Opening a mail box hangs, then core dumps

Nicolas Castagne

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Apr 30, 2009, 5:00:57 AM4/30/09

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Hi folks,

on my macintosh, mac os X.3, Eudora 6.0,
Eurora started hanging while openining the "in" mailbox, then crashed.

i've changed the "in" mailbox to another name "OldIn", and reseted the
necessary Eudora settings.

Now, Eudora runs correctly.

But, when I open the OldIn mailbox, Eudora still hangs, then crashes.
I guess it is a problem with the TOC.

Is there a fix on the mac to rebuild the TOC ?

Thanks,
Nicolas

Nicolas Castagne

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Apr 30, 2009, 5:04:41 AM4/30/09

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Here is the backtrace of the program.
Indeed, the problem originates in "BuildTOC / CheckTOC" .

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.QD 0x921c2d28 InternalColor2Index +
0xbc
1 com.apple.QD 0x921c4c60 SetPortRGBForeColor +
0x50
2 com.apple.QD 0x921d02a4 ForeColor + 0x30
3 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x95754fe0 NormalizeColorAndPen +
0x28
4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x95611950 HitTestWindowDefinition
(WindowData*, Point) + 0x44
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9561fb58 _FindWindowPartHit +
0x50
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9561a260
AddWindowDataToMouseEvent + 0x7c
7 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x956109d8
ConvertPlatformEventRecordAndPostWithOptions + 0x484
8 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x95614454
PullEventsFromWindowServerOnConnection + 0x144
9 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x956171b0
PullEventsFromWindowServer + 0x18
10 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x95612d6c
GetNextEventMatchingMask + 0x5c
11 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9561c620 EventAvail + 0x5c
12 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x0062d7d8 MyOSEventAvail + 0x2c
13 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x0062df24 EventPending + 0x44
14 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004f9a68 NeedYield + 0x10c
15 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x00628bec MiniEventsLo + 0x20
16 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x00456a34 CycleBalls + 0x124
17 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004d026c GetLine + 0x3c
18 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x00442b0c ReadSum + 0xec4
19 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x00441a9c BuildTOC + 0x354
20 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x005fd2c8 CheckTOC + 0x80
21 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004e7140 OpenMailbox + 0x120
22 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004e6fe8 GetMailbox + 0x1b0
23 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x0064e5ac MBDrawerLVCallBack +
0x250
24 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004dc1e0 CallBack + 0x18
25 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004dcd28 UpdateSelection + 0x228
26 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004da2c8 LVClick + 0x37c
27 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x0064e324 MBDrawerClick + 0x8c
28 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004f7358 DoContentClick + 0x134
29 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004f71b8 DoMouseDown + 0x560
30 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004f6014 HandleEvent + 0x1b4
31 eudora-carbonpwpc 0x004f425c main + 0x174

Kathy Morgan

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Apr 30, 2009, 1:42:11 PM4/30/09

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Nicolas Castagne <cast...@imag.fr> wrote:

I don't know the answer, but something that others will probably want to
know in order to help is what kind of TOC do you use. Do you use the
old style ".toc" files, or is the TOC stored in the resource fork? (To
check, look at your Settings under "Miscellaneous.")

I think if you use the old style ".toc" files, you can just move the
file to a different location and Eudora will rebuild the file. You'll
lose the information about which messages have been read or deleted or
responded to, but at least you would be able to open the mailbox. (You
may have to quit and restart Eudora to get the benefit.)

--
Kathy

John H Meyers

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Apr 30, 2009, 4:37:39 PM4/30/09

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The following article may contain useful information
about forcing a rebuild of a TOC in a mailbox resource fork,
as well as how to delete a resource fork
(which, in itself, should of course force a rebuild,
if the current general option is to use resource forks for TOCs):

"How to Fix Corrupt Eudora Mailboxes"
http://db.tidbits.com/article/9545 [04 Apr 2008]

Although it initially sounded like a great idea
to use resource forks for TOCs,
this practice comes with various "gotchas,"
which might make the "separate TOC files" idea
just a bit better, in the long run.

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