign of my "old" file folders etc. Does anyone have any suggestions as to "how" I can possibly get this program back?? Any suggestions at this point GREATLY appreciated! Thanks!! Heather Heather Leighton Waddingham Campobello Parish Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcampob/ My England and Canadian Roots containing over 8400 names http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=CDNROOTS email: hwaddingham@yahoo.com

Heather and Carmen, I've addressed this reply to the both of you for you both had Eudora address and mailbox file/folder questions. I just returned from a 3 week vacation and just now getting back into these newsgroups. Heather's message: >>I put my Eudora on a zip disk and "saved it". I restored and took 30 minutes to reload and I thought great this is going to work. BUT, when we went to "open" it the "New" email opens and there is no sign of my "old" file folders etc.<< Carmen's message: >>Are there some Eudora users that can tell me how to transfer files (mailboxes and address book) from my old computer to my new computer? << Heather, if you saved and restored all of Eudora from the zip disk them your "old" address and mailboxes files should be there. >>I restored and took 30 minutes to reload.. << But ..... if in this statement reload means reinstalled and you did this **after** restoring from the zip disk, then the reinstalling overwrote your old address and mailbox folders and files with brand new ones. I would have first reinstalled Eudora then copied the old address and mailbox folders and files from the zip disk into the program. Here are the files needed for addresses and mailboxes: 1. Addresses: Found in the folder Eudora: NNdbase.toc NNdbase.txt If you have created addresses books, they will be located in the folder called: Nickname Within this folder are the created address books/lists with the files names ending with: *.toc and *.txt. You need both these files. Some of mine are called: maillist.toc maillist.txt friends.toc friends.txt windham volunteers.toc windham volunteers.txt You need to copy the whole Nickname folder with contents to Eudora. 2. Mailboxes: mailboxes also come in 2 files with extensions *.mbx and *.toc. You need both these files for each mailbox. The In, Out, Trash and other mailboxes **not** created in specific folders are located in the root folder of Eudora and are called: in.mbx in.toc out.mbx out.toc trash.mbx trash.toc etc.... If you have set up a folder for specific mailboxes then you need that folder with the mailbox files within it. For example I have set up a Mail List folder called: Mail Lists. Within this folder I have such mailboxes as: RootsWeb Help CT GenConnecticut CT Mansfield CT Middle CT NewLond-L CT TollandCO CT WindhamCO MA GenMassachusetts MA Plymouth MA Essex-L so on and so forth. Eudora named the mail list folder, Maillist.fol, and the mailbox files within the folder as: CT GenConnecticut.mbx CT GenConnecticut.toc CT Middle.mbx CT Middle.toc so on and so forth. Sooooo.... ladies, you needed to manually copy the above files and folder types into your new Eudora setup. Good Luck! --- Susan SGTAYLOR1@att.net My Genealogy Website - sgt http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ ----------------------------------------------- USGW Mansfield, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/mansfield.html USGW New London, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/newlondon.html USGW Norwich, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/norwich.html USGW Windham, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/windham.html USGW Coordinator Plymouth Co., MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~maplymou/ USGW Plymouth, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ ********************************************************* At 08:27 AM 9/19/01 -0700, Heather Leighton Waddingham wrote: >Hi! > >Forgive me for posting this to the list as it really is not a "Rootsweb >question"... > >On Sunday my computer started to do "funny things" I immediately backed up >my programs and have been able to restore everything EXCEPT my Eudora 5.0 >Email ("free version") which I have been using for the past 12-14 months. >At this point I have lost all contact names and address, attachment's of >information for my Campobello pages which have been donated for the site >etc. I am hoping someone may be able to restore this file. > >I put my Eudora on a zip disk and "saved it". I restored and took 30 >minutes to reload and I thought great this is going to work. BUT, when we >went to "open" it the "New" email opens and there is no sign of my "old" >file folders etc. > >Does anyone have any suggestions as to "how" I can possibly get this >program back?? > >Any suggestions at this point GREATLY appreciated! > >Thanks!! > >Heather > > >Heather Leighton Waddingham >Campobello Parish Coordinator >http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcampob/ >My England and Canadian Roots containing over 8400 names >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=CDNROOTS >email: hwaddingham@yahoo.com At 09:54 AM 8/26/01 -0700, you wrote: >Hi, > >Are there some Eudora users that can tell me how to transfer files >(mailboxes and address book) from my old computer to my new >computer? Eurdora 5.0 is on my old computer; 5.1 is on my new >computer----the basic free program. I can't seem to find anything within >the Euroda folder in my file structure that looks like it would be either >mailboxes or address book. > >Carmen Finley >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp