On 2/27/07, Eric <spamsink@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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Received on Tue Feb 27 20:26:04 2007