Saturday, October 16, 1999
Hello Christopher,
Saturday, Saturday, October 16, 1999, you wrote:
Christopher J. Trybowski> On Sunday, October 10, 1999 Andrew K. Lovetski wrote:
>> Backup the whole The bat directory with _all_ it's subfolders,
Christopher J. Trybowski> The mail folder is enough, no need to backup the program
files.
>> _and_ the registry portion
>> HKCU\Software\RIT
Christopher J. Trybowski> HKCU\Software\RIT\TheBat!
Christopher J. Trybowski> -- we don't have more Win apps from RIT yet, but this can
change...
>> (Use export feature of RegEdit)
Christopher J. Trybowski> It's useful, but not necessary -- if you, for any reason
don't have
Christopher J. Trybowski> registry information, don't panic -- your mail is still
safe (as well
Christopher J. Trybowski> as accounts configuration, address-book, filters and so on),
-- you'll
Christopher J. Trybowski> just have to do more things to have it back. Be
careful -- the
Christopher J. Trybowski> exported registry contains information about your
registration of TB!
Christopher J. Trybowski> Don't let it be copied by someone, who hasn't paid for TB.
>> When restoring from backup, copy all the folders back exactly to the
>> place where they used to be, then import the .REG file
Christopher J. Trybowski> If you use registry export you have to use the same place
indeed. But
Christopher J. Trybowski> if you want to move your mail folder, you can either
alter the
Christopher J. Trybowski> exported registry file to have new paths, or just not
use registry
Christopher J. Trybowski> export and just re-configure TheBat!'s properties after
reinstall
Christopher J. Trybowski> (note: TheBat!'s properties, NOT mail-base properties
which aren't
Christopher J. Trybowski> stored in registry). An old wish is, to have Bat's
properties also
Christopher J. Trybowski> pulled out of reg.
that I normally try to do per program which is a headache to put back
in. ICQ is a prime example, old odd modems and other odd hardware is a
lot easier to maintain if you have the registry parts when clean
reinstalled...
By the way notice above text from Christopher: this time I left it as
it was: but WHY hasnt it got the single > in front. Its a nuisance
that where there are long prefixed names as sender that this
happens.....
Best regards,
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