Hello fellow Bats, On Thursday, July 15, 2010 I wrote:
JSL> Fellow list members, JSL> My wife's laptop just died and I have tried (almost successfully) to get the new laptop up and running the way the old one was. Yada, yada, yada. Fortunately I was able to solve this problem on my own and I only wasted $60 on HP tech support. It finally dawned on me that I might try exporting my wife's existing faulty address book to a CSV file, clean up any oddball address problems (the aforementioned blank contact) and then import it into a brand new address book. However, silly me, I wanted to save the new address book in the same folder the TB executable is in. Why? Oh I don't know. Maybe to keep all things BAT together? OH! No, no, no. Bill Gates won't let me do that with his new 64bit Windows 7 OS. I kept getting an error message that said I couldn't do that and I had to contact the system administrator. I AM the system administrator. Hence the $60 wasted on HP tech support only to have them tell me that "that's the way the OS is designed". Great, thanks a pantload. Fortunately (I guess) Mr. Gates deigned to allow me to create a folder in the C:\PROGRAM FILES(x86) folder, where the TB executable is located, and I called it TB!-ADBs. Once that folder was created I then created a new address book and saved it in that folder. I was then able to import from the cleaned-up CSV file into the new address book and everything seems to be working just peachy fine. My apologies to the list for burdening everybody with a problem I was a bit too hasty in crying about. One lives and one learns I guess. Many thanks to all who spent any time on this. -- Jack LaRosa mailto:jlar...@charter.net Sticking with with The Bat! ver: 4.0.38 for now. Operating? with Windows XP Pro ver 5 build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
