May 16, 2000
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A story of woe. I started getting these weird system freezes while using BBEdit today. Here’s the scenario… I’ve set up a series of KeyQuencer macros to streamline wrapping text blocks with <font> tags, and after calling the same macro four or five times, BBEdit would freeze and give me the old rapid flashing system error dialog box. If you have ever experienced one of these on your Mac, you know that it’s enough to have a significant case of “oh shit!” wash over your body. I figured that this was a good time to reboot, extensions off, and fire up Norton to do a quick disk and system check. Well, it turns out that my work drive has a couple of bad blocks, which in itself isn’t that big of a deal. The real problem is that my email database is sitting on top of one of those blocks, making it impossible to back it up in its current state. I needed to get the last three weeks worth of filed messages (idiot!) out of there before reformatting my drive. The next step? I dug up a couple of AppleScripts from Fog City Software’s Emailer utilities page that allowed me to export each of my email folders as Eudora mailbox formatted text files. Tomorrow we’ll low-level format my drive, copy back everything that I did have current backups for, and then suck the most recent email messages into their respective folders from the Eudora files back into Emailer. I’ll definitely post an update to this boneheaded escapade of mine.
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