Re: Transferring The Bat to new computer on 2 computer network
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:28 -0500, Achdut18 achdu...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best way to set up The Bat on a new computer when that computer is attached to a home network that has 2 computers running The Bat? Hello, Backup on the old laptop with all the account settings, install a copy of TB! on the new one and instead of creating an account, restore. Cheers Z. Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Transferring The Bat to new computer on 2 computer network
Hello Hajdú, Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 1:04:03 AM, you wrote in response to my question, What is the best way to set up The Bat on a new computer when that computer is attached to a home network that has 2 computers running The Bat? the following: HZ Backup on the old laptop with all the account settings, install a copy HZ of TB! on the new one and instead of creating an account, restore. Thank you very much. I do have a few more questions that probably seem very elementary: I am able to create a backup file. I presume that is the .tbk file. However, I need more specific guidance about installing a copy of TB on the new laptop and the restore. Do I download a copy of TB from the Ritlabs website? If not, what file am I copying from the old laptop to the new laptop for the installation? Do you recommend using the most recent version, or will I avoid headaches by using the version that I have without upgrading? Then, will I be prompted to restore during the install process, or do I wait until after that process is complete to then restore? If I wait until after the install is complete, do I then just go to Tools/Restore, check all the boxes and then highlight the .tbk file after clicking on add? -- Avi Avram Sacks Using The Bat 4.0.18 on Windows XP Pro SP3; soon on Windows 7 Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Transferring The Bat to new computer on 2 computer network
Hello tb...@thebat., Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 4:45:31 PM, you wrote: A Hello Hajdú, A Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 1:04:03 AM, you wrote in response to my A question, What is the best way to set up The Bat on a new computer A when that computer is attached to a home network that has 2 computers A running The Bat? the following: HZ Backup on the old laptop with all the account settings, install a copy HZ of TB! on the new one and instead of creating an account, restore. A Thank you very much. I do have a few more questions that probably A seem very elementary: A I am able to create a backup file. I presume that is the .tbk file. Yes A However, I need more specific guidance about installing a copy of TB A on the new laptop and the restore. Do I download a copy of TB from the A Ritlabs website? If not, what file am I copying from the old laptop A to the new laptop for the installation? Do you recommend using the A most recent version, or will I avoid headaches by using the version A that I have without upgrading? If you still have the .msi installation file, you would run that to install. You would then also install the international pack, intpack.msi This seems safer than using a new version from the Ritlabs website, but if you don't have the old install file, you would download the latest. A Then, will I be prompted to restore during the install process, or do I A wait until after that process is complete to then restore? A If I wait until after the install is complete, do I then just go to A Tools/Restore, check all the boxes and then highlight the .tbk file A after clicking on add? There is no prompting. After installing, you just go to A Tools/Restore, check all the boxes and then highlight the .tbk file A after clicking on add?. -- Paul - Using The Bat! v4.2.36.4 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ...There's no time except right this second - everything else is a memory or a hope - Merlin Mann, 43folders.com Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
RE: Transferring The Bat to new computer on 2 computer network (the altF2 command)
Thanks, Paul, Your notes will be very useful. One question I forgot to ask: Hajdu recommended in response to my questionWhat is the best way to set up The Bat on a new computer when that computer is attached to a home network that has 2 computers running The Bat? that I use a backup of TB from the old laptop rather than from the host pc on which TB is running. That makes sense, particularly because two filters and subfolders were created on the old laptop that are not on the host PC's version of TB. However, I have also observed that the alt F2 command (to download e-mail from all accounts at once) does not work on the laptop, even though both the old laptop and the host PC are running the same version of TB. Since we have about a dozen different e-mail accounts, it is desirable to be able to download all at once. Is there any way I can fix this problem without installing a backup of the host pc on to the old pc and new pc? -- Avi Avram Sacks Chicago Using The Bat ver. 4.0.18 on MS XP Pro SP3 and soon Windows 7. Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Address book help
Fellow list members, My wife's laptop just died and I have tried (almost successfully) to get the new laptop up and running the way the old one was. I had been backing up the old laptop using Carbonite and also using the Windows 7 backup utility backing up to an external HDD thru a USB port. Neither Carbonite nor the MS backup was saving everything but by performing a restore from the MS backup first and then from the Carbonite backup (which took a couple of days to complete), I was able to retrieve what I assumed to be most of the TB! files. Since the .exe file was never backed up (apparently neither Carbonite nor the MS backup saves those types of files) I had to re-install TB! from a copy I retained the last time we upgraded (to 4.0.38). After the install I added her name as an account and voila!, everything appeared to be back the way it was on the old laptop. All of her folders and emails were there. It was only later that I learned that new contacts added to the address book are not retained the next time TB! is started. In addition, there's a mysterious blank contact at the top of the list which can be deleted (it takes several seconds to perform the delete) but will be there again the next time TB! is started. I have searched both the HDD backup files and the Carbonite backup files to no avail. I cannot find her original .abd file in either of those two locations so I am at a loss to even understand from where the file materialized in the first place and yet, there it is. This next point perhaps should be addressed to TBOT but it may have some bearing here. The new laptop's HDD has two folders; one named PROGRAM FILES and one named PROGRAM FILES(x86). Each folder contains a TB! folder but the TB.exe is in the PFx86 folder. All of the .abd files are in the PF folder. I copied her .abd file to the PF(x86) folder and selected it to be opened while I was in in the address book window. I wound up with two identical address books, both of which MALfunction exactly the same. I don't know if it makes any difference but the old laptop was running XP and was upgraded to Windows 7 while the new laptop came with Windows 7 already installed. Does an OEM Windows 7 have two PF folders? If there's someone out there who has been able to follow this convoluted description and might have some ideas, I'd appreciate all the help I can get. -- TIA, Jack LaRosa mailto:jlar...@charter.net Sticking with with The Bat! ver: 4.0.38 for now. Operating? with Windows XP Pro ver 5 build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
