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From: John H Meyers on 6 Nov 2009 17:07 On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:23:51 -0600, Clueless wrote: > I do have D: and when I installed Eudora I indicated the D:\mail > folder as location for mail. >>> Where do I keep the data? >> Anywhere _except_ under where program files normally go. > I have tried everywhere, Documents and settings, > C:\ProgramData, C:\ and so on. > Nothing works Go to Eudora's program files folder and rename Eudora.ini, in that folder only, to EudoraOLD.ini Does it "work" now? This could also be done by "Lizzie," who was just relating the same issue (and in whose thread may be found a complete explanation), though in her case, we suggested an opportunity to clean up the entire programs folder, rather than just "hide" this one file. --
From: Clueless on 7 Nov 2009 04:52 On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:07:13 -0600, "John H Meyers" <jhmeyers(a)nomail.invalid> wrote: >Go to Eudora's program files folder >and rename Eudora.ini, in that folder only, to EudoraOLD.ini > >Does it "work" now? It it did not. I was having XP Pro in the C: partition and the mail data in D:\Mail After installing Win7 in C:\ I installed Eudora as usual and when the installed asked about locating the data files I pointed to the D:\Mail folder. It XP this worked ok but not in Win7 I put copies of the Mail folder every conceivable place still it refused to budge. Finally a spark - I renamed D:\Mail to D:\Eudora and bingo! all was well. It seems Win7 is biased against the folder name - perhaps mail is a reserved word :-( Thanks for trying to help me -- ClueLess
From: John H Meyers on 7 Nov 2009 05:10 On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:52:26 -0600: > I was having XP Pro in the C: partition and the mail data in D:\Mail > After installing Win7 in C:\ I installed Eudora as usual and when the > installed asked about locating the data files I pointed to the D:\Mail > folder. It XP this worked ok but not in Win7 Could the "permissions" set in XP for D:\Mail no longer be valid after installing Win7 over XP? > Finally a spark - I renamed D:\Mail to D:\Eudora and bingo! > all was well. Surely it's not just a renaming of an existing folder -- Eudora would not suspect to even look for a folder it had never before heard of? > It seems Win7 is biased against the folder name - perhaps mail is a > reserved word :-( A mystery at both your end and mine :) But "all's well that ends well" (or "all's well that ends" :) --
From: Ardent on 9 Nov 2009 20:20
On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:10:29 -0600, "John H Meyers" <jhmeyers(a)nomail.invalid> wrote: >Could the "permissions" set in XP for D:\Mail >no longer be valid after installing Win7 over XP? Windows 7 was a clean install and so no permissions were involved - in any case in both XP and win7 it was as Administrator that I was working with. >Surely it's not just a renaming of an existing folder -- Eudora >would not suspect to even look for a folder it had never before heard of? How can Eudora locate a data folder on its own? After renaming D:\Mail to D:\Eudora I changed propertins of Eudora link to reflect data location as D:\Eudora like this "C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora" D:\Eudora >A mystery at both your end and mine :) Yes, I have met several instances of such mysteries that have defied all logic but still worked out :-) >But "all's well that ends well" >(or "all's well that ends" :) Many many thanks for your several responses trying to help me. |