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| Saturday, November 16, 2002 |
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Remedial reality
So I've recovered 255 file fragments, some of which are recognized by Eudora as mbox files, and some of which aren't. The ones it aren't take about 10 minutes each to open and are superlong text files one email after another. I'm slowly going through the debris here and assembling a new set of mostly old mailboxes. The result is a glue & baling wire affair, but better than nothing, I guess.
Doubt I'll have time to finish it before my mom and sis wake up, when I'll need to break this off. Might not get a chance to finish until I'm in Las Vegas tomorrow. If then.
Lot of lessons here. What sucks is that I've learned them all before. You'd think, etc.
[Later...] It's pretty much a complete train wreck. What appears to be the current inbox has about 10 intact emails and an 11th that's 17MB huge. Eudora crashes trying to open it.
Same is true for most of the other current and recent archival mailboxes. Pretty useless stuff.
Right now I'm trying to recover settings and my address book. Does anybody know the file types for those? If so, let me know in that discuss section there on the left. Thanks.
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