[CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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 programsqualcomeudoraattachments. is there one? i searched the c drive and cannot find a folder with that name. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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 folder (which is very sensible, by the way). If Eudora has been updated correctly for Vista, it will put them somewhere else. The most likely candidate is somewhere in your user folder, like AppData. You may also have a folder named ProgramData that you could look at. Is there no info in the help or on their web site? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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 pictures (.jpg files, generally) in an \Embedded\ folder, not in the \Attach\ folder. It's in the Eudora folder as well. I just run Eudora from a portable hard drive and it doesn't require any registry entries to run, at least in Win2K. Fred Holmes At 03:25 PM 7/30/2008, gerald wrote: 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 programsqualcomeudoraattachments. is there one? i searched the c drive and cannot find a folder with that name. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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. If however you are using the newer Eudora (thunderbird collaboration) they default to appdata just like Outlook does. Stewart At 02:51 PM 7/30/2008, you 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. I don't know about your other question, but Vista in general does not want data to be stored under the Program Files folder (which is very sensible, by the way). If Eudora has been updated correctly for Vista, it will put them somewhere else. The most likely candidate is somewhere in your user folder, like AppData. You may also have a folder named ProgramData that you could look at. Is there no info in the help or on their web site? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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 legacy programs that try to write to Program Files should still work. The data they try to write there gets put into a virtual store, which is actually a real folder in the user's space. For example, IrfanView does this, and its data ends up (on my system) in Users\Chris\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\IrfanView. When IrfanView tries to read/write in Program Files, Vista will quietly use the virtual store instead. A lot of people forget (or don't know) that Program Files was not writable under XP either--if you ran as a standard user. But since nobody did, it wasn't an issue. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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 data to a data directory. MS has now gotten to the point where no program can simply be copied from one machine to another (or carried on a portable hard drive) that uses Vista run according to the nominal security rules. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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 features, address books, filters, and archives, etc. from any machine that isn't locked down. Thus, in my circumstance, having a desktop machine at every location that I'm likely to want to use e-mail, I can haul around a simple USB hard drive and no more. It works just fine on my Win2K and WinXP machines. I think I'm going to find myself out of luck on a Vista machine. Sort of like having a gun in one's home for self defense, but the gun has to be disassembled, with a trigger guard lock locked in place, and in a locked cabinet, with no ammunition stored within reach (or whatever the new DC rules are). Fred Holmes At 05:44 PM 7/30/2008, Chris Dunford wrote: Vista security is rumored to not allow any writes at all to the Program Files folder Just curious, why the quotes? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Eudora in Vista
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, I guess I'm not following. If you can run it from a portable drive, then presumably the Eudora folder is on that drive and not in Program Files, in which case there's no problem. What am I missing? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
