Hello Stefan,

Further to my message yesterday...

>> Now, imagine for a second how it should work in environments where
>> .TBB files are share and nobody knows about sets of colour groups on
>> other machines, where people just agreed to use same names for some
>> groups.
>
> That's certainly an scenario I had not considered.

I still don't understand this scenario, I have to think more about it.

>> Another thingy - restore process. I've restored just folders without
>> global settings. Later, I've either restored colour groups or defined
>> some of them (oftenly used).
>
> Doing partial restores is always risky. Anyway, I can't comment because
> even though I do a backup every night I have never used TB's
> backup/restore facility. Also, because I have no idea where and how the
> colour group 'attribute' of a message is saved.

How about...

-----------------[ WARNING! ]-----------------------
| You have restored XXX messages that are assigned |
| to a Colour Group that currently does NOT exist. |
|                                                  |
| Would you like to set these messages to default  |
| Colour Group <Generic Group>?                    |
|                                                  |
|           YES                NO                  |
|--------------------------------------------------|

>>  Especially, when it's done by mistake.
>
> Options/Preferences/Other Options/Confirmations. Is there perhaps a tick
> box missing there? ;-)
>

How about ...

-----------------[ WARNING! ]-----------------------
| You are about to delete Colour Group 'Name'.     |
|                                                  |
| Would you like to set messages currently assigned|
| to this group, if any, to <Generic Group>?       |             |
|                                                  |
|           YES                NO                  |
|--------------------------------------------------|

-- 
Best regards,

Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain)
Using The Bat! v4.0.14.8 on Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2



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