I HAVE BEEN USING EUDORA FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS WITH MUCH SUCCESS.Presumably all your other mailboxes are OK and you can see and read the messages in them?
WITHIN LAST WEEK I CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WHENEVER EUDORA OPENS...
could not read from file. c:\eudora\data\in.mbx cause: file already exists (17)
THE RESULT IS THAT WHEN EUDORA GOES OUT TO THE SERVER TO RETRIVE MAIL THE MAIL IT RETRIEVES IS NOT PLACED IN THE IN BOX. SO I DO NOT GET TO SEE ANY NEW EMAIL MESSAGES.
CAN ANYONE HELP ? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
On Wednesday, 14 July 2021 at 05:19:19 UTC+1, MJ FEIN wrote:
I HAVE BEEN USING EUDORA FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS WITH MUCH SUCCESS.
WITHIN LAST WEEK I CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WHENEVER EUDORA OPENS...
could not read from file. c:\eudora\data\in.mbx cause: file already exists (17)
THE RESULT IS THAT WHEN EUDORA GOES OUT TO THE SERVER TO RETRIVE MAIL THE MAIL IT RETRIEVES IS NOT PLACED IN THE IN BOX. SO I DO NOT GET TO SEE ANY NEW EMAIL MESSAGES.
CAN ANYONE HELP ? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.Presumably all your other mailboxes are OK and you can see and read the messages in them?
If you can see the inbox and read any messages already in it, I would try moving them all temporarily to another mailbox.
Then (with Eudora closed of course) go to the c:\eudora\data folder using Windows Explorer, and delete the two files called in.mbx and in.toc and when you've done that run Eudora again. The files should be recreated, and hopefully will then be OK.
You can then move the messages you temporarily moved out of the inbox back into it if you want.
HTH. Cheers, Dave.
On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 7:17:53 AM UTC-4, dav...@sky.com wrote:in.mbx will just contain emails from today forward. If I want to move the messages from the renamed in.mbx file, how do I do that? And do I need to create a new in.toc file after I move the messages in or does Eudora build a new in.toc automatically?
On Wednesday, 14 July 2021 at 05:19:19 UTC+1, MJ FEIN wrote:
I HAVE BEEN USING EUDORA FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS WITH MUCH SUCCESS.
WITHIN LAST WEEK I CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WHENEVER EUDORA OPENS...
could not read from file. c:\eudora\data\in.mbx cause: file already exists (17)
THE RESULT IS THAT WHEN EUDORA GOES OUT TO THE SERVER TO RETRIVE MAIL THE MAIL IT RETRIEVES IS NOT PLACED IN THE IN BOX. SO I DO NOT GET TO SEE ANY NEW EMAIL MESSAGES.
Thank you Dave. Yes my other mailboxes are all fine. So I assume, with Eudora closed, I can rename the in.mbx and the in.toc files rather than delete them. Then I can run Eudora and it will create a new in.mbx file and a new in.toc file. I assume theCAN ANYONE HELP ? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.Presumably all your other mailboxes are OK and you can see and read the messages in them?
If you can see the inbox and read any messages already in it, I would try moving them all temporarily to another mailbox.
Then (with Eudora closed of course) go to the c:\eudora\data folder using Windows Explorer, and delete the two files called in.mbx and in.toc and when you've done that run Eudora again. The files should be recreated, and hopefully will then be OK.
You can then move the messages you temporarily moved out of the inbox back into it if you want.
HTH. Cheers, Dave.
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