Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated August 21, 2003.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


[135]  "Netscape Method" title;
The method you describe for converting Eudora for Windows email to Mac Mail no longer
works. I think that Eudora has evolved since the version you must have used -- now
(as of version 6.1) it uses Rich Text Format for display of email text, and the
conversion via Netscape (now at version 7.2) leaves you with emails that are HTML
coded in plain text. It's unreadable!

Fortunately, there is an excellent solution. There is an amazing, donation-ware
product called Eudora Mailbox Cleaner by Andreas Amann that does that job and more
very cleanly.
See: http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Eudora_Mailbox_Cleaner.html
This will not only move and properly convert all of your Eudora/Win emails complete
with rich text formatting, but will also keep the flags, filters, attachments, and
color-coding of the originals! It also moves your "nicknames" into your addressbook.
It's a Mac application (and two scripts) that doesn't rquire installing anything on
your Windows machine.

For my mailbox of about 3000 messages, your Netscape method took about 75 minutes and
produced unreadable garbage. The Eudora Cleaner worked in about 45 minutes with the
above results.

{259} FAQ;
"We certainly can't have people watching a DVD before the movie studio says it's OK! That's why many discs are region-locked".

Wrong : that's doesn't explain why DVDs of ancient features are protected too. In fact, the whole paragraph suggests hat people whio want to unlock their drives are pirats. That's plain wrong. People in Europe for example, have a huge collection of zone 1 DVDs which don't exist in their country. That's why in the PC world we have softs like anydvd, which doesn't exist on Mac, and this is almost a dealbreaker (on a mac, you have to flash your drive and to use region X). I suggest you rewrite this paragraph for the next edition, insisting that the region changing system is unfair to many cinema collectors.