Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 14:09:58 11/28/00
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On November 28, 2000 at 14:23:01, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >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. Anything can happen using Windows. Fragile point of Windows is its shut-down. I have many PC's and during the years it has happened several times that after a shut-down and then turning on the PC the next morning major things were broken with as a result (if you are lucky) a re-install of Windows. 3-4 months ago NB on my development system the bitch refused to boot Windows after a shut-down. A re- install did not work, deleting every Windows file didn't do the trick either because after a sucessful full install Windows still refused to boot. To solve the problem I bought a new harddisk and moved the corrupted Windows harddisk from C to D. There is no cure. It just happens so now and then... Ed
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