Hi,
On Wednesday, November 09, 2011, at 11:11:28 AM PST, I wrote:
Are there any specific issues/problems I should be aware of in
moving my Bat installation from this Win XP machine to my new Win 7
machine?
I realize it's in bad form to reply to myself, and I apologize for
this, but since no one else replied to this message, someone had to do
it! ;)
Just wanted to offer a little update...
Though I'm still waiting for my new OS software to be delivered
(thought it would arrive last week, but it looks like it'll be Monday
instead), I did decide to at least give this Bat migration a good
test. I'm happy to say that while the backup/restore process wasn't
perfect in every way, it was mostly painless, and now I have a
perfectly working Bat on this new machine.
During my first attempt at fresh installation and restoration from
backup, I ran into a problem that still seems a bit peculiar to me,
but I got around it for the moment: it kept claiming to be unable to
create a Mail folder within the main Bat program folder. At this
point, the installation would abort. I finally tried one of the other
options, and that allowed the installation to continue. Then...
I have several current accounts, along with many folders of [much]
older accounts just used as archives at this point. When I chose
select all (all folders/sub-folders), clicking next would bring me
to a not responding error, and again, the installation would abort.
I tried again (after removing the newly created RIT folder in the
registry), and same problem. So then...
I cleared the registry again, and started another fresh install. This
time, I only selected the two most essential current accounts for
restoration, and finally, everything went smoothly. Once I got that
going, I decided to recreate the two other active accounts one-by-one
from scratch (didn't really need to keep those particular account
archives anyway). Now everything is up and running, and working very
well! :)
I'm still wondering why the new installation had trouble creating a
Mail folder within the main program folder, but this is something I
can investigate at my leisure.
Thanks again to those who offered their help in the other thread.
--
Melissa
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