APOLOGIES FOR LONG POST...
My set-up : Eudora 6.1.1 paid mode, switching between iMac on 9.2.2 and PB G4 on 10.4.11, and moving the complete Eudora folder accordingly from one to the other. I copy the Eudora folder in the Classic System Folder but I use 6.1.1 directly on 10.4.11, not on Classic of the G4, since it works on both MacOS 9 and 10.
My attachment folder is always the desktop folder, but I file all attachments subsequently in their specific folders, and I restore the links occasionally when they are broken.
Problem : in one of my Mail folders (in fact a sub-sub-sub-subfolder) all mails which have attachments, either genuine documents on the HD or graphics and the like in the Parts Folder, have lost their links to them, with the icons broken. All other same level subfolders in the same folder are OK, but for the occasional lost link due to the change of volume iMac/G4, which I know how to fix and have to fix from time to time.
Findings :
1. opening the blah-blah-blah of any problem message, I looked into the statement of the type : ...<img src="x-eudora-file: P6C01B87D"... and searched for the corresponding document on the HD using Sherlock on 9.2.2 or Spotlight on 10.4.11, I always find these as aliases in folders of the Spool Folder.
2. when I check the aliases using Command-I and Command-R, they always apparently point to the correct files but, for some reason, the link is cut somewhere else in an invisible manner. If I try to re-select the proper file using "New Original" in Command-I, it makes no difference in the display of the path to the original, nor in the problem.
3. I have reproduced a similar behaviour with a working folder "Folder Name" by simply removing the "Folder Name.toc" file from the mail folder and letting Eudora recreate it at launch. My experience is that it does it without asking when it does not find the .toc file.
In that situation, the .toc appears reconstructed and all files restored correctly except some attributes, I noticed for instance that the message labels are lost, and the attachments links are all broken.
I could send some files if needed.
Is there a fix ?
Thank you for any kind of feedback and best regards.
Eagletro4
