Converting data from Eudora was placed in Thunderbird folder but TB did not pick it up this time
I'm trying to figure how this worked before, but I cannot get it to work. I ran this conversion program (Aid4Mail) and it creates a folder in the Thunderbird folder and under it is the Profiles folder. The folder's name is "ec8kosyd.default.sbd\Mail.sbd\Local Folders.sbd\Imported Mail.sbd\Eudora.sbd" and under that is all my mail folders from Eudora. Now once before I "stumbled" into it and created the folder structure in TB itself. What I need to know is what is the proper way to get this to work. It seems TB goes to the TB folder and follows it down until it finds the "ec8kosyd" name and then follows it down and creates the mail folders in the "LOCAL..." folder in TB. Thank you. Ted
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Hi Matt,
Thank you for your help! Aid4Mail produced the folders in the "Thunderbird" folder that I mentioned. What happened to me just once is that when I opened TB all this data was processed by TB and I had all my Eudora folders in TB and all my Addresses/Contacts as well. However, I have not been able to duplicate this again. So I've been trying to find the way it worked but, I have no solution. TB just seems to be ignoring it. I was using TB version 17.0.9 (one post suggested 17 was better than 31) and no luck. I'll try Ver 31 as you suggest - what sub-version is best?). But I have a suspicion that the order of creating the folder and starting TB is important and I have not found it out yet. I wish there was a User Guide that would tell you the "secret" of all this. BTW: Aid4Mail is a utility that does what Import does but does a more complete job.
ALSO: I noticed there are a lot of Ver 31 sub-releases - So which one do you recommend? Thanks. Ted
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Thunderbird creates those folders when you run the Eudora import wizard. Given this wizard is disabled in Version 38 you are not going to stumble on it in this version. Version 31 will be the last Thunderbird version to import from Eudora.
What this aid4mail is I have no idea.
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Hi Matt,
Thank you for your help! Aid4Mail produced the folders in the "Thunderbird" folder that I mentioned. What happened to me just once is that when I opened TB all this data was processed by TB and I had all my Eudora folders in TB and all my Addresses/Contacts as well. However, I have not been able to duplicate this again. So I've been trying to find the way it worked but, I have no solution. TB just seems to be ignoring it. I was using TB version 17.0.9 (one post suggested 17 was better than 31) and no luck. I'll try Ver 31 as you suggest - what sub-version is best?). But I have a suspicion that the order of creating the folder and starting TB is important and I have not found it out yet. I wish there was a User Guide that would tell you the "secret" of all this. BTW: Aid4Mail is a utility that does what Import does but does a more complete job.
ALSO: I noticed there are a lot of Ver 31 sub-releases - So which one do you recommend? Thanks. Ted
Hmm if this utility worked as advertised and did a better job, your mail would be visible.
with Thunderbird the latest version is always the best for security reasons. V3 to 31 all do much the same job importing Eudora. It is just unfortunate the Eudora kept things in such a scatter gun manner.
For a folder to appear under local folder it must have ab MBOX file. if you look in the local folders on the file system you will see files names inbox and trash say. they will also be accompanied by an MSF file. But this is not important. If the folder has a sub folder, there will be a directory with the same name and an SDB extension. with will contains the MBOX files for the sub folders.
Whenever you do anything in the filesystem with these folders. Thunderbird must be closed. You should also delete the foldertree.json file to force a refresh of the cached folder structure.