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  • Search stopped working in my Eudora

    From rdg93412@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 13 13:18:58 2023
    Long time user of Eudora V7.1.0.9. Have 20+ years of mail stored.

    Recently the CTRL-F search function shows blank results for any of my many in/out mailboxes regardless of search criteria. I did recently have a corrupted in.mbx that I corrected by transferring "good" mail from the end of the problem box to my backup
    good box and making that in.mbx. Results were fine. I THINK the search problem occurred after this, but not sure. However, search doesn't work for any mailbox, so messing with only in.mbx doesn't correlate with the problem.

    Any help would really be appreciated, since I frequently do searches on my prior messages.

    Thanks,
    Ralph

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  • From Daniel909@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 14 07:49:32 2023
    Hi Ralph

    Try going to:
    Tools > Options > Find Messages
    Use Fast (Indexed) Search should be checked. If it is not checked this may be why the search is not working.
    Or the search database may need indexing. To do this click on "Index Now".
    This could take a few hours depending upon how many e-mails you have and how fast your computer is.
    Failing this try "Re-Index E-mail"

    Best wishes
    Daniel

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  • From rdg93412@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 14 09:35:39 2023
    Thanks very much for the info. I checked and "fast search" is ON. Since I have an old laptop, I'll wait until I sleep to Index Now. Will report the results tomorrow.

    Thanks again,
    Ralph

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  • From rdg93412@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 15 09:56:04 2023
    Daniel,

    I tried “index now” and let it run overnight. Didn't solve my problem. However, I'm not sure it was even indexing. How do I tell if the indexing is really occurring? Can I use Explorer to see a file being created or updated? The indexing pop up
    window says something about seeing the progress. I opened the Task Status window, but do not see any progress reported. Also, if I click ”index now” then OK, then look at the CPU status for Eudora in Task Manager it's 0%.

    Thanks for your help,
    Ralph

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  • From Daniel909@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 17 03:07:08 2023
    On Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 17:56:05 UTC+1, rdg93412 wrote:
    Daniel,

    I tried “index now” and let it run overnight. Didn't solve my problem. However, I'm not sure it was even indexing. How do I tell if the indexing is really occurring? Can I use Explorer to see a file being created or updated? The indexing pop up
    window says something about seeing the progress. I opened the Task Status window, but do not see any progress reported. Also, if I click ”index now” then OK, then look at the CPU status for Eudora in Task Manager it's 0%.

    Thanks for your help,
    Ralph

    Hi Ralph

    Did you try "Re-Index Email"? I would try it if "Index Now" is not working.

    From memory, in the Task Status window there should be a blue progress bar and/or some text stating how many messages or index updates it has left to process. In Tools > Options I assume that you must check "Show Index Update Progress in Task Status bar
    when more than 100 updates are pending" for the progress message to show.

    In Explorer I have a sub-folder within Eudora called "Search". You could check to see if any changes are being made to the files in that folder. In my folder there are 11 files with today's date plus a number of older files. It appears to me that the
    Search Index is built up from a number of different files and that some of the files contain details of changes to the index and are created as and when new e-mails are received and old ones are deleted (that is my guess). I have the paid version of
    Eudora with X1 search. The unpaid version of Eudora has a different search so the search index files are probably different and could be in the Eudora folder.

    Best wishes
    Daniel

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  • From rdg93412@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 17 13:35:50 2023
    Daniel

    Thought I'd replied, but guess not.

    Will try "index now'. However, I have no way of knowing if it's running or finished. If it doesn't work, I'll go back to a "good" inbox from March and try to update it with current msgs. I did run Eudora from my backup folder March and search works on
    with it.

    Thanks,
    Ralph

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  • From Daniel909@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 18 01:57:53 2023
    On Monday, 17 April 2023 at 21:35:52 UTC+1, rdg93412 wrote:
    Daniel

    Thought I'd replied, but guess not.

    Will try "index now'. However, I have no way of knowing if it's running or finished. If it doesn't work, I'll go back to a "good" inbox from March and try to update it with current msgs. I did run Eudora from my backup folder March and search works on
    with it.

    Thanks,
    Ralph

    Hi Ralph

    My next suggestion would have been to back up your mailboxes and other settings files, then try reinstalling Eudora.

    Good luck!
    Daniel

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  • From rdg93412@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 18 18:40:45 2023
    Dennis:

    Success! I took a one month old backup Eudora folder where Search worked. Added mailboxes from problem folder with box name changes (e.g. In.mbx/toc became CurIn.mbx/toc). Transferred all mail since backup date from Curxx.mbx to existing mailboxes.
    Search works on everything!

    Not sure what caused my problem a month ago. My 8 year old Win7 has been crashing every now and then and I know it did while I was creating a message in Eudora a couple of times. Maybe this caused it?

    Anyway, all is fine now and I really appreciate your tips.

    Ralph

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  • From Pamela@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 19 21:12:27 2023
    On 17:56 15 Apr 2023, rdg93412 said:

    Daniel,

    I tried “index now” and let it run overnight. Didn't solve my
    problem. However, I'm not sure it was even indexing. How do I tell
    if the indexing is really occurring? Can I use Explorer to see a file
    being created or updated? The indexing pop up window says something
    about seeing the progress. I opened the Task Status window, but do
    not see any progress reported. Also, if I click ”index now” then
    OK, then look at the CPU status for Eudora in Task Manager it's 0%.

    Thanks for your help,
    Ralph

    On my PC, indexing stops when Eudora is no longer the top window. I think
    it also stops when you use the keyboard or mouse. This effectively means
    it won't index in the background.

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