Dear TBUDL,
Thank you all for your comments, suggestions & response to my
plight. This is a longish post as I've tried to compile all
your comments & my responses into one post as I thought it
would be more efficient.
Included in your email stamped Monday, September 25, 2000, 12:36 PM re: Digest
(09/25/2000 23:35) Special Issue (#2000-342)
you wrote:
From: "Marck D. Pearlstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
TBUDL> [...] TB is capable of removing folders, but only with instruction
TBUDL> and confirmation. You actually have to delete the folder in TB and say
TBUDL> "Yes" to the confirmation box that comes up.
KS>> Jan, are _all_ of them gone?
TBUDL> If /any/ are gone then either you told TB to remove them (somehow) or
TBUDL> an external influence has removed the folders. Your mail has gone
TBUDL> because the folders have gone/been moved at an OS level. Use Windows
TBUDL> Explorer and the Windows "Find Files" functions to locate the missing
TBUDL> folders / *.tbb files. Check the system recycle bin - the missing
TBUDL> folders could be there. [...]
Jan's response:
Mark, as a Bat expert you are undoubtedly right but I don't
know what I did to get the effects you describe, i.e. asked &
confirmed because all I did was left click on the folder &
the "#" changed from whatever it was to "0". Maybe it was a
strange setting of some kind but I must say that I couldn't
tell you what it might have been. There was nothing in the
system recycle bin either.
From: Tony Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Every time I click on a folder all the files in it
> disappear.
> Last time this sort of thing happened to me, I had two thebat.exe
> files on my system and I was using the wrong one.
Jan's response:
Hmmmmm. This could be something. When I looked at the
directory structure in Explorer, I noticed a very strange
situation: The trash folder had a subset [ nested ] folders
made up of all the InBox folders that I had created. Is this
what you mean? I had only one TheBat.exe file on the machine,
however.
From: Karin Spaink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [...] you may need to take
> look at your registry, and see whether TB's entries point at
> the correct directories. Ming-Li's recent contributions
> about "Dual boot" might be helpful.
Jan's response:
Karin, as a rule I don't like messing with Win'98 registry
but I will look @ Mink-Li's "Dual boot" posts for guidance.
I've learned the hard way evaluating a lot of software -- I
prefer supporting shareware authors than large corps -- to
back up where possible. In this case I set The Bat! *not* to
delete msgs from the server so I didn't lose anything except
time.
In the meantime, it was all getting a little too weird for me
so I deleted the The Bat! Directory & all it's contents. Then
I re-installed. Didn't re-start the system in between,
however. The only strange thing I observe with this new
installation is that *all* templates are now gone -- standard
& quick. Now that I understand the templates in principal,
I'm just rebuilding as I go.
From: "Marck D. Pearlstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You might start by checking that the current root folder for TB is
> pointing to the correct location. What OS are you using? Could this
> be a permissions thing?
Jan's response:
Marck, I'm not sure I know what you mean by this so if you
can give me specific instructions, I'll do it.
From: Diana Calder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [...] did you by any chance
> install version 1.46d of The Bat! over top of a previous version
> installation?
Jan's response:
no.
One separate comment: it might be beneficial to users to
provide a way for Windows to remove TheBat! in an orderly way
or to provide your own un-install program in case it's
needed.
Again, Thanks all.
--
Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield, CT USA
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