Re: Using one message base for two TB! installs
Hello Marek, On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:54:47 +0200 GMT (26/07/2004, 05:54 +0700 GMT), Marek Mikus wrote: What I want to do, is have a single folder for email messages, and the other stuff that is normally saved to the TB! data folder, on my server, and both versions of TB! able to access it and write to it... AFAIK this won't work as v1.x and v2.x use different types of message base. MM msgbase format was changed in version 1.42, all next versions until MM 2.12 have the same format. True, but the folder structure is kept in another file now. So any change in one version won't be reflected in the other. That makes it impractical to use a 1.x version and a 2.x version to access the same mail bases. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Signs Your Co-Worker Is A Hacker: Instead of the Welcome voice on AOL, you overhear, Good Morning, Mr./Mrs. President. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.12.02 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 256MB RAM Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Using one message base for two TB! installs
Robert C Wittig said: What I want to do, is have a single folder for email messages, and the other stuff that is normally saved to the TB! data folder, on my server, and both versions of TB! able to access it and write to it... AFAIK this won't work as v1.x and v2.x use different types of message base. -- Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Using one message base for two TB! installs
Hallo Robert, On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:43:42 -0700GMT (24-7-2004, 20:43 +0200, where I live), you wrote: RCW I am now the proud owner of two registered copies of TB! Congrats. RCW What I want to do, is have a single folder for email messages, and the RCW other stuff that is normally saved to the TB! data folder, on my RCW server, and both versions of TB! able to access it and write to it... If both were the same version that would be possible without any problems. Just point both installations to the same directory. However, since v2 TB uses different files to store its folder info (account.flx in v1, account.flb in v2) so any changes in the folder structure you'd make would be made for one version, while the other version wouldn't know about it. Another change is that since 2.12 the account info is store in a file called account.cfn whereas that was account.cfg in the older versions, so any account specific changes wouldn't be picked up by the other version. Finally there's a whole bunch of macros that have slightly changed since v1 so QT's that worked alright in v1 won't do that in v2 and the other way around too. v2 knows some more macros. You'd do best to upgrade your 1.6 to v2, that way you avoid these issues. -- Groetjes, Roelof Disclaimer: Any opinion stated in this message is not necessarily shared by my budgies or rabbits. Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Using one message base for two TB! installs
Hello Roelof, Saturday, July 24, 2004, 10:05:22 AM, you wrote: RO You'd do best to upgrade your 1.6 to v2, that way you avoid these RO issues. Thanks... I'll consider it. One further question... I have a LOT of mail in the 1.6 message base, and cannot simply discard it. Can it be imported into v2, along with the folder structure, address books, etc.? -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ If you have to lie, to sell it... don't. . Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Using one message base for two TB! installs
Hello Robert C Wittig, 25-Jul-2004 01:45, you wrote: One further question... I have a LOT of mail in the 1.6 message base, and cannot simply discard it. Can it be imported into v2, along with the folder structure, address books, etc.? I made a backup (just in case...), and then simply installed v2 over v1.62r. Worked like a charm, and I didn't need my backup. :-) -- Best regards, Alexander I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. -- Lillian Hellman Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Using one message base for two TB! installs
Hallo Robert, On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:45:30 -0700GMT (25-7-2004, 1:45 +0200, where I live), you wrote: RO You'd do best to upgrade your 1.6 to v2, that way you avoid these RO issues. RCW One further question... I have a LOT of mail in the 1.6 message base, RCW and cannot simply discard it. I can understand that. RCW Can it be imported into v2, along with the folder structure, address RCW books, etc.? Yep. You can import everything, you can also copy everything to the mail account directory of your v2 install. Empty that directory first, then copy the stuff. After you start TB again, it'll miss the account.flb and account.cfn and will create the missing files from the predecessors. -- Groetjes, Roelof Disclaimer: Any opinion stated in this message is not necessarily shared by my budgies or rabbits. Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Using one message base for two TB! installs
Hello Roelof, Saturday, July 24, 2004, 4:30:31 PM, you wrote: RO Yep. You can import everything, you can also copy everything to the RO mail account directory of your v2 install. Empty that directory first, RO then copy the stuff. After you start TB again, it'll miss the RO account.flb and account.cfn and will create the missing files from the RO predecessors. Thanks! -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ If you have to lie, to sell it... don't. . Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
