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I've been backing up OE emails for the better part of five years.
Problem is, I save them to different folders, and or physical
locations, [fearing the loss of data on one medium or another].
Obviously then, in order to restore them in completeness, [whenever I
might have re-formatted and re-installed Windows 98], I end up
importing several duplicate messages. The ONLY way that I've found
to get rid of duplicates, triplicates, etc., [while still restoring
completeness], is to manually delete them, which is a very, very
exacerbating chore when emails number in the thousands.
At some point, I came to understand that I needed a different email
client, and that Eudora saved email differently. As yet though I
don't know how. Therefore, I thought it would be easier to keep
track of, and back up thousands of emails with it. I've been using
the sponsored mode for a few months now, and it suddenly would not
download it's ads as required. I was presented with warnings that it
would revert to "lite," mode, "sooner or later." Of course this
wouldn't work, and neither would a paid yearly subscription of $39 or
whatever it is!
I tried using Calypso for a time, [my personal favorite, sad that its
not developed anymore], and as I remember liked its simplicity. I
found it extremely difficult to get used to even the interface of
Eudora, after becoming so familiar with OE, and it has always been
difficult to stay away from it for these reasons of familiarity.
With that, I get still more duplicates from backups. Maybe I just
need to organize my backup regimin? I tried Outlook 97, [no way],
AKmail, and God knows how many others I've forgotten about. Then I
remembered my copy of Office XP. So know I'm running Outlook 2002.
It seems to me, well overdone for my needs, but without a strong
familiarity yet, how can the program solve my problems and meet my
needs? I've already imported some old OE files, [and it seems it
chooses its own location from which it obtains them, ....the
currently installed copy of OE only], and in my testing, trying to
locate old backups, I have multiple copies of the same emails. In
the thousands! Can this program find and delete duplicates? It
would not appear so. I selected not to import or save duplicates,
but it did anyway!
So I am still in search of an email application that can import from
any location, save in a non proprietary format, and eliminate
duplication no matter how many times I import them. Does it exist?
I can't believe that I am the only one with this problem, or that no
programmer has been able to deal with it! HELP!!!!
Thank you for reading
D.
Problem is, I save them to different folders, and or physical
locations, [fearing the loss of data on one medium or another].
Obviously then, in order to restore them in completeness, [whenever I
might have re-formatted and re-installed Windows 98], I end up
importing several duplicate messages. The ONLY way that I've found
to get rid of duplicates, triplicates, etc., [while still restoring
completeness], is to manually delete them, which is a very, very
exacerbating chore when emails number in the thousands.
At some point, I came to understand that I needed a different email
client, and that Eudora saved email differently. As yet though I
don't know how. Therefore, I thought it would be easier to keep
track of, and back up thousands of emails with it. I've been using
the sponsored mode for a few months now, and it suddenly would not
download it's ads as required. I was presented with warnings that it
would revert to "lite," mode, "sooner or later." Of course this
wouldn't work, and neither would a paid yearly subscription of $39 or
whatever it is!
I tried using Calypso for a time, [my personal favorite, sad that its
not developed anymore], and as I remember liked its simplicity. I
found it extremely difficult to get used to even the interface of
Eudora, after becoming so familiar with OE, and it has always been
difficult to stay away from it for these reasons of familiarity.
With that, I get still more duplicates from backups. Maybe I just
need to organize my backup regimin? I tried Outlook 97, [no way],
AKmail, and God knows how many others I've forgotten about. Then I
remembered my copy of Office XP. So know I'm running Outlook 2002.
It seems to me, well overdone for my needs, but without a strong
familiarity yet, how can the program solve my problems and meet my
needs? I've already imported some old OE files, [and it seems it
chooses its own location from which it obtains them, ....the
currently installed copy of OE only], and in my testing, trying to
locate old backups, I have multiple copies of the same emails. In
the thousands! Can this program find and delete duplicates? It
would not appear so. I selected not to import or save duplicates,
but it did anyway!
So I am still in search of an email application that can import from
any location, save in a non proprietary format, and eliminate
duplication no matter how many times I import them. Does it exist?
I can't believe that I am the only one with this problem, or that no
programmer has been able to deal with it! HELP!!!!
Thank you for reading
D.