Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 11:23:01 11/28/00
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Something similar happened to me with another application, Netscape 4.7 -- I installed it on top of my previous Netscape (4.01). When it finished installing and after rebooting, all my email (address book & messages), all my news-groups (including saved messages and subscribed groups), all my bookmarks and history were reset to "empty" files. Netscape may consider it an "operator error" (I don't even recall which option I set that approved the wipeout of everything), but there surely was no warning from the installer they're going to wipe out large quantity of existent data. I did recover some email addresses from an older email package, but all the messages, newer email addresses and the bookmarks stored by Netscape were all gone for good, few years worth of accumulation. Later I installed Netscape 4.75 over the 4.7, and it didn't destroy any data (or ask me about it in any place that I could see). This time I also had all the key files saved in a backup file before the install. Normally, after such disaster, one would have deleted Netscape in disgust and taken another browser. Unfortunately, IE still has so many design warts, security and privacy loopholes, that even the destructive Netscape installer and the browser which locks up daily is still less annoying than the IE 5.5.
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