On Sunday, September 24, 2000, 10:51:32 AM, A. wrote:
ML>> TB would ask you for the location where you would like to store
ML>> your mail. (This happens only to new installation.)
Quoting my own message just to remind you I was talking about a "new
installation"), as katsmeow needs to do on the new Win2k partition.
> This has not been my experience. The first time I moved my mail
> directory, I shut down TB!, moved the directories, restarted TB!.
> Of course the accounts were not there.
You didn't change the "Working Directory" in the registry, did you?
Please allow me to quote my own message one more time:
> Under ideal condition, you only need to change one thing in the
> registry manually. Under the
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat!
>
> key, find an entry called "Working Directory", and change it to
> reflect the new location.
That's the key. If you don't change the "Working Directory" entry in
the registry, of course TB couldn't find your new mail location.
Once that's done, no need to touch the
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat!\Users Depot" key.
Of course, the above is based on the assumption that all your mail
is stored together under one root (as TB's default does), and you
move the whole thing to the new location. In that situation, the
"Dir #n" entries under the "Users Depot" sub-key is left empty.
Changing the "Working Directory" suffice.
> The other two times I moved my mail folders, I closed TB!, moved
> the folders, edited the HKCU/Software/RIT/The Bat!/Users Depot
> entry values appropriately and only then did I restart TB! to see
> things working as if nothing had happened.
I'm not saying this won't work. It should. I'm just saying it
shouldn't be necessary. In fact, I've just tried it twice (moving to
a new location and back), and each time all I need to change is the
"Working Directory" entry. And even that is unnecessary when doing a
new installation, for TB would ask for it. At least that's my
experience with migrating from Win98 to Win2k.
--
Best regards,
Ming-Li
The Bat! 1.47 Beta/5 | Win2k SP1
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