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Re: Editing a 2GB+ file

 What I do, as an annual pennance, is to create a new Eudora folder for
ever year, and then create boxes such as In06, etc.-- and then move all
that year's in and out boxes to these files, resulting in slimmed down in
and out boxes.


Me, too.
At 10/25/2008 08:52 AM, you wrote:
My email client, Eudora, decided that it could no longer read its In box
(In.mbx), and I discovered why: It had grown to more than 2 GB.

In the past, I have fixed Eudora crises by editing In.mbx with XY4, which
sees it as just a giant text file. XY4 will open this file, too, with a
message saying Disk Is Full Writing To Overflow File. There's plenty of
room on the disk--I would guess I'm up against some 2GB limit.

I can highight things to be deleted and delete them, which would probably
repair the file enough for use. However, XY4 won't SAve the edited
file--it freezes. Wordpad and M$ Word won't let me read the mbx file,
although I have renamed it as a .txt. They just show empty boxes.

Is there any way to deal with this ridiculously large file? For instance,
is there some tool to just chop it in half in the middle? That would
destroy one email, but probably make the file small enough for XY4.


 Or is there another ASCII editor that might be able to handle it?

Jon Pareles


Harry Binswanger
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