Alexander, thanks for the reply. I can't believe that I have to go through all of that just to recover from a simple "upgrade."
I'm not even sure that I'm skilled enough to do all of those things. I'm going to study your message for a while, and then, if I think I can pull it off, I'll give it a try this weekend at home, when I have time enough to do all those things. However, I'm starting to lose confidence in the stability of The Bat. The last time I "upgraded" (to v3.5) I totally lost my address books. Thankfully, with the help of the folks here I was eventually able to recover them. But I don't like the way these troubles keep popping up. Fool me once... :( Jack -----Original Message----- From: "Alexander S. Kunz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Aug 3, 2005 3:09 PM To: Handsome Jack Morrison on TBUDL <[email protected]> Subject: Re: New version of The Bat won't load! Hello Handsome Jack Morrison & everyone else, on 03-Aug-2005 at 20:21 you (Handsome Jack Morrison) wrote: > Does anyone else have any ideas about how I can get my Bat back? I can't remember the previous conversation, but lets try to get it flying again. One of the (albeit cumbersome) methods that has been practiced with success in the past was... 1. Completely back up your old installation (registry keys, installation directory, mail directory - don't use TB's internal backup function, but simply copy the files manually to a safe location). 2. Uninstall the entire program, including the mail directories, and re-install it from scratch, without restoring your backups. 3. Re-create your accounts as they were before (same names, same pathes for mail directories) - one by one. For each account you created, copy the files you backed up before back, then check if the program is still running. This way, you can identify the account thats giving you the headache. 4. When you found the problematic account, try to remove/rename the account configuration files (account.xxx) one by one. You will eventually find the configuration file that is causing the problems. When you found it, do NOT delete the file!!! Preserve it. You can send it to the TB developers with an information about the problems the file caused, so that they can look into it, to avoid such problems in the future. HTH -- Best regards, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981) If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail (Abraham Maslow) ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
