Mary Bull wrote:
Sorry to hear that didn't work.
Well it wasn't because we didn't try.
Try renaming the "thebat.exe" in your folder for The Bat! Then ask Add/Remove to do a Repair with the Set-Up Wizard. Sometimes that has worked for me. Or, as Stuart suggested, if you haven't already tried that, you could rename the Mail subfolder in your TB! folder. My TB! folder's path is C:\Program Files\The Bat! . Alternatively, you could rename the folder itself--something like "Old The Bat!" . Then do a completely fresh MSI install, and after that--if it will load--start moving the files from "Old The Bat!" .
For what it's worth, the OFTE installation of The Bat! doesn't have a mail directory under C:\Program Files\The Bat!. Instead there is a folder under C:\Documents and Settings\Perry Nelson\Application Data called The Bat! Pwd where the folder and message base is located. When I renamed that folder and tried to open The Bat!, I got an error message saying, "Cannot open file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Perry Nelson\Application Data\The Bat! Pwd\ikey.id.' The system cannot find the path specified." But at least doing that didn't produce cascading AVs.
Renaming thebat.exe to old_thebat.exe and running the repair didn't work either. Same cascading AVs.
This situation would lead me to offer a word of caution to potential users of the OFTE option. If you have a situation such as I do, you have no way to recover your messages, since even if you have a backup, it is useless because it is encrypted. Another down side of OFTE is that you can't move folders across account boundaries in your message base. (That bug has already been logged by the way.) What would be nice is for Ritlabs to produce a decryption tool for a backed up file that could be used outside of The Bat! if you know the password for the encrypted backup file.
(Goes without saying that TB! should be closed whenever you are renaming or moving files and/or folders manually.)
Thanks for the warning, but since I can't get it to open, any change I make will *have* to be when it's closed.
Keep us posted, please!
Consider yourselves "posted." Unless someone else has some other magic you think I should try, I guess I'll consider this the technogods' way of telling me that it's time for me to take a break from The Bat! and perfect the art of using Thunderbird instead.
-- Regards, Perry ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.80.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
