Acknowledgements to Rein Ciarfella who wrote on Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 17:10:
>Up until maybe three days ago I had PM correctly configured to launch and >get me online at the same time. I know I messed with the check boxes in >Setup/Mail Schedulings and Locations/Schedulings tab around that time. >I've tried to reset things without success. Now I get an error message >that I need to have a connection running first (or words to that effect). > I tried deleting the System/Prefs file and the PowerMail User Prefs file >(in the PowerMail Files folder) and it did reset those settings to >default, but I'm still getting the same error. > >I've tried my other Internet programs and they still do launch TCP and >connect, so it's not within my Internet Control Panel or the TCP Panel. > >I think I'd like to reset PowerMail to it's original settings throughout, >enter my purchase key and start from scratch again. How do I do that? >Must I uninstall and reinstall the entire app? When I deleted the User >Prefs file my key was still there and PM launched as usual. I've long >since copied down all my settings in a separate file (including my >purchase code), so that's no problem. I just wondered what file I have >to delete for PM to reset completely. In other words, which file >contains the user code? > >RC > >Rein Ciarfella >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >AIMM=rcsails >OS 9.1 (holdout) >PowerMail 4.2.1 > > > > Rein, If you want to start from scratch again just create a new user environment. I have a stand-by user environment to which I switch for troubleshooting purposes (also archiving). File>Database>New user environment. You can always import any mail data and settings you may want from the old environment. HTH, David Gallanders B&W G3 | OS 9.2.2 |
