Yup, I got my PowerBook back today, earlier than expected. They replaced my logic board for the 3rd time — this time a new one, I am told (sometimes Apple will provide only refurbished parts to the repair centers). On my Customer Service Report I see this under Logic Board part no. 661-2537:

Serial No.
New: QT22502KLF8A
Old: QT225027LF8A

Cool, huh?

I picked up the PowerBook after work, at around 6:45pm. When I reached home, I showered, played with Justin a short while before his bed time (around 8pm), had dinner, and read the newspaper. Now, I have just finished migrating all my Eudora mailboxes/messages that I had in PC format to the Mac. I used a very handy external hard disk (2.5", bus-powered FireWire + USB 1.1/2.0) to get the mailbox files across. I had been using Eudora on my home and work PCs (running Windows 2000) while my PowerBook was in the repair center, since May 20th (10 days).

With Eudora, the text part of all messages are in a standard text format and all attachments are saved individually to a separate folder. Each "mailbox" (e.g. In, Out, Trash) is a separate text file and the only difference between the format on Macs and PCs is how each system (Mac or Windows) handles text — with only the carriage returns and line feeds (CR/LF) being different. On the Mac, I can convert between the Mac and PC text formats using the popular text editor, BBEdit, or in Mac OS 9 I used to use a program called "CRLF" (unfortunately, no longer available) that I could just drag and drop a bunch of files onto to do the conversion in sort of a batch mode. On the PC, I found a nice program called ChangeText (US$10 shareware) that does the same thing as CRLF. When converting the Eudora mailboxes from Mac to PC, I just did the text conversion and made sure each mailbox file ended in .MBX. When converting from PC to Mac, I did the conversion, removed the .MBX filename extension, and added back the Eudora mailbox "Type" (TEXT) and "Creator" (CSOm) codes using an OS X program called FileInfo (freeware). Attachments would be a problem because in the mailbox files, Eudora records down the absolute path to the attachment files and Macs and PCs handle paths differently (e.g. C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora\Attach vs. Macintosh HD:Users:derek:Documents:Eudora Folder:Attachments).

Whoa, time to go to sleep! G'night!