i am running my new econoAcer with Vista.
How long does it take before the typical 70yo stops hating Vista?
The pictures imbedded in Eudora (terminal version) messages do not appear. is
there a toggle somewhere for this?
i do not seem to have an attachments folder in vista. xp had
At 03:25 PM 07/30/2008 -0400, gerald wrote
i do not seem to have an attachments folder in vista. xp had
programsqualcomeudoraattachments. is there one? i searched the c
drive and cannot find a folder with that name.
The name of the folder is attach--not attachments. Try that.
Sue
i do not seem to have an attachments folder in vista. xp had
programsqualcomeudoraattachments. is there one? i searched the c
drive and cannot find a folder with that name.
I don't know about your other question, but Vista in general does not want
data to be stored under the Program Files
Vista security is rumored to not allow any writes at all to the Program
Files folder. One solution might be to reinstall Eudora to some other folder,
even d:\EUDORA\, for which you have write privileges. I think Vista would
consider Eudora to be a rogue program.
My Eudora V6 puts embedded
If you installed Eudroa using custom, you could create your own data
(attach) folder where you wanted. Otherwise it defaulted to the
appdata folder under c:\documents and settings.
That was under XP.
I have always kept my Eudora as a separate folder as its own root not
in program files.
How would you install any programs if you can't write to that folder?
Mike
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Vista security is rumored to not allow any writes at all to the
Program Files folder
Just curious, why the quotes?
How would you install any programs if you can't write to that folder?
Installation is different. You can install programs into Program Files, but
the programs aren't allowed to write their own data there after
installation.
I had also forgotten something else in my earlier reply, which is why
At 07:43 PM 7/30/2008, mike wrote:
How would you install any programs if you can't write to that folder?
Mike
You run the installation logged on as administrator. But for simple
productivity computing, you never run as administrator. All programs write
settings to the registry and write
Something that is completely locked down is of course secure but of
reduced/little usability. I have my Eudora, with all data and setting files in
the Eudora directory, on a portable hard drive that I can plug into any machine
(in principle) and run my full mail client with all of its
I have my Eudora, with all data and setting
files in the Eudora directory, on a portable hard drive that I can plug
into any machine (in principle) and run my full mail client with all of
its features, address books, filters, and archives, etc. from any
machine that isn't locked down
Sorry,
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