OE won't load

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    RESOLUTION #1
I installed Eudora OSE on her machine.  I set it to run in "simple mode",
seems nice and she should be able to adapt in a month or so  :)

    RESOLUTION #2
I kept thinking about why the problem persisted after putting back a good
image.  Well, duh...because the OE dbx store is on a different partition.  I
put it there so that if the XP partition ever had to be restored she would
still have all those so important emails.

After extracting the dbx file folder from an image of the correct drive and
putting it where it should be, all was well and I dumped Eudora.

    COMMENT
I am sure many will say I should have kept Eudora, that it is *FAR* superior
to OE.  May be but wifie isn't used to it.  My wife is not stupid butlike
many people she just doesn't "get" computers; for example, she doesn't
understand that all programs interface with the user in similar ways and
that a solution to some problem or difficulty in one can usually be applied
to a problem with another.  Consequently, OE is better for her and being
better for her is better for me.  Why me?  Consider this...

HER - <shouting because we are at opposite ends of the house> Can you come
here?

ME - Why?

HER - This program won't do anything

ME - What program?

HER - My mail program

ME - OE or Mailwasher?

HER - OE I think

ME - What is wrong with it?

HER - It won't do anything

ME - Is it maximized?  Does it cover the whole screen?

HER - Yes

ME - Well, minimize it and see if there is a message box under it

HER - How do I do that?

ME - Click the box with the "minus sign" at the upper right corner

ME (after a while) - Well?  Did you minimize it?

HER - Yes.  There was a thing under it.

ME - What does the thing say?

HER - It says that the program performed an illegal action and will be shut
down to protect my computer.

ME - Fine.  Close the message box

HER - Will I lose my email?

ME - No

HER - OK, It's gone.  How do I get my email back?

ME - Open OE.

The above exchange is fictitious but representative of many, many exchanges
over the years.  I suspect it is familiar to many of you and is why I dumped
Eudora in favor of OE.

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AND if you had INFORMED US that the DBX store was on ANOTHER
partition the problem could have been resolved MUCH FASTER. Give
yourself a slap.
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Pssst! Whisper - if you had trimmed all the foregoing I'd not have had
to scroll down so far to see what you had to say!

Give *your self* a slap! ;-D
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Okay...guilty as charged. SLAP!!!!!!
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Glad you figured out the problem. Sometimes it is the simplest things,
isn't it?
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That's all very well, but if you had your way, he would've flattened and
rebuilt.
 
Aardvark said:
That's all very well, but if you had your way, he would've flattened and
rebuilt.
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You've rarely seen that recommendation from me, and certainly didn't see it
in this thread :-) I'm a firm believer in fighting it to the death, even
when it's no longer feasible (I've always thrived on adversity- that's why I
went into retail, and then IS/IT later in my career(s)).
 
You've rarely seen that recommendation from me, and certainly didn't see
it in this thread :-) I'm a firm believer in fighting it to the death,
even when it's no longer feasible
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It is because time has no value for you. In a busy IT department, it is
the results that counts. Users wants their systems to be fixed NOW;
Not when you have finished fighting to the death! You are a hobbyists;
For professional IT guys it is job to thrive in a competitive environment!.
 
Tester said:
It is because time has no value for you. In a busy IT department, it is
the results that counts. Users wants their systems to be fixed NOW;
Not when you have finished fighting to the death! You are a hobbyists;
For professional IT guys it is job to thrive in a competitive
environment!.
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I'm a hobbyist now; IS/IT was my job for almost 20 years. During that time,
I had viable backups/images so I *still* didn't have to flatten and rebuild.
I knew my job, and I did it well. Now that I'm retired, I really could give
a shit less if it takes me all day or all week to fix something- it's mine,
so who cares but me? BTW, I still have viable, proven, and current images of
my systems, so if I do get tired of fighting it, it's all good in an hour or
so.

Time is of value to me; just not as valuable as it used to be :-) Take time
to smell the roses. . .
 
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