Encrypt message base

Create a full internal backup with The Bat!
And for safety purposes create a one on one copy of your plain text message base.
Uninstall TB
Delete your plain text message base
Install TB again and select that you want to use OTFE
Restore your message base from backup.
Now you should be running OTFE

There is no way to switch to OTFE without uninstalling TB. Or that's not completely true, you could also make the necessary backups, delete your message base and delete this tree from your registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat!
Basically this has the same effect as uninstalling and installing TB.
Note that this registry tree has to be deleted manually if you're using TB in a restricted user account under Windows, because the registry settings for TB are user based and Windows doesn't allow uninstall programs to access the registry for other users than the one running the uninstall program.

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Roelof Otten Guru Posts: 2963 Points: 5336 Rating: 60 Authority: 60 Joined: 19 September 2004	#2 0 29 September 2006 11:59:45 Create a full internal backup with The Bat! And for safety purposes create a one on one copy of your plain text message base. Uninstall TB Delete your plain text message base Install TB again and select that you want to use OTFE Restore your message base from backup. Now you should be running OTFE There is no way to switch to OTFE without uninstalling TB. Or that's not completely true, you could also make the necessary backups, delete your message base and delete this tree from your registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat! Basically this has the same effect as uninstalling and installing TB. Note that this registry tree has to be deleted manually if you're using TB in a restricted user account under Windows, because the registry settings for TB are user based and Windows doesn't allow uninstall programs to access the registry for other users than the one running the uninstall program. __________________________________ I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.