I was given the task of searching a few hundred archived Eudora mailbox files today for a certain email address. Didn't want to install Eudora on a system so I just opened the files with Notepad. The problem I ran into was that Windows Search wouldn't search the .mbx files.
So I needed to quickly change all the .mbx files in the folder to .txt extension so that Windows Search could scan them. Thought VBScript would be a good way; however, found that it would take too much code to just do a simple task.
Instead I went back to the command line and used the following command on the folder:
ren *.mbx *.txt
This allowed me to quickly find the requested email data using Windows Search.
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