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Installing Eudora 6.2.4 over old version

May 26, 2007 3:22AM PDT

I have a very old version of Eudora Light (3.1.3), and though I usually used to read my mail first at my ISP (Mindspring) server, I also used Eudora for various purposes. Now that I have gone from OS 9.2.2 to OS X, I need a newer Eudora.

I downloaded the .dmg file for Eudora 6.2.4 and tried to install it on my computer. There was a warning to do a "first-time" install if I had another version of an OS X Eudora on my computer but since mine was older than that, I assumed that I'd be able to do an upgrade install and automatically preserve my old settings.

No go. I get to the point where there should be an option to choose my old Eudora Light Folder, but it's greyed out. I don't know what the problem is, but what should I do instead? And how else to import my settings, address book and such if I have to pretend never to have had Eudora at all?

One other question: I was presented with the question of whether I wanted Eudora to be my default email program. I wasn't sure what that meant, in practical terms, so I clicked on the little question mark that should have gotten me to the Eudora intelligence database. It turned up an error page. Then I tried doing a search in Eudora's help programs and got no results there. If there is an easy explanation, I'd like to learn more about this.

Sorry to be such a nuisance. Who could have guessed that I'd stumble so often by just because I've changed my OS?

Thanks so much, in advance, for anything you can offer to this slightly fuzzy head (sleep-deprived, owing to getting up at night with grandchildren, an eight-hour train trip).

jenny

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Eudora Light (3.1.3)
May 26, 2007 3:55AM PDT

Your original Eudora program runs under OS 9.x.x, as you know, and would have continued to run as a Classic application had you left OS 9 o the drive.
I think you removed it when you installed OS X, correct me if I'm wrong.

So, the new version of Eudora runs in OS X and does not know enough to recognize the old version of itself.
Might be a way around this problem.
If I was incorrect, and you still have OS 9 on that machine, fire it up and launch Eudora (old).
Export your contacts, and whatever else it allows you to export, and save them somewhere you can get them in OS X.
Quit Classic and launch Eudora (new). Try to import your contacts, and anything else it will let you, and see how that goes.
It is a big jump from Eudora Light V3 to Eudora v6.2 and you may find that there was not an upgrade path between them, even before the added complication of OS X.

Setting Eudora as your default Email program means that whenever you click on a "mail me" link in a web page, Eudora will be the email program that will launch.
The Apple MAIL program is quite a good email client.

Hope this helps a little

P

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I'll try it
May 27, 2007 12:06AM PDT

Thanks again, P.

No, I didn't remove OS 9 from my computer, and the old Eudora Folder and Eudora Stuff (and so on) is all still on the hard drive. Since I can't finish the installation process of the new Eudora, I shall install it in a new folder as though I had never had Eudora, right?

But you say to export the old data to someplace where OS X can gain access to it. Any suggestions? I imported my old Netscape stuff to Safari and then Firefox, but I don't know how it's done with an email program (or any other program, for that matter). Sorry to be so ignorant, but there you have it. Once I learn it, it'll be mine for life, but right now there's a gap in my knowledge base that makes your indubitably clear instructions not do-able.

I shall do the rest of the job, however, and hope to do the import soon thereafter. And thanks so much for the truly transparent explanation about "default" email programs. Isn't it odd that I couldn't get that from Eudora? Surely, an established program like that shouldn't be returning "couldn't be found" for their own links and "no items found" for a search on "default."

Sorry! I must have forgotten to butter my toast this morning. Have a lovely holiday weekend, all.

jenny

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Your mailbox is over quota
May 26, 2007 3:58AM PDT

Instructions for the DVD were returned from Mindspring.

Guess it could be related to your Eudora problem.

P

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Excuse me?
May 27, 2007 12:15AM PDT

P,

I am pleased that you are so attentive, but I really don't understand. Whoever posted a message about a mailbox being over quota, 'twasn't I. The rest of the message is equally puzzling, therefore. It has elements pertaining to messages I've posted, but I just can't relate that to an over-stuffed mailbox.

If this truly is about some issue I've raised, I guess I need further clarity; if not, I hope that the person who did post the message about an over-quota mailbox will eventually get your reply.

Many thanks, regardless. I hope you are enjoying your weekend.

jenny

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Over Quota
May 27, 2007 3:10AM PDT

I sent you the PDF manual for replacing the DVD player.

The email was rejected.

Reason given was "Over quota mailbox"

Enjoy the holiday

P

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Very strange!
May 27, 2007 3:25AM PDT

I get what you are saying, but I've still got 40 percent of my server space unused. Even that is low for me, but with my sojourn in Virginia and various other distractions, it's understandable. A PDF file shouldn't put it over the top.

Well, thanks for trying. I shall have to just hope that my squinty look at the OWC video and my notes on it will be sufficient. It doesn't look that bad, after all, but I'll have to leave some time to do it.

You have been very kind indeed. Thanks so much again.

jenny

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The real Skinny
May 26, 2007 4:02AM PDT

Bob shamed me seeing what else could be done.

Check out this page. It tells you what to move from OS 9 and where to put it in OS X to enable Eudora to function correctly, without any loss of data

http://eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1655hq.html


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Hope you can bear with me
May 27, 2007 3:44AM PDT

Thanks so much for this. I just want to get straight the order of things. Do I install the new Eudora as though I had never had Eudora before and then put the old Eudora Folder into my Documents? Or do I try to install Eudora as a new thing after I've moved the old Eudora Folder? Do I put the old Eudora into Documents and then identify that as the place I want to put the new Eudora? I tried choosing the Eudora Folder in Documents after trying to install 4.2 as an update to 3.1.3, just now, and the update button still was grey.

By the way, is Applications the place where I want to put the new Eudora? Or someplace else? Obviously, the old folder is in Documents now.

Clearly, I'm doing something wrong, either in the order of steps or in the choices I'm making. You have been so patient. Can you just give me this one last boost? Sorry to be so muddled.

Thanks,

jenny

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I think yo should install Eudora
May 27, 2007 9:54AM PDT

as a "first time" install, but before you do that, move that Eudora folder out of the Documents folder. Just in case the new install decides to make a new one for you and overwrite the old one.

Once installed into the Applications folder, fire it up, take a look around and shut it down.
Hopefully you will now find a Eudora folder in the documents folder. Rename it to Eudora old and drag it onto the desktop.
Drag the one from OS 9 into the documents folder and fire up Eudora again. If there is any justice in this world, and you had your head held at the right angle, you "should" have your email back, just like it was.

Do tell

P

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Alakazam, it's magic!
May 28, 2007 8:58AM PDT

Dear P,

You did it again! Your instructions were clear and to the point, and it seems that I am now in business with Eudora 6. Thank you (again) so much. Now if I could only figure out why all my text is so tiny! It's easy enough to increase its size, but every time I open anything? Really! (I think it may be something to do with "improvements" Mindspring/Earthlink made a while back, but it could be some setting I inadvertently changed.)

Oh, well, not a major problem. Thanks again.

Best,

jenny

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(NT) Gotta love it when a plan comes together! You're Welcome.
May 28, 2007 11:28PM PDT