-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Sat, 23 Oct 2004, @ @ at 00:31:44 -0500, when Lawrence Johnson wrote:
> I had to reload Windows OS (Win98SE) today. I make it a practice to keep > applications off the C: drive whenever possible, so that it is mostly > a matter of getting the registry updated correctly. Yea, I find it fine also. The OS on one partition, programs on another one, and files/"documents" on a third one (a "Saint Trinity"). The more "independence" of these three, the better. > So, I have the data files for TheBat! intact on separate drive. I'm > currently a version of TheBat! on another machine in order to pick up > email. > I haven't been able to figure out how to re-install TheBat! and make > the original data files accessible. After re-install, TheBat! asks > for a new account to be setup. I would just as soon use all the old > account information but I haven't found how I can direct TheBat! to > use it. You can direct it best by TB registry (.reg) file. If you save this entry regularly, then it will contain the last "snap" of your TB settings. This .reg file will direct TB to your accounts (in Mail folder), and these accounts will tell the further settings, specific for accounts, folders, templates etc. > Has anyone had to do something like this and can recommend an > approach. I do it daily (and often more than once). I also keep Mail folder on a separate partition, and my TB folder also is not on default position. For getting TB's registry entries faster I use a batch file with this command inside: regedit /e "X:\Mail\tb.reg" hkey_current_user\software\rit and it just spits out tb.reg entry in my Mail folder on X partition. I also am backing up entire TB folder, since it is much faster and easier to just restore its last state then to install it again. Folder Mail is also backed up, so if I have to restore all this TB machinery, I have to do just 3 quick steps: 1) restoring Mail folder(s) 2) restoring TB folder 3) running tb.reg and then just firing up TB. All my old settings are there, alive and well, exactly as I had left them last time, and no any additional "tweaking". For backup I use ARJ (the command line utility, free for personal use) via simple batch files. EG.: regedit /e "X:\Mail\tb.reg" hkey_current_user\software\rit # tbreg.bat arj a -r -u e:\bkup\mail.arj X:\Mail\*.* # mail.bat arj a -r -u "e:\bkup\thebat.arj" "x:\TheBat\*.*" # tb.bat - -- Mica PGP key uploaded at: <http://pgp.mit.edu/> once just before breakfast :happypiglet: [Earth LOG: 52 day(s) since v3.0 unleashing] OS: Windows 98 SE Micro Lite Professional IVa Enterprise Millennium and for TB sometimes Libranet (Linux) 2.8.1, via Cross Over Office -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFBelEP9q62QPd3XuIRAsiPAJ9LKKGENEmaZWz8IFlr/LZnraMmfgCgkjjj fCwH0AzPit4m2aK7FXFRQWI= =FmXH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
