Thank you Marck, Andrew, Diego, and Thomas. I greatly appreciate the response from all of you.
My problem is mostly solved, with three minor elements (well, one not so minor), which I'll describe below. First, I think each of you had more or less the same solution, albeit with slightly different approaches. What I did was to create new accounts, entering the names of the old accounts exactly as they existed. This did indeed restore my access to the accounts, with all their archived emails (literally in the low tens of thousands), along with all my sorting rules. There was great joy and celebration here, dancing and hurrahing, and would have been fireworks too were this not New York City and would that not have brought police to my door. (Oddly, I had a perplexing temporary glitch in that two of my three basic accounts worked perfectly, but in one I could only receive messages but not send messages. So far as I could tell, the General and Transport settings were the same in all three accounts. I was baffled and frustrated awhile, fiddled about, and then suddenly, for no reason I could discern, the problem seemed to disappear. Who am I to question such gifts?) Anyway, the problems that remain are these: 1. (And most important) My address books are still gone, and though I have futzed about some, I haven't been able to restore them. 2. (Next, minor, but a bit of an annoyance) When I go to Reply to a message now, a small (resizeable) horizontal window containing the original message opens above the Reply window itself. This was not the case with my old installation, and again I have searched for the remedy -- some way to eliminate it -- but can't find it. 3. TB still cheerily awaits my registration and announces same, along with elapsed day count, each time I open it. As background: I believe I started with TB somewhere around 1.38 or 1.42 or so, and last upgraded to, and then used for years (till now) 1.48d. In upgrading my system last week, I took the hard drive out of my old machine and placed it in an external enclosure, connected it to my new machine as a secondary hard drive by USB. But since the old drive worked on Windows ME and the new one on Windows XP, I can't run any of the programs on the old drive. I installed anew all my significant software onto my new drive, then copied the data files from the old drive over the virginal data files on the new drive. All worked splendidly, except for TB -- which prompted my rejoining TUBDL after years and posting my dilemma and request for help, which you all so graciously answered. I do not think I have the years-old registration key stored anywhere. As I originally said, I'd be happy to relicense, or upgrade to V. 3 and buy a new license, whatever is appropriate. I'd be interested in your offer, Thomas, to walk me through the upgrade to 2.0 or 3.0, assuming I could do that without jeopardizing my current access to my files and the functionality of my present version. Anyway, that's as complete a picture as I can give. My current greatest need is to get my address book and groups back. So any help there, and with the other two more minor questions, would be appreciated. Again, thank each and every one of you for yhour swift and generous help, which did indeed get me up and mostly running again. I am grateful. Be well, Jerry --------------------------------My Original Post, by Webmail, Appears Below JM> Hi, JM> I have been using TB 1.48d (the Christmas edition) on a Windows ME system happily and without a hitch for years. A week ago, I changed from my old computer to a new machine with Windows XP, JM> reinstalled my software and migrated my data. JM> Everything went successfully but The Bat! JM> The Bat! no longer works. It thinks it is a brand new program, telling me I have X number of days left in this trial period, and will not find or recognize any of my old folders, which are JM> sitting right there in TB's directory. JM> I am now unable to gain access to my folders in TB, along with their several thousands of acrhived personal and business emails, or my sorting rules or anything else. This is a professional JM> catastrophe. I am using webmail on an emergency basis, which is better than a stone and chisel and a carrier condor, but not too much (or so it feels). JM> I know there is a relatively simple way to correct this, but those archived nstructions exist in one of the folders that the newly reinstalled TB will not recognize and thus I can't get at them. JM> I have done a search in TBUDL archives, but can't find anything. JM> Please, I'm willing to relicense the program. I happy to download and purchase the newest version. Anything to make TB functional for me again. JM> Does anyone have access to the magic bullet, or a simple three-step miraculous procedure? Can you tell me how to get my beloved Bat back, along with all its records and many marvelous sorting JM> rules? JM> Thank you immensely (he said, sinking slowly into the dark pit of webmail). JM> Be well, JM> Jerry JM> ________________________________________________ JM> Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: JM> http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html -- Best regards, Jerrold mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
