Glenn,
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:17:02 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Also, big warning for those who spend hours finding links: At first it
>> looks like Hotlist.mgr was working far better than ever before. So I
>> trusted it again today, to properly allocate the new links collected
>> [which always appear at the bottom of the old list] to the correct
>> areas. Instead I lost over 20 hours worth of blood, sweat and tears;
>> all the new links disappeared. :<
> So... did you then restore your "back-up" copy???
> What's that you say???
> You didn't make a back-up copy _first_???
> Shame on you..... Bad beta testing procedure.<vbg>
I had previously tested Hotlist Mgr. I'd tested it with just links
I added from scratch with 1.6b version; I'd added some cut & paste stuff
from one of my older well used hotlists, and that tested out fine,
organizing and losing nothing. I'd been assured that the new manager
wouldn't have limitations in the number of items which could be handled;
that would make sense, since e-mail addresses are being added to it now
too [can't import them to a quoted response, a "forward" or anything
like that ... but it is a way to at least save them]. I've regained a
few of the links, but lost a search string I can't precisely remember
and I wasn't yet finished with so I'm doing a bit of bumbling around
right now.
> But seriously, I've yet to try the "new" hotlist manager.
> I'll try it and see if the same thing happens to mine.
I know one thing: From here on out, until someone says whatever
was/is wrong can't possibly be wrong now, I'll be pulling up my own
external editor and putting the listings in the right places in the new
hotlist. In fact, since Hotlist Manager doesn't alphabetize anything on
the list, I mail well be doing cut & paste to file to be sorted and then
cut and paste back into hotlist manager. Yes, I use keywords so I can
search for them, but how much easier it would be if all the search
engine stuff I've saved was grouped together under the beginning keyword
of "search" etc. I admit some of the stuff in my hotlist is junk, but
generally I use it as an essential tool.
l.d.
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