Versioning Eudora email file trees doesn't work

[Eric <sp...@scoot.netis.com>]

I tried creating a repository on our remote Subversion server in which to 
store email that's managed by Eudora on Windows (i.e. a file tree of files 
like .mbx, .toc, and various others).

I imported the email file tree and then checked it out again, into another 
directory.  Used Beyond Compare to verify that the files were all identical 
to the uploaded files, except for the file dates (yes, I also wish that 
Subversion would maintain the original last-modified date on files).

Fired up Eudora, pointed it to the newly downloaded directory of files, and 
it crashed and burned, threw an exception, threatened to report me to 
Microsoft :-), all the stuff that Windoze programs typically do when they 
crash and burn.

The only two differences between the original email file tree and the 
newly-downloaded working copy were the file dates and the newly-inserted 
.svn directories ... yes, I also wish that Subversion would maintain the 
original last-modified date on files ... oh, wait, I already said that.  :-)

Anybody have any idea why Eudora can't handle email trees stored in and 
retrieved from Subversion?


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Re: Versioning Eudora email file trees doesn't work

[Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>]

On 2/27/07, Eric <sp...@scoot.netis.com> wrote:
>
> I tried creating a repository on our remote Subversion server in which to
> store email that's managed by Eudora on Windows (i.e. a file tree of files
> like .mbx, .toc, and various others).
>
> I imported the email file tree and then checked it out again, into another
> directory.  Used Beyond Compare to verify that the files were all identical
> to the uploaded files, except for the file dates (yes, I also wish that
> Subversion would maintain the original last-modified date on files).
>
> Fired up Eudora, pointed it to the newly downloaded directory of files, and
> it crashed and burned, threw an exception, threatened to report me to
> Microsoft :-), all the stuff that Windoze programs typically do when they
> crash and burn.
>
> The only two differences between the original email file tree and the
> newly-downloaded working copy were the file dates and the newly-inserted
> .svn directories ... yes, I also wish that Subversion would maintain the
> original last-modified date on files ... oh, wait, I already said that.  :-)
>
> Anybody have any idea why Eudora can't handle email trees stored in and
> retrieved from Subversion?

In a copy of your "good" Eudora mail directory, create an empty
directory named .svn. Does that cause a crash as well?

If it does (and maybe even if it doesn't), then I think your answers
lie with Eudora support, not Subversion.

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