[G4] Moving G4 List to Hard Drive

[Al Poulin]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
> At 19:11 -0700 4/28/08, John Sparks wrote:
>> Hi Al and others:
>> I apparently was not clear, on my old G4 1.25Dual 800 running OS   
>> 10.4.11, I saved all the G4 List to my Hard Drive, which I still  
>> have  on an external H/D. ( Old G4 Power Supply and Logic Board  
>> crashed and  burned, mysteriously). This was in Mail and to a  
>> Mailbox in Mail.
>>
>> Now on the Mac Pro, OS 10.5.2 and in Mail I can file all e-mail to a
>> mailbox except My G4 List. It will not let me move it. This stumps  
>> me,  I tried moving a copy, and I tried resending list to me, to no  
>> avail.
>
> That sure sounds like a badly damaged file on the disk. It's the  
> kind of thing that can happen is a hardware failure in the computer  
> occurred while writing additions to the file.
>
> You might try making a copy of the file with Terminal.app. cp is the  
> logical UNIX command. cpMac was the way to go in 10.3.9 but I think  
> its features are included in cp as of Leopard. DIsk Utility might be  
> helpful.
>
> List-Archive: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4>
>
> But it seems not to be working tonight.
>
> I probably have the messages on a disk somewhere. They would be in  
> "standard" *.mbx files as kept by Eudora pretty much the same way  
> they're kept on a POP3 server. Reply off line if you want to pursue  
> that. Leave the subject line as is to keep out of my filters.

This is still a pretty blurry picture to me.  I do not know for sure  
whether John has a problem saving individual G4 List messages to a  
mailbox or a problem moving an entire folder or mailbox full of G4  
List mail from one place to another.

Al Poulin