[RBASE-L] - Re: Another Vista account oddity

[Alastair Burr]

I have to say that, like any boy with a new toy, I tried to run before I 
could walk and only read any instructions when there was no other choice!

This may well be a Vista bug but, generally and unlike almost everyone else, 
I like Vista. If I had set up two accounts on day one I doubt there would 
ever have been a problem. If I hadn't wanted to try and save my settings I 
doubt there would have been a problem. If there had been easy to follow 
instructions on how to copy one account's details to another I wouldn't have 
tried to find a way around.

That said, it would appear that if you try and rename accounts you might not 
end up with the correct owner and/or permissions - specifically if the 
accounts are not of the same type.

I think (hope) that my problem is only that I originally installed R:Base as 
an administrator and am now using a newly created ordinary account but some 
folders seem to have a string of numbers for their owner. Rather than try 
and find and edit them all I'll move C:\RBTI\... to another disk as a backup 
and reinstall as if it never existed.

Hopefully, SP1 will be an improvement anyway but these little problems 
usually end up teaching me more rather than just accepting things as they 
are. Luckily, I have kept programs and data on separate drives for so long 
now that even a complete re-install of Vista should only be a minor 
interruption but I'll try and avoid it in case...

Regards,
Alastair.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MikeB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <rbase-l@rbase.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:07 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Another Vista account oddity


Over "550 bug fixes and issues fixed" in the Vista SP1 due out soon...
I don't know if that makes you feel any better or not, but I try, even if 
it is in small ways ;-)





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <rbase-l@rbase.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:27 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Another Vista account oddity


Many thanks, Razzak,

Not much of a mess but I renamed an account in order to keep all the 
settings that I had already and then created a new account with the (then 
unused) original user name.

What that did was to have all the default user folders pointing in the 
wrong places!

So I created two new user accounts from scratch and then deleted the 
older ones - after setting my desktop up as I wanted it again. What that 
seemed to leave was some pointers to the old accounts in various 
directory permissions and owners.

Almost everything works fine but I just suspect that the owner of 
C:\RBTI\... is not what Vista expects which might mean that read/write 
permissions are not correct. I'm hoping that re-installing from the new 
administrator account will put any anomalies right again.

It's clearly not an R:Base problem as everything was fine before. My 
databases accept and return data with no problem - it's just little 
oddities that I suspect are written to C:\RBTI... or maybe C:\Windows\... 
that appear to hiccup.

Regards,
Alastair.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <rbase-l@rbase.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:48 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Another Vista account oddity


At 01:38 PM 2/12/2008, Alastair Burr wrote:

I decided to try re-installing R:Base anyhow so that I got the "proper" 
defaults
for Vista but I get an message saying that I must uninstall R:Base 
first.
Am I right in thinking that using the Vista uninstall is the right way 
to do this?

Alastair,

Before re-installing R:BASE 7.6 for Windows, using the full installer,
you must un-install the previously registered version of R:BASE 7.6 for
Windows.

Use "Uninstall or change a program" option of the Vista Control Panel.

Following the correct procedure, if you still encounter the same 
message,
you may remove the following product key from the registry in order to
re-install R:BASE 7.6 for Windows.

Here's how:

Start | Run | REGEDIT | Main Menu | Edit | Find ...

{1F5DE9EC-C06A-4657-B580-BFF743BBEE84}

You'll find these product keys in "two" places. Once found, carefully
delete them.


Can I presume the same activation keys should still be used for the new 
install?

Yes, as long as you have not changed the Hardware and OS.


Am I right in thinking that I need only install the original full 
installation
and the latest update (RBG76_Update2_01022008) or is there a newer one?


Correct!

The upcoming Update 3 of R:BASE 7.6 for Windows (Build 7.6.3.30214),
currently under Private and R:Developers Beta, is scheduled to be
released on February 14, 2008 (7:56AM EST).


Is the default directory better as C:\RBTI\... or should I put RBTI\... 
in
Program Files these days?


FWIW, C:\RBTI\RBG76 is the recommended folder. You may install the
version anywhere on your PC, if you wish.

Hope that helps!

Very Best R:egards,

Razzak.

P.S.
Just curious ... what did you do on your Vista to result in such a mess?




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