-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hiya Joan,
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:14:06PM -0800, Joan Leach wrote: > I use Webmail, but I've been trying to help a friend that didn't listen to > me...she used Norton SystemWorks 2003 Pro. She tried to update, then > upgrade, when neither worked she asked for advice. I told her to back-up, > she didn't. I tried to remove all of Norton I could, I used ExpressAssist > to back-up her Internet Explorer and Outlook Express stuff. Then I > re-installed her WinXP Home E-Machine (Office had stopped working) and added > Vcom SystemSuite. (skip to bottom for Aid4Mail answer... otherwise I must rant about a random tangent... trying to help friends and it goes all wrong) Ouch... yeah I had a similar nightmare... well.. just in that I a friend kept asking me about Linux and wanted to try it. So I recommended Ubuntu since that's what my dad's been using for a few weeks now without any trouble. He made some space with partition magic and we rebooted into the Ubuntu installer. He became observably distressed when the partitioner wrapper said warning this might erase all of your data etc and wanted to bail out. I tried to calm him down a bit... anyways it just wasn't meant to be I guess... I checked from the command line and partition magic hadn't set the proper type. So I told him look we can just change it here. He said well no I don't think we should go forward because I would never be able to do this on my own... no worries I said... I've done this a million times (and I have). Note to self: if someone doesn't want to continue don't push it ;) After some reassurance. I changed the type of the partition he had made in partition magic to Linux (83)... the swap partition he'd made showed the correct type. Anyways at this point we go back to the installer to format the partition and I think he finally couldn't take the anxiety of losing his windows install if something went awry so we aborted. He goes back into partition magic and it says that the drive has a bad partition table!? WTF... I mean... I've never had parted go wrong on me... I even had the developer ssh into my iBook in 1999 to get the code working on PPC. I imagine it's a partition magic bug... but who knows anyways... so now I feel like an ass... oh well just had to rant about that. ;-) In any case his system still works fine... it's only that he can no longer use partition magic on that drive. Anyone have ideas? All I did was change the type of an existing partition and write the changes. Does partition magic store some non-standard data in or around the partition map or boot sector which parted may have munged? > Alas, when I restored her backed-up IE and OE stuff, those files did stuff > to the Registry that Vcom SS doesn't know how to fix automatically. She's > found a few other areas where things are acting strange, too. So in the > near future I'll be re-doing it again, since she doesn't like Vcom SS. > Other co-workers tell her all she needs is AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware SE, and > SpywareBlaster. Hehe... and then your computer runs slow as molasses on a cold day. ;-) Oh well... best of luck with that. > I can't get her to use Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, nor Linux as no > clerical jobs in Reno mention those programs :-( I was thinking of trying > ThunderBird, but I was afraid the export and import of her HTML mail would > become "garbage text" (her words for it). Some people should just stay with Windows or MacOS... I'm convinced... > Do I have any way to save her Outlook Express mail like this Aid4Mail can > do with zip files by using a Linux LiveCD or some other way or program in > Windows? I offered her a Yahoo sub-mail folder, but she has 3 year's of > mail on her PC by way of Charter.com. Doing it one message at a time isn't > something she wants to do. Have you tried kmailcvt? Or run Aid4Mail through wine. Here's the url for kamilcvt: http://kmailcvt.klik.atekon.de/ It doesn't have as many features as Aid4Mail but should do the job... peace, core - -- There is no Death. /\___/\ Charles Stevenson Only a change of / /\ /\ \ Psychonautified worlds. | ³ù ù³ | hacker. \ _ / Seattle [Sealth] ( ) One truth, love! A4C6 C505 6949 B942 9C36 CEF4 180B 8BAF 13B2 7893 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDokxWGAuLrxOyeJMRAryMAJ4hXmyXtJkN0JrokzUwOmFbx+L2aQCg+Mjs /bxlf9dh5gOoMMDLda3Rx3I= =1NSq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
