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From: C A Upsdell on 12 Apr 2010 12:42
On 2010-04-12 12:04, John H Meyers wrote:
> On 4/12/2010 10:16 AM, C A wrote:
>
>> You would think that Qualcomm would have offered some support in
>> creating an on-line manual
>
> There it is ...

Does not address my problem of trying to move Eudora 8 profile from one
PC to another.

> Etc. (and "Google is still your friend"

Google has not been my friend on this issue. I found MozBackup, but it
knows nothing about Eudora 8, and pretending E8 is TB failed badly: I
could export something that *looked* like it might be useful, but
importing this was DOA.

Re the Qualcomm Penelope forum: I knew about it, but there is little
going on. I'll try them, but I'm almost ready to triple my dosage of
anti-depressants.

I could probably run Eudora 5 on Windows 7 in XP Mode, but I need my
email program open all the time, and keeping an XP Mode application
loaded 24/7 will probably slow my wonderful new machine waaaaay down. Sigh.

From: John H Meyers on 12 Apr 2010 13:17
On 4/12/2010 11:42 AM, C A wrote:

> Does not address my problem of trying to move Eudora 8 profile from one
> PC to another.

"Eudora 8 profile" == "Thunderbird profile"
(both programs, by default, will use the same one,
just to show how friendly and compatible they are,
and I have been alternating between the two programs
even this morning, posting newsgroup messages from each one).

> Google has not been my friend on this issue.

Well, I chatted Google up some while back,
to get all the info in the following:
http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/showthread.php?t=14443

> I could probably run Eudora 5 on Windows 7 in XP Mode

Many report running classic Eudora on Windows 7, as it is,
but heed this announcement (which includes migration info XP -> 7)
http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/announcement.php?a=13

Why not also update v5 to v7.1 at the same time?

If the sight of cheerier icons is hard on the eyes,
v6 and v7 even come with plugins
to restore the old depressing v5 icons,
after which you might have a hard time even noticing that it was updated,
except for the fixes, improvements, better crash resistance,
more unlimited support for all ISPs and servers, ...

> But I need my email program open all the time

Would keeping Thunderbird open all the time
be less problem than keeping Eudora open all the time?

--

From: C A Upsdell on 12 Apr 2010 14:49
On 2010-04-12 13:17, John H Meyers wrote:
> On 4/12/2010 11:42 AM, C A wrote:
>
>> Does not address my problem of trying to move Eudora 8 profile from one
>> PC to another.
>
> "Eudora 8 profile" == "Thunderbird profile"
> (both programs, by default, will use the same one,
> just to show how friendly and compatible they are,
> and I have been alternating between the two programs
> even this morning, posting newsgroup messages from each one).

It is really *not* so simple. MozBackup does not even *list* E8 as a
program whose profile it will save. With a dual TB / E8 install on my
1st PC, which appear to share the same profile, I could use MozBackup to
save TB's profile: but when I took the saved file to my 2nd PC,
MozBackup did not list E8, so MozBackup could not restore the saved file
to E8.

I unzipped the saved file manually instead, then manually copied all the
unzipped directories and files to the E8 profile directory on the 2nd
PC: but this must not be a correct procedure, because E8 on the 2nd PC
did not then use the profile.

Maybe what I'll have to do is install TB *as well* on the 2nd PC (E8 is
already installed), then use MozBackup to restore the saved file to *TB*
on that PC, and then hope that this dual installation will work: and if
it does work, I could then try uninstalling TB, hoping that everything
needed by E8 will be kept when TB is uninstalled.

But God!!! It should not be so hard, even if this perverse procedure
works!!!

>> Google has not been my friend on this issue.
>
> Well, I chatted Google up some while back,
> to get all the info in the following:
> http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/showthread.php?t=14443

I looked that up and found nothing useful. There was a link to a FAQ on
how to move profiles on the *same* PC, but it did not address moving
profiles to a different PC, or more especially to a different PC with a
different version of Windows.

>> I could probably run Eudora 5 on Windows 7 in XP Mode
>> But I need my email program open all the time
>
> Would keeping Thunderbird open all the time
> be less problem than keeping Eudora open all the time?

If I have to use XP Mode, yes: because, then, significant PC resources
will be tied up running the virtual copy of XP which this mode entails.



From: Ajo Wissink on 12 Apr 2010 15:51
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:49:12 -0400, C A Upsdell
<cupsdell(a)nospam.nospam> wrote:

>On 2010-04-12 13:17, John H Meyers wrote:

>> Would keeping Thunderbird open all the time
>> be less problem than keeping Eudora open all the time?
>
>If I have to use XP Mode, yes: because, then, significant PC resources
>will be tied up running the virtual copy of XP which this mode entails.

Why would you want to run Eudora in XP mode? It runs fine in Windows
7, provided that you don't try to put your data in Program Files.
From: C A Upsdell on 12 Apr 2010 17:33
On 2010-04-12 15:51, Ajo Wissink wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:49:12 -0400, C A Upsdell
> <cupsdell(a)nospam.nospam> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-04-12 13:17, John H Meyers wrote:
>
>>> Would keeping Thunderbird open all the time
>>> be less problem than keeping Eudora open all the time?
>>
>> If I have to use XP Mode, yes: because, then, significant PC resources
>> will be tied up running the virtual copy of XP which this mode entails.
>
> Why would you want to run Eudora in XP mode? It runs fine in Windows
> 7, provided that you don't try to put your data in Program Files.

What you missed, I think, is that I am migrating from Eudora 5, an old,
old program, not Eudora 7.

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