Does this also apply to compiling personal scripts from jaws 7.10 to version 8? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JAWS-Users" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 11:03 AM Subject: [jaws-users] For those installing JAWS 8.0
>A couple of things to bear in mind: > > * Never, never, never simply move scripts that ship as part of JAWS (such > as > Default, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, etc.) from one JAWS version > to > another. This applies even when moving from something like 7.0 to 7.10. > Scripts are one of the parts of JAWS that get the most work during a new > version development cycle and scripts are extremely version-specific. If > you > have made changes to any of the JAWS-installed scripts, you will have to > make them again every time you install a new version. Also, Merge does > _not_ > touch script files, so if you ran it and think that your scripts will be > updated, they won't be. > > * Be careful running the merge utility. Personally, I never use it and if > there are files that would otherwise be moved by Merge (such as dictionary > files, for example), I copy them manually. Merge is simply unreliable and > has been known to damage files. Also, in 8.0, if you run Merge and you had > customized Internet Explorer settings in 7.0 or 7.10 (whichever version > you > are merging from), there is a problem whereby the file names were changed > in > 8.0 but the merge utility does not take this into account, so even though > the IE files will be moved, they will not have the correct names and your > personal settings will not be recognized in 8.0. > > -- > Walt Smith - Clearwater, FL > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
