![]() I hadn't given virtualization a thought and now it looks like an interesting possibility. If you have any other ideas, please post osnola: Your link was an extremely interesting read. I'm thinking of using DevonThink, an app I'm already familiar with. Your comments are quite helpful to me as well as (hopefully) for others following this BrianBaughan: Your observation about setting up a document organization program is well taken. ![]() tet, and whether or not the email was in Eudora format. Even the "un-edited" file is easily readable "around the garbage characters" Sickboy: Thank you for continuing to follow this discussion and for clarifying such things as binary vs. Then save it as a text (or WP) file wherever you need to.Īgain, it's only necessary to do this work on those files you feel it's necessary to clean up. Once you open it as such, there will be a couple of "blocks" of garbage characters that can be -quickly- edited out. Choose TextEdit, or you could choose any other text editing app or perhaps WP app (I was also able to open the file with LibreOffice). If you double-click on it, you'll get a dialog stating that there's no application to open it, and that you need to choose one. zip file in post 11 above, I put it on the desktop and the drag-and-dropped it onto the TextEdit icon in my dock. It's MORE IMPORTANT to understand HOW to convert an email, when for some reason you need to locate an individual email and open it. It's NOT necessary to try to convert 20,000 emails, just so long as you still have them, even if they remain stored in AOL's older and proprietary format. I took the file in post #11 above, and in about 30 seconds, had this: Thanks again, we really appreciate the input. I'll keep trying to get help from AOL after the first of the year, as well as check out the offered suggestions here. Calls to AOL have so far been unproductive, hence the question here. when we tried this, things seemed to go quite well but then on each of several tries, the import stalled at 30%. That was where I got the 20K figure from. One other thing was when we fired up her newer Mini and discovered this problem, we checked the AOL menus and found one that gave the option to import 20,000 messages from an older version. We thought we had a backup drive but that seems to be lost. ![]() All I have right now is a folder that I managed to copy filled with the AOL stuff. Whether anything on it is recoverable is up in the air at this point. In answer to the points made by "fishrrman," I do have the older Mini but it's in the repair shop now. The file on my Mac shows up as one of those nebulous "Unix executable file" types but is readable using TE. Per request I'm attaching a zipped example file. Many thanks for the tips, especially the links provided by Sickboy. I've been off the air for a while and am grateful for the extended discussion below. To all above who have taken the time to research and respond to my query:
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