On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:43:39 -0700 (PDT), Kum?ra Bhikkhu
Post by KumÄra BhikkhuI've been using Eudora 7 on Windows 7. My old HD is ailing, so I've installed a new HD. Now I want to transfer my Eudora files into the new HD.
Any complete resource in the Web on this?
Depends on what all was done prior to changing the hard drive...
If you used a decent backup program that can do a drive image restore
onto the new drive (probably running from a recovery disk, so that the
restore can fiddle with all Windows files, especially the registry) then
the end result should be a system that looks identical.
If your new drive is configured with Win10 (something I had to do a few
years ago, as there was no Win7 installation media with my computer -- and
a recovery partition /on/ the failing drive is not usable... and could not
be cloned to the new drive [it apparently checked for drive serial number
or some such]...
Run the Eudora installer with default options.
Start Eudora from your user account -- this will initialize the user
data directory: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Qualcomm\Eudora
Exit Eudora.
Copy the user data directory from the old drive to the new one.
IF <user> name changed, or your old data directory was in a different
location, open eudora.ini in a text editor (not word processor) and search
it for any path strings that referred to the old location, edit those
strings to match the new location. Things like:
AutoReceiveAttachmentsDirectory=C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Qualcomm\Eudora\attach
The next time you start Eudora, it should now find the copied user
configuration and work with it.
*** THERE SHOULD BE /NO/ USER DATA FOUND IN THE EUDORA INSTALL
DIRECTORY ***
Copying the Eudora install directory is therefore, rather futile, since
you have to run the installer anyway to set up Windows Registry entries.
Also, if going from a 32-bit OS to a 64-bit OS, the installation directory
will be different.
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