Re: OS X and Sluggish Eudora performance

Glenn - My group of users hasn't had sluggish Eudora performance with
OS 10.3, but we are using Eudora 6.1, which makes a big difference.
There are a number of things that can slow down Eudora performance,
or worse yet cause corruptions. Here are my "housekeeping notes"
I've given people who were having trouble...I also have instructions
re. rebuilding/recovering Inbox if needed.
- Marilyn

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LIFE WITH EUDORA

Every time Eudora opens a mail account, it opens Inbox, Outbox and
Trash. (You should never rename these files, by the way--or rather,
there must ALWAYS be an Inbox, Outbox and Trash file in each Eudora
Folder.)

This means there is a limit to how large these files can get before
you lose efficiency and increase the chance of corrupting the files.

Almost always the Inbox corruption is due to an overly large Inbox.
Optimally your Inbox or Outbox should not exceed 2-3 MB (this does
NOT include attachments, which are kept in another folder entirely).
In MacOS X Eudora, there is a much more generous allowance, but it's
still a good idea to keep the size reasonable (Eudora works more
quickly, among other rewards).

The easy way around this is to set up an archival system. For some
people this means celebrating every New Year's and every 4th of July
by archiving the prior six months of email in Inbox and Outbox.
Others with heavy email loads may choose to archive every month. And
others not only archive, but set up many filters, especially for
critical email, which lessens the load for Inbox (you can set filters
for email sent out as well).

Of course you should be doing backups. Duplicate the entire Eudora
Folder when you do a backup. (MacOS 9 and X users--make your life
easier and safer, and keep your Eudora Folders inside User:Documents
folder! Then you can back up your critical files more quickly.)

For MacOS X AND OS 9 users - upgrade to the most recent Eudora
release, 6.1, which is much more stable and has great Junk filters.
And don't activate that old .toc option unless you're exporting to
Windows Eudora; it seems to slow down performance in Eudora 6.1.

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>Hi All,
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>I've beenout of the loop for a while and was wondering if there have
>been discussions on sluggish Eudora performance and OS X.
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>Glenn L Robertson | African American Studies
>Computer Resource Specialist II | 670 Barrows Hall #2572
>grobtson@berkeley.edu | University of California, Berkeley
>Phone:(510) 642-3899 | Berkeley, CA 94720-2572
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