On Thu 23-Jun-05 5:07am -0500, Allie Martin wrote: > On Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 2:09:17 AM [GMT -0500], Roelof Otten > wrote: > >> Those items are not lost. A full back-up >> includes registry setting, >> filters, account properties, address book, files associated with >> smartbat and messages. IIRC customization isn't included with the >> back-up, so save your tbuser.def separately. Note that the files >> associated with smartbat are restored encrypted when you're switching >> to OTFE, so when you prefer one of them to be plain unencrypted text >> (like a cookie file) you'd better save it seperately. > > Additionally, on occasion, TB!'s backup system doesn't go well and > there's a problem with restoring, so I always > recommend doing a separate > backup of the original system, which is to copy the installation > directory to another location and export the registry key to file. > > If OTFE doesn't work, or the TB! backup doesn't restore, it's no problem > since the TB! installation is backed up in another way.
That issue has bothered me, Allie. My "another way" is to run a batch file that saves the full TB registry tree and separately creates two '7z' compressed files (program tree and mail-store tree). That mail-store is encrypted by TB! (once I have OTFE operational). Won't that be unusable once I install plaintext TB! (in case TB!'s backup won't restore)? It sure would be more comforting if Ritlabs had a little utility to convert a mail-store from encrypted to plaintext with my OFTE password. -- Best regards, Bill The Wounded Bat 3.5.30 Pro BayesIt! 0.8.0 Release X-Ray 1.4.0.0 XP Pro SP2 POP3 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.30 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
