OK - Now I'm in official panic mode!
I have uninstalled all Service Packs in reverse order (ie: SP6 then SP5....)
I have uninstalled Protel99SE
I have re-installed Protel99SE
I have re-installed SP6
The problem is still here.
Protel still insists on importing the DDB I'm attempting to open into a DDB.
Arrrrggh!
One interesting thing I did note during the re-install was that the
un-install was smart enough to leave my cutom buttom BMPs alone. I had
backed them up anyway.
Maybe it comes down to the ODBC drivers......(shudder)
LINDEN DOYLE
Product Development Engineer
Zener Electric Pty Ltd
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-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Harland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Protel EDA Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, 21 May 2001 10:32
Subject: Re: [PEDA] My protel won't load DDBs
><snip>
>> I guess there is nothing for it now but to remove and reinstall
>Protel.
>>
>> One final request for advise though....
>> When removing Protel do I have to uninstall the Service Pack first
(or
>> all service packs individually - SP4, 5 & 6) or is simply uninstallinf
>> Protel99SE sufficient to exorcise all Protel demons from my system?
>>
>> LINDEN DOYLE
>
>I would strongly recommend uninstalling SP6 first, and Protel 99 SE last.
>And if you have installed yet other SPs, then uninstall them as well, and
in
>the reverse sequence to which they were installed. That is, uninstall SP6
>first, then uninstall SP5, then SP4, then SP3, then Protel 99SE (which
>incorporates SP2 within itself) last of all.
>
>To get the "cleanest" possible de-installation, I would follow up by
>deleting any residual files from the Protel folder and/or the Windows
folder
>(obviously, I am referring to Protel files in the case of the latter
>folder). (If you want, you can make backup copies of configuration files,
>and store these *elsewhere*, before you commence uninstalling the SPs and
>Protel 99 SE.) And if you are really keen, know what you are doing, and are
>careful enough, I would even suggest scanning the registry for Protel
>entries and purging those as well (after completing the un-install
>procedures).
>
>One thing that can save you some time is to re-install Protel 99 SE, and
>then re-install *just* SP6 (without reinstalling any of the previous SPs),
>as SP6 (like its predecessors) is cumulative in nature.
>
>I am sorry to hear that purging the configuration files from the Windows
>folder did not fix your problem, so I hope that re-installing Protel 99 SE
>does sort things out.
>
>Regards,
>Geoff Harland.
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