Re: Editing a 2GB+ file

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Very interesting question. There used to be utilities that would
de-catenate (?) a file . . . . or I imagine you could use a sector
editor if you had the patience to deal with it. The trick with Eudora
is never, never to let the files get anywhere near that large. 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.

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