On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 11:05:37 -0700 (PDT), Mark <
mmxjr13@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:
I'm wondering if I could synchronise it automatically using Dropbox. I only have Dropvox Basic so I can't use their 'Smart Sync' tool. I'm thinking I could relocate my Eudora Data folder from C:\users\name\appdata\roaming to my dropbox folder and
change the Eudora shortcut to this new location. I'd also move the attachments folder to Dropbox.
Would this be a workable solution or have I missed something?
Interference concerns... Many of these "cloud" "backup" systems rely upon copy-on-change (and play hob with things like databases that do
constant open/modify/close of data/index files -- including sometimes
blocking the actual application from getting to its own data!).
Eudora first downloads emails to a spool directory, then processes the downloaded spool before copying to MBX files AND updating the associated
TOC file, and deleting the spool file. That's three files that are
undergoing mixed read/write cycles that could be interrupted if the cloud storage locks any file while doing its copy.
Cloud backup works best for static files -- or apps that open/read the entire file, close it... Later open/(over)write/close the entire file at
once.
This is part of what the "leave mail on server" option is meant for -- to allow multiple applications to fetch messages, usually with one
application given priority for when to delete the server copy (or by
age...)
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