Hi Yuki,
24 February 2001, Yuki Taga wrote:
YT> Saturday, February 24, 2001, 5:25:41 AM, Dierk wrote:
>>> However, I've noticed that The Bat puts an awful lot of stuff in the
>>> system registry. I'm not an expert on how the registry works, so I'm
>>> wondering, if I do what I'm planning to do, with The Bat still work the
>>> same way it always has, or will I end up having to re-install it to get
>>> it to work on the new system?
See below:
DH>> BTW, this is one of the problems that stir me away from Win2k leaving
DH>> me with Win95.
YT> I have not tried this with TB!, but I've done it successfully with *many*
YT> different programs (migrating from Win to NT or 2000), and it's never
YT> failed me yet.
YT> 1) Make a complete copy of your TB! installation as is.
YT> 2) Install TB! on your new system fresh.
YT> 3) Go to the TB! installation folder on your new system and nuke everything
YT> except the root folder itself. Ignore any and all error messages or
YT> warnings.
The installation folder and the Mail folder are two quite different
things.
YT> 4) Now copy everything from your old installation into the new installation
YT> folder. I would guess this gives you correct registry information (from
YT> the new install), and all your old e-mail and folder hierarchy from your
YT> old installation.
But you need the old entries for The Bat! to work the same as it did
before. Otherwise you need to re-configure lots of stuff. Only the
paths to the mail folders etc. may need to be changed, but this is
quite simple to do - see below.
YT> As I say, I've yet to try this with TB!, so I don't know if there is
YT> anything unusual about TB! that would foil this, but I suspect not. Anyone
YT> else? Not too much additional work, really.
I have moved my mail from machine to machine and disk to disk (and
path to path) many times, without problems. I have about 600 Mb of
compressed mail comprising about 75000 mails in multiple accounts
dating back many years. It doesn't seem to matter the source or
destination Windows version. (98-2K; 2K-ME etc.)
This is how I do it.
1) I use regedit to export HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT to a .reg
file, called (e.g.) thebat.reg which I save (e.g.) in the root of the
mail folder
2) If moving the mail to a new machine I install The Bat on the it,
first.
3) I copy my entire mail folder to the new location. If that's the
same as the one The Bat Setup creates, I just overwrite it.
4) I edit thebat.reg in the new location with notepad, using the
Replace feature, to change all references to the previous path of the
Mail folder (also the installation folder, attachments folder etc.) to
the relevant new path (if they are different, of course).
5) I double-click the thebat.reg in Windows Explorer, thus overwriting
all default registry settings with the ones from the other
machine/drive/path (path values, suitably edited).
Running The Bat in the new location looks and behaves exactly like
the old one.
N.B. I don't use Account-specific Network settings and I have a
permanent connection. If you are using automatic Dial-up and moving
from machine to machine, you may have to tweak these setting after
doing this, because Dial-up devices may be different on a different
machine.
BTW: I also run The Bat on my laptop, simultaneously, by doing the
same as the above, but switching off the Delete on Server option in
all accounts. The mail is still also received by my main desktop
machine, which has Delete on Server after 14 days set for all
accounts. This way, I can receive & send mails from the laptop. I have
to Bcc all mails to myself, of course, or I wouldn't have copies of
mail I sent from the laptop, on the main machine.
If I need, any time, I can delete the encrypted drive containing the
mail, on the laptop, make a new encrypted drive mapping & start again,
to keep them in sync. - without any risk of losing mails, which are
stored on (and backed up from) the main machine.
Works for me :-) But I can't guarantee there no features, that I don't
use, which may get screwed up, using the above process.
All the best,
Ray mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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