migrating eudora 6.2.4 (Tiger) to new machine with SnowLeopard
Dave
machine with Tiger 10.4.6. This weekend, I am going to migrate to a
new Intel mac with snow leopard. I am nervous about it going
correctly for Eudora as it is my primary application of communication.
Is there anything I should watch out for or do before/while I am using
the Migration Assistant?
Do you recommend a migration of the eurdora data and then re-
installation of a new version downloaded from the eudora site? [will I
b e able to "register" this with my current paid registration number].
Sorry for the newbie questions, but none of this was an issue with the
upgrade from OS9 to Tiger.
The Eudora site says that alert sounds didn't work in Leopard. Is
that true also for SnowLeopard?
Guenther Fischer
<a6bfd4bc-a0fc-4cba...@z35g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
Dave <santabar...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is definitely true with Snow Leopard. You will have no other
problem with Eudora, may be some Fonts may refuse to show up correct,
but that is a Font problem and not an Eudora problem.
Eudora works well under all Snow Leopard versions so far, as it did
under all Leopard versions.
Sander Tekelenburg
<a6bfd4bc-a0fc-4cba...@z35g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
Dave <santabar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a paid version of Eudora 6.2.4 currently running on a PPC
> machine with Tiger 10.4.6. This weekend, I am going to migrate to a
> new Intel mac with snow leopard. I am nervous about it going
> correctly for Eudora as it is my primary application of communication.
All it takes is to copy over /Applications/Eudora and ~/Documents/Eudora
Folder (which, if you use Migration Assistent, will be done for you).
[...]
> Do you recommend a migration of the eurdora data and then re-
> installation of a new version downloaded from the eudora site?
No.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!"
PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!"
Steve Maser
> I have a paid version of Eudora 6.2.4 currently running on a PPC
> machine with Tiger 10.4.6. This weekend, I am going to migrate to a
> new Intel mac with snow leopard. I am nervous about it going
> correctly for Eudora as it is my primary application of communication.
If you are moving from 10.4, there were two issues I remember being
problems with *10.5* (that are probably still issues with 10.6.
This is from their bulletin board:
Notice to OS X 10.5 'Leopard' users:
In order for Macintosh Eudora to work well under OS X 10.5.x 'Leopard',
you need to turn off the use of specific sounds in Eudora. These are
the sounds Eudora plays when you get new mail or Eudora needs your
attention, or are played by Filters. The sounds that are problematic
are the ones that contain 'Eudora' in their name as they were created
using a sound synthesizer that Leopard does not support. To disable or
change the sounds used in Eudora, do the following:
Turn off or change the 'New Mail' and "Attention" sounds:
- Open Eudora->Preferences and select the 'Getting Attention' panel
- In the 'Sounds' section, for both 'New mail sound' and 'Attention
sound', select a sound OTHER than one that has 'Eudora' in its name
(ie. NOT 'Eudora Attention', 'Eudora New Mail' nor 'Eudora Short
Warning')
- Click OK to the close the Preferences
Turn off sounds triggered by filters:
- Open Window->Filters
- Look through all your filters for filters that have a 'Play Sound'
action.
- Select a sound that does NOT have 'Eudora' in its name, or disable
sounds all together by selecting 'None' from the action popup menu.
I *thought* there was one other thing to do to make things work in
10.5, but I'm blanking on it.
- Steve
Darrell Greenwood
> I have a paid version of Eudora 6.2.4 currently running on a PPC
> machine with Tiger 10.4.6. This weekend, I am going to migrate to a
> new Intel mac with snow leopard. I am nervous about it going
> correctly for Eudora as it is my primary application of communication.
I switched from an PPC iBook G4 to a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard a
couple of weeks ago.
Because I had a *lot* of cruft from trying various apps over the years
I decided against using Migration Assistant, choosing instead to move
apps as I found I wanted them.
Eudora was the first I moved. I simply moved the Eudora Folder and
Eudora Application Folder over and everything worked. (The MacBook
asked if I wished to download Rosetta* on the first run, I did, and it
did.)
Cheers,
Darrell
*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(binary_translation_software)>
Darrell Greenwood
> I have a paid version of Eudora 6.2.4 currently running on a PPC
> machine with Tiger 10.4.6. This weekend, I am going to migrate to a
> new Intel mac with snow leopard. I am nervous about it going
> correctly for Eudora as it is my primary application of communication.
I switched from an PPC iBook G4 to a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard a
Anders Eklöf
You've got the answers you needed - almost. If you have the registration
number you can register. The registration is personal, not locked to a
specific computer.
However, as Eudora will never be updated, and has its quirks, you may
consider - regardless of system version - to do as I did about 1.5 years
ago - migrate to Mail. I switched after at least 18 years of Eudora, and
I never looked back.
However, I decided not import my old mailboxes, just keep them for
reference, and also keep Eudora on the Mac to be able to read them. And
I turned off all automatic checking in Eudora.
--
I recommend Macs to my friends, and Windows machines
to those whom I don't mind billing by the hour
Jim Gibson
<ma...@umich.edu> wrote:
> In article
> <a6bfd4bc-a0fc-4cba...@z35g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
> Dave <santabar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a paid version of Eudora 6.2.4 currently running on a PPC
> > machine with Tiger 10.4.6. This weekend, I am going to migrate to a
> > new Intel mac with snow leopard. I am nervous about it going
> > correctly for Eudora as it is my primary application of communication.
>
> If you are moving from 10.4, there were two issues I remember being
> problems with *10.5* (that are probably still issues with 10.6.
>
> This is from their bulletin board:
[sound problem]
> I *thought* there was one other thing to do to make things work in
> 10.5, but I'm blanking on it.
IIRC it was something to do with separate TOC files for mailboxes. I
have 'Use old-style ".toc" files' checked in Miscellaneous Settings and
never had any trouble.
--
Jim Gibson
Peter Ceresole
> Turn off or change the 'New Mail' and "Attention" sounds:
> - Open Eudora->Preferences and select the 'Getting Attention' panel
> - In the 'Sounds' section, for both 'New mail sound' and 'Attention
> sound', select a sound OTHER than one that has 'Eudora' in its name
> (ie. NOT 'Eudora Attention', 'Eudora New Mail' nor 'Eudora Short
> Warning')
Sure, but I like to change the New Mail sound to something other than
one of the standard alert sounds. I have set Eudora to use a file called
Benny1.aiff, in the ~/library/sounds folder (one bar from 'Swingtime in
the Rockies'). 6.2.4 will select that as its alert sound. It works.
It simply has to be an aiff file.
Does this work in 10.6?
--
Peter
Steve Maser
<jimsg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I *thought* there was one other thing to do to make things work in
> > 10.5, but I'm blanking on it.
>
> IIRC it was something to do with separate TOC files for mailboxes. I
> have 'Use old-style ".toc" files' checked in Miscellaneous Settings and
> never had any trouble.
Ah, yes -- that may have been it. I have always configured Eudora
that way.
- Steve