Too many imported msgs from Eudora crashes TB?

EPP

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Jan 3, 2010, 7:01:02 PM1/3/10

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I have a HUGE number of messages in my Eudora7, over 36,000, dating
back to 1995(!), but when I tried to import them to TB3, it invariably
starts the import process just fine, chugs along, then crashes TB
completely. Is this a known bug or is there a way to get around this?
If I could just import selected folders that would help, but... And
yes, I've already compressed all the folders as best I can, including
the .00x ones. I am aware that I can run a dupe check on TB once I get
them all in, but there's the rub :)

TIA

elaine
charlottesville, va

EPP

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Jan 3, 2010, 7:16:18 PM1/3/10

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FOLLOW UP:

I moved out ALL the mailboxes except for the 4 basic system ones, in,
out, junk, trash, and it STILL crashes TB3. I'm really mystified
now...

elaine

Ron Hunter

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Jan 3, 2010, 8:39:23 PM1/3/10

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Haven't you ever heard of 'not putting all your eggs in one basket.'??
You should move that file to a safe place, and start a new one, at least
once a year. TB is unlikely to be able to handle a file of that size
without serious slowdowns.

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Wayne Mery

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Jan 3, 2010, 9:00:17 PM1/3/10

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more to the point, find your crash report id
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad#Location_of_crash_reports ... if the
crash report matches one of these
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=crash;query_format=advanced;keywords_type=allwords;short_desc=eudora;short_desc_type=allwordssubstr;resolution=---;product=MailNews%20Core;product=Thunderbird;product=Toolkit
please comment in the bug so you can assist with the resolution.

If not a match, please file a new bug with the crash report id.

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epack

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Jan 3, 2010, 9:09:03 PM1/3/10

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> Ron Hunter - rphun...@charter.net

Of COURSE I know that--my inbox/out/trash/junk boxes are kept quite
small for best performance, and I have all of those other older
messages spread out thru 120 separate sub mailboxes, all of which are
completely separate files from the inbox. They can and are fairly
regularly copied elsewhere for safety--yes I do need to keep them,
this isn't about that. That said, tho, as noted, I physically moved
ALL of the mail folders except those 4 outside of Eudora, and it still
crashes.The 4 left over are a total of under 3MB with most of the
remaining messages in the inbox. Surely that shouldn't make it crash?
I'm talking CRASH, btw, not slowdown.I get a screen to notify the
developers and then to restart TB.

elaine

Ron Hunter

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Jan 4, 2010, 3:51:14 AM1/4/10

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In that case, it appears that something is corrupt in one of the files.
Have you tried to do them one at a time?

Nir

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Jan 4, 2010, 2:14:47 PM1/4/10

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There was a bug in Mac OSX version which was fixed long ago.
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313145>

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Angel50

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Jan 4, 2010, 7:17:44 PM1/4/10

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I had this problem happen to me before;
It is not that there are too many imported messages;
it is that one of the messages in not properly formatted or has junk
chars;

I used to find the offening message and delete it off the file and re-
import;
it would go on for a while and import more messages but would crash
again-

Just repeated the process until I imported all the messages;

I did not analyze the problem too much;

Just find the last message imported and remove the next message off
the file and try it again...

(make a good copy of the file first so you have a backup before you
start deleting...

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