I'm now about ready to throw this laptop against the wall, out a window, into a deep well, just anywhere away from me.
I still can't restore my email and files by backing up from my desktop and restoring on the laptop. I find Vista completely non-intuitive and so different from XP as to be unrecognizable. I've been near tears countless times because they've made Vista so much "easier" that someone like me, who messed around in DOS and every version of Windows up until now, can't do anything. I swear my blood pressure is rising. How do I completely uninstall The Bat! so I can start over? Every time I think I have it uninstalled, the reinstall brings back all my files/folders, etc. How do I get it back to a point where there never was a Bat! on my system? Once there, how do I, when installing The Bat! anew, set up the accounts so that they will actually receive all the currently-existing email and attachments? Right now, the emails are all there, but it won't let me open any attachments. This is in my secondary account (work email). My primary account is fine. Please, when you respond, go step-by-step. I feel like a ninny and need to be talked to like one, I guess. Yours in complete frustration, Jeanny House On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:44:05 -0400, "Chris W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Jeanny House @ 2007-7-03 4:29:20 PM > "Installation problems with Vista" > <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > My new laptop arrived yesterday. It has Vista, and I don't know if > > that's the problem. I'm trying to install The Bat! on it. It > > installs just fine. I've backed up TB! on my desktop and am trying > > to load the data into the laptop by using the "restore" function. I > > have two accounts, one personal and one for work. I keep getting a > > message that says I can't create the folders I need to create in my > > work account. > > > The message: > > > Cannot access directory > > C:\Program Files\The Bat\Mail > > Access is denied > <SNIP> > > Vista has much stricter default permissions. These defaults are > preventing you from creating a mail directory in the Program Files > folder. > > I suggest changing the mail directory. Open "Options -> Preferences -> > System" and change the mail directory to a location that you can write > to (Somewhere within your home directory will work.). The default is > "%APPDATA%\The Bat!\". That works for me. > > -- > Chris > > Using The Bat! v3.99.3 on Windows Vista 6.0 Build 6000. > Accessing a POP3 mailbox. > > "Gadgets are not necessarily and improvement, vide the succession: > Blackboard -> Overhead Projector -> PowerPoint" > -Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -- Jeanny House [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eau Claire, WI AOL Instant Messenger -- JeannyH ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
