http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Saving Program Settings? of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:26:01 +0300 Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Ahh, Americans, we are so provincial. Many (most?) of us can't speak English properly. Your English is wonderful. Thanks again for everyone's help.  

Moldavian? More Romanian than Russian, I think. Hope they don't get offended being called Russians.
16 September 2009 20:26:01, Hugh Jass.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29903/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29903/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:26:01 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
The development team is Moldavian, that's not Russian, but it's close.
My name is Dutch (and so am I)
16 September 2009 20:20:52, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29902/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29902/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:20:52 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Thanks for helping out, Roelof, and replying so quickly.

Must be a bug. My address book was restored, but I am redoing all my interface settings. BTW, it looks like the development team is Russian, as does your name... is English your first or second language?
16 September 2009 20:05:01, Hugh Jass.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29900/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29900/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:05:01 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Just tried to restore a backup.
TB didn't restore interface settings etc, even didn't restore my registration and it should do that.
Also it didn't restore my address book and with 1700 entries that's not something I'd like to loose.
Definitely a bug.
16 September 2009 19:59:19, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29899/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29899/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:59:19 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
It's been a while since I've used it, but the trick used to be to restore the backup, close TB without changing or checking any settings and start TB again.
Without the internal backup it isn't possible to restore any settings from encrypted to unencrypted, because there's no tool availble to decrypt TB's stuff without using TB itself.
16 September 2009 19:40:59, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29898/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29898/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:40:59 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
But that's the problem, the internal backup via the tools menu does not save my custom menus, toolbar settings, and general preferences (startup at windows, etc.) Or is it supposed to? When I do the internal backup, I have all options checked, including global, but when I restore the .tbk file, all preference and menu settings are back to default. I spent a long time customizing the menus and toolbars and would like to preserve those. Thanks for all your help so far...

Edit: I just followed your directions and my preferences were restored but my view settings (toolbars, menus, windows split mode, tabs, etc) were not. They revert to default. How do you preserve those settings?
16 September 2009 18:52:35, Hugh Jass.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29897/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29897/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:52:35 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
The only way to convert from otfe to plain is via an internal backup via the Tools menu.
Next you uninstall TB (or delete the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT tree from the registry)
Run TB again and restore the backup
A backup with the proper setting should save the general settings too.
16 September 2009 18:39:28, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29896/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29896/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:39:28 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Thanks, bigg one. One more question. I am doing this because I want to reinstall TB without on-the-fly encryption. When I restore the files you mentioned above, encryption is still enabled. Do you know which registry key and/or file is responsible for that? Or is it even possible to backup settings from an encrypted installation to a non-encrypted installation?
16 September 2009 18:24:15, Hugh Jass.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29895/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29895/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:24:15 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
backup the files in the root of the mail folder (not in sub-folders as there only account-specific data is stored), and the registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT
16 September 2009 18:00:39, bigg one.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29893/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29893/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:00:39 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Saving Program Settings? How to save toolbar, menu, preferences, etc. in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Is there a way to backup:

1. Options in the 'Preferences' setting
2. Toolbar & menu customizations?

The backup feature via the 'Tools' menu works great for my email account preferences, but it doesn't save the items mentioned above. Am I missing something or is this not available? Thanks.
16 September 2009 10:30:22, Hugh Jass.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29888/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8594/message29888/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:30:22 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client