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From: flipspam on 25 May 2006 23:58 What would the best way to correct this problem. When I click the icon for Eudora I get the following error.. Could not open the file C:/program files/Qualcomm/Eudora/LinkHistory.dat for reading Cause: Access permission denied. File may be marked as read only or locked (13) I have set up a different Eudora directory to run and get new mail, however this leaves me unable to access the history. I have tried to remove the LinkHistory.dat file, but it is blocked from changes. How can I unblock it? What is the simplest way to retrieve my old emails? Thanks! Phil
From: Han on 26 May 2006 06:51 flipspam(a)spamco.ca wrote in news:jtuc72diek1i3bak5uenr9hsev7o9avn6n@ 4ax.com: > What would the best way to correct this problem. > > When I click the icon for Eudora I get the following error.. > > Could not open the file C:/program > files/Qualcomm/Eudora/LinkHistory.dat for reading > > Cause: Access permission denied. File may be marked as read only or > locked (13) > > I have set up a different Eudora directory to run and get new mail, > however this leaves me unable to access the history. > > I have tried to remove the LinkHistory.dat file, but it is blocked > from changes. How can I unblock it? > > What is the simplest way to retrieve my old emails? > > Thanks! > > Phil > It is a simple text file, despite the windows protected .dat extension. You can open it with Notepad. Rightclick and choose open with. Ignore the warnings and choose notepad as the program to open it with. You'll get something like: 6 1148599120 6 http://ajpcell.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/00242.2006v1?ct 1147946441 1147946441 1 40 ---end http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/002094.html?tk=nl_wbxnws 1148346727 1148346727 1 40 ---end http://c.specials4geekmail.com/maaeNCwabqxSabr1vq6eaeQCLx/ 1147552285 1147552285 1 40 ---end -- Best regards Han email address is invalid
From: Han on 26 May 2006 06:53 Oops I forgot to add the last line: see below <grin>. Han <nobody(a)nospam.not> wrote in news:Xns97CF45BE0D103ikkezelf@ 199.45.49.11: > flipspam(a)spamco.ca wrote in news:jtuc72diek1i3bak5uenr9hsev7o9avn6n@ > 4ax.com: > >> What would the best way to correct this problem. >> >> When I click the icon for Eudora I get the following error.. >> >> Could not open the file C:/program >> files/Qualcomm/Eudora/LinkHistory.dat for reading >> >> Cause: Access permission denied. File may be marked as read only or >> locked (13) >> >> I have set up a different Eudora directory to run and get new mail, >> however this leaves me unable to access the history. >> >> I have tried to remove the LinkHistory.dat file, but it is blocked >> from changes. How can I unblock it? >> >> What is the simplest way to retrieve my old emails? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Phil >> > It is a simple text file, despite the windows protected .dat extension. > You can open it with Notepad. Rightclick and choose open with. Ignore > the warnings and choose notepad as the program to open it with. > > You'll get something like: > 6 1148599120 6 > > http://ajpcell.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/00242.2006v1?ct > > > 1147946441 1147946441 1 40 > ---end > > http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/002094.html?tk=nl_wbxnws > > > 1148346727 1148346727 1 40 > ---end > > http://c.specials4geekmail.com/maaeNCwabqxSabr1vq6eaeQCLx/ > > > 1147552285 1147552285 1 40 > ---end > You can rename the file or delete it (with Eudora *NOT* running), and you should be all set. -- Best regards Han email address is invalid
From: Katrina Knight on 26 May 2006 20:06 flipspam(a)spamco.ca wrote: > When I click the icon for Eudora I get the following error.. > Could not open the file C:/program > files/Qualcomm/Eudora/LinkHistory.dat for reading > Cause: Access permission denied. File may be marked as read only or > locked (13) Assuming that the file isn't actually marked read only, the most common reason for a problem of this type would be that you've recently used Eudora when logged into Windows as a different user and the permissions got messed up. The other common cause of errors of this sort is hard drive corruption causing that particular file to be unopenable by Windows. The fix for the latter is to run a disk-checking utility and let it fix whatever problems it finds. (Making a backup of important files before doing that is a good idea.) > I have tried to remove the LinkHistory.dat file, but it is blocked > from changes. How can I unblock it? That fits with either permissions problems or corruption. > What is the simplest way to retrieve my old emails? You want to keep using your new data directory but have the old mailboxes in it too? Just move the files to your new data directory. If there are new mailboxes with the same names in the new location, you'll have to either put the new mailboxes in a folder (make the folder in Eudora before moving them) or give the files new, non-conflicting names when you copy them. Each mailbox has two files - one mbx file and one toc file. You need to copy both of them, and if you rename them, they need to match each other. -- Katrina
From: flipspam on 30 May 2006 23:25
I can't rename it, can't delete it and can't move it. Access is denied in all cases. I have checked in Wintasks and see no reason to believe Eudora is running in the backgreound and preventing me from changing the file. Phil On Fri, 26 May 2006 10:53:03 GMT, Han <nobody(a)nospam.not> wrote: >Oops I forgot to add the last line: see below <grin>. > >Han <nobody(a)nospam.not> wrote in news:Xns97CF45BE0D103ikkezelf@ >199.45.49.11: > >> flipspam(a)spamco.ca wrote in news:jtuc72diek1i3bak5uenr9hsev7o9avn6n@ >> 4ax.com: >> >>> What would the best way to correct this problem. >>> >>> When I click the icon for Eudora I get the following error.. >>> >>> Could not open the file C:/program >>> files/Qualcomm/Eudora/LinkHistory.dat for reading >>> >>> Cause: Access permission denied. File may be marked as read only or >>> locked (13) >>> >>> I have set up a different Eudora directory to run and get new mail, >>> however this leaves me unable to access the history. >>> >>> I have tried to remove the LinkHistory.dat file, but it is blocked >>> from changes. How can I unblock it? >>> >>> What is the simplest way to retrieve my old emails? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Phil >>> >> It is a simple text file, despite the windows protected .dat extension. >> You can open it with Notepad. Rightclick and choose open with. Ignore >> the warnings and choose notepad as the program to open it with. >> >> You'll get something like: >> 6 1148599120 6 >> >> http://ajpcell.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/00242.2006v1?ct >> >> >> 1147946441 1147946441 1 40 >> ---end >> >> http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/002094.html?tk=nl_wbxnws >> >> >> 1148346727 1148346727 1 40 >> ---end >> >> http://c.specials4geekmail.com/maaeNCwabqxSabr1vq6eaeQCLx/ >> >> >> 1147552285 1147552285 1 40 >> ---end >> >You can rename the file or delete it (with Eudora *NOT* running), and you >should be all set. |