Perhaps searching the "internet Way Back machine" might report some links to where the folks who attempted to continue development are now. I'm currently in the 'hinterlands' without strong inter web connections, so searching is rather tedious.
Hopefully,
Paddy will provide a link to the real 'Way Back' site, I don't think they celebrate July 4th up her way! Although they do have a similar event...
Right now I can't even remember what Eudora was going to become/called by a group of folk who tried to keep it alive for several years. It's oven easier to built an app from the ground up than to try patching known areas of out-of-date code or even understand exactly what the original code was doing. It can be hard to compete with well financed companies, also!
The whole concept of depending on any technology is becoming more important as we 'progress' with faster changes. I don't think I have anything that can load the many programs and data I created on cassette tapes for the Apple ][!!
After an uphill battle, I have finally solved for good this longstanding issue of lost links to Eudora attachments, hurrah !
If you read again the thread from my initial post, my key question was to locate where the number of the disappeared folder could possibly be recorded within Eudora, so as to re-create one folder with that very number in the spool folder, then insert in it the alias of the attachment and finally rename it with the number appearing in the statement of the type : <img src="x-eudora-file: P6C01B87D"> taken as an example.
It just happens that the Eudora program writers have been so smart
that they actually thought about that and devised some code to make sure that the missing folder would be re-created automatically every time the message was read, if and only if a folder of the expected number was not found present in the spool folder for any reason.
Basically, I do not need any more to find where the folder number is hidden within Eudora since a folder of the proper number will reappear automatically !
The trick is therefore very simple :
- start first by dumping to the bin all
empty folders found in the spool folder,
- display the spool folder in the list mode with the last created folder on top,
- opening then any message showing a link lost to the attachment it is meant to contain will end-up in two scenarios :
* either the folder related to the attachment does exist in the spool folder, it will then contain an alias named P6C01B87D (taking the example above) which can then be easily re-assigned to the proper original if/as needed,
* or the folder related to the attachment does not exist in the spool folder, it is then immediately re-created and shows-up as an empty folder right on the top. One just has then to copy an alias of the proper original into this folder and rename the alias P6C01B87D in our example.
This is probably too obscure and useless for "discontinued" users, but I think it may still be useful for obstinate current users like myself having dealt for ages with that issue...
Good luck !
PA
