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OK things are getting interesting. I have figured out how to turn the folder of emails into an "archive".  AND that "Microsoft Importer for Lotus ccMail Archives" app is able to read these messages and properly import the right amount of messages!!! But here's the problem now. I have no idea...

I think I might be on to something. That is, I was on to something, until the computer froze. That's not too uncommon. But now it continues to freeze during the boot, no matter which of my many OS/Volumes I use. Hopefully it works itself out. 

I'm open to suggestions on how I would do this. I've been all over this app at this point, and I haven't seen anything like this. It's not a very complicated app either. 

Well the app was originally on the 550. I copied it to the PowerMac to make things easier and so I could work off a copy that I could revert to whenever I break stuff. Like when I tried to upgrade to OS 8 and it stopped auto-filling the password.  I'll have to look into this postscript printing...

rsolberg answers to your questions: PowerMac 7300 / 200MHz 256 or 288 MB of RAM (forget which) System 7.5.5 I can't upgrade the OS because doing so loses the remembered password and makes me have to type it again.  I have Acrobat 4.0.5 installed.  Yes this Mac is connected via ethernet...

I wouldn't know how to do this. When I open the files directly, it's all unreadable raw data. 

Alright I just scoured the app in ResEdit and didn't find anything that looked like a stored password. Also here's a picture of the prefs file, not much to go on here: Those aren't even typeable characters, right? So that's probably not it.  I also bought up the dot-count. There are 8 dots...

Ok I have the customer trying to remember their email password from the late 90s. That's probably going to come up nadas. The password is clearly stored somewhere in the ccMail 2.0 app. I looked in it's preferences file, but the file has no data fork, and a single resource that is 12 characters...

Ok here is the odd situation I'm in. Lotus's FTP site does not like Fetch, but the Finder worked well enough, and I was able to get ccMail 6.1 PPC Mac. So I installed it. Of course it didn't make an enclosing folder, so it just dumped all of its files right into my Applications folder. But once...

Also I had downloaded ccMail 6 from that lotus FTP site referenced a few months back. But turns out the files were corrupt. And now I can't find it anywhere on there.  :-/

Ok I managed to get Acrobat and the PDF Writer installed. Some emails print fine, others throw this error: Trying to print all 2800 messages gives this error too. I have a feeling it's something simple like maybe there are characters in the Subjects it doesn't like. But theres no easy way (or...

Still trying to get acrobat installed. This on macintosh garden are packaged in the worst possible ways for use on old Macs. That said, I'm hoping i'll be able to essentially Select All, Print and in one single function, print out all emails as PDFs. As separate documents, not as a multiplage...

Ok the customer bought ANOTHER powerbook 500 and that power adapter was able to turn on her machine no problem. I copied her hard drive to my 7300 and after copying a system enabler, my fast mac boots right up off her old data! So, back to the point of all this... how can I get these mails OUT...

Thanks for the info. Looks like this job is falling through after all. But I'm sure someone, years from now, will find this thread through google and find these answers interesting.  I was going to go with the brand new $40 80 GB drive from newegg. WD Blue.  Going from a 1 GB drive to an 80 GB...

I'm going to try to replace a failed hard drive in a powerbook 1400. The original drive is 1 GB, but of course you can't get 1 GB drives anymore. It is an ATA drive though. You can still get brand new 80 GB pata/ide drives on newegg for under $60.  But the question is... are there any issues...

I've got nothing but modern magsafe power supplies. and I'm also no good at soldering or board level electronics in general. I can't believe I have a need for one of these. I threw two away years ago thinking theres zero chance ill ever need one. 

What I really need is a working power supply i can borrow for a week or so

Interesting, that was the one I bought but it didn't work with my old small SCSI drives from my powerbook 540s. I guess it's possible both of my hard drives are dead, but seems unlikely.

I tried that with the one I bought off ebay. It still didn't work so I returned it.

I'm hoping that some day, someone gives me a WORKING 500 series to recycle. Then I can pop my drives in, copy anything readable off of them, then send it all on it's way.