On Monday 25 December 2023 at 15:45:08 UTC, W Cole wrote:
> reindexing eudora mailboxes.
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> I have about 20 mailboxes and during reindexing, it gets stuck on "5" mailboxes left. How do I figure out which mailbox is corrupt and causing the problem?
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The only way I know is to remove the mailboxes' .mbx and .toc files from the Eudora data folder one by one, and re-index each time until it completes successfully. Obviously move the files somewhere where you can easily restore them from!
The mailbox that's not in the folder is then presumably the faulty one.
This is of course no good if there's more than one faulty mailbox!
In that case, you'll have to do it the other way around. Remove all the mailboxes from the data folder, EXCEPT the system ones, which are 'In', 'Out', 'Junk', and 'Trash'. Don't remove them, as if you do Eudora will just create new empty ones.
Then put the mailboxes back one by one until the problem happens again.
Have you tried compacting the mailboxes before running the indexing?
HTH. Cheers, Dave.