Hello Ludovic! On Friday, December 23, 2005, 7:34 AM, you wrote:
> I upgraded (well, it's an upgrade as I don't see any difference > between the Home and the Pro version right now) on december and > wondered how to activate OTFE. Can someone explain that to me? It's > not on the new help file. (The new help file was written before OTFE > and Customise, among other new features, were completely finished.) Roelof just got through telling how on TBUDL. I saved the message--here's a copy-and-paste from Roelof's explanation: -------- However, when you want to switch to OTFE (On The Fly Encryption), it's not that easy. TB cannot encrypt an existing unencrypted message base, It can only start with OTFE while you're still without message base. What this means is that in order to switch to OTFE, you need to make a full TB-style back-up. Afterwards you need to uninstall TB. And delete/move your message base. (Last time I uninstalled TB left the message base in it's place, just as I think it should) Next you install TB. At the end of the install or the start of TB's first run, it'll ask you about OTFE and you enable that, the password you're giving then is important, because without that password your data are lost forever. Amd on the question whether you'd like to create a new account or restore from backup, you restore from backup. After restoring from backup you quit TB and restart it (otherwise your restored preferences won't be loaded). That's about it. Oh yes. When you're using TB in multiple user accounts in Windows, you need to realize that to change another account than you used for the uninstalling from plain to OTFE you'll need to remove the full HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat! tree from your registry in that account. Because the uninstall routine only deletes that for the active account during install. (Yes, actually that means that you don't have to uninstall. Just a backup and removing both the message base and the proper registry entries will prompt TB to ask about OTFE too.) And since I've typed this story for the umptieth time, I'm creating a QT for it. ---------- :) HTH -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 3.64.01 Christmas Edition on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
