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Re: eudora 3.0.2 installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott G. McGuire)
Mon Mar 17 11:28:20 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03101f05af528f39890a@[18.162.0.84]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 11:25:48 -0500
To: iggy@MIT.EDU
From: "Scott G. McGuire" <smcguire@MIT.EDU>
Cc: installers@MIT.EDU
>At 4:53 PM -0500 3/14/97, Alicia Allen wrote:
>I was doing some testing/learning about the Eudora 3.0.2 installer,
>and I ran into what I believe is a problem.
>I was on a PM 7100 in the Training Lab, I checked to make sure that
>there were no files relating to Eudora on the computer, none with that
>name in it, nothing in the system folder, and i threw away kclient &
>kerberos client preferences. I then ran the Eudora installer. It did the
>install just fine, no problems, but it never did the part at the end where
>it sets up some of the settings for the user. It never prompted me for my
>name or username or anything. I then ran Eudora, and I had to go into
>settings and put those all in myself. The POP account and everything was
>blank.
Marshall Vale answered:
>In such a case, a Eudora settings file was probably still lingering around
>to cause the Installer to not run the EIA (Eudora Installer Assistant).
>A quick guess was that perhaps you moved a copy to the Trash but had
>not yet emptied the Trash? That might be a condition that we'll have
>to look into. A Eudora Settings backup file would also probably cause
>this condition...
Just to confirm...
The EIA will not bring up the new user configuration dialog if it finds a
Eudora Settings file anywhere on the destination disk, including ones it
finds in the Trash. As Marshall said, if you've just cleaned up but don't
empty the Trash, you won't get the configuration dialog.
Also, it searches for the Eudora Settings files by file type and creator
and not by name, so if a settings file has been renamed, it will still be
found. If you think you deleted all the settings files and emptied the
trash, do a search on the disk by file type ('PREF') and creator ('CSOm')
and see what you find.
And yes, while the EIA will not attempt to modify a Eudora Settings backup
file, if it finds one it will not show the configuration dialogs either.
--Scott McGuire / smcguire@mit.edu
