[OS X TeX] OT: Choice between Panther and Tiger

[Richard Seguin]

Furthermore, if you do a clean install like I did, you have to use  
the Import Mailboxes function under the file menu. You then select  
Mail for Mac OS X and then you have to point it to your old mail  
folder wherever you have stored it . In my case, the old mailboxes  
were backed up to a CD, and it imported them with no problem directly  
from the CD. It does not work to just simply move your old mailboxes  
into the new Mail folder as it once did. If you do that, the mail  
boxes appear in the sidebar, but they also appear to be empty.

I've had no problems with anything since I have upgraded. I like the  
new preview module in TeXShop.  The synchronization feature works  
beautifully without distorting the layout of the document (i.e,  
making it longer), and it now displays hyper-references.  Alas, my  
old Titanium powerbook isn't fast enough to use the text editor with  
syntax coloring turned on. I wonder if anyone is working on a similar  
synchronization mechanism between BBEdit and the TeXShop previewer.

Richard Séguin

On May 8, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Thinking about all the things that've been said about Tiger in a  
> week, the pros and cons, and about the people that may be wondering  
> whether it's worth to upgrade: one very important thing to realize  
> is that, as far as email is concerned, the change is irreversible.
>
> When loading Mail in Tiger for the first time, you will be asked  
> whether you allow your mailboxes to be converted for use in Tiger.  
> The conversion is actually not trivial: for compatibility with  
> SpotLight, your mailboxes, which were all kept in Unix-compatible  
> format, as a mbox file inside a .mbox bundle, will be separated  
> into a multitude of .emlx files, one per message. The new  
> organisation of a mailbox will be, for example:
>
> OS X TeX.mbox:
>     Info.plist
>     Messages
>         15752.emlx
>         15753.emlx
>         ...
>     content_index
>     mbox
>     mbox.SKindex
>     mbox.SKindex.isValid
>     table_of_contents
>
> As new messages come in, the original mbox file won't be updated,  
> neither will be the accompanying files table_of_contents etc.;  
> instead, the new messages will all be added as individual .emlx  
> files inside the Messages subfolder.
>
> This means that it won't be possible to easily import your  
> mailboxes in Mozilla or Thunderbird say, should you consider later  
> to switch emailer or change platform.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
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