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
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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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