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From: Trevor Quayle
Subject: ini Files
Date: 14 Sep 2001 08:06:12
Message: <3ba1f2b4$1@news.povray.org>
Is it possible to make the installation not write over existing ini files, I
just installed beta 2 and all the ini files I had setup up got overwritten
(only povray.ini was backed up though)

-tgq


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: ini Files
Date: 14 Sep 2001 10:07:22
Message: <3ba20f1a$1@news.povray.org>
In article <3ba1f2b4$1@news.povray.org> , "Trevor Quayle" 
<Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> Is it possible to make the installation not write over existing ini files, I
> just installed beta 2 and all the ini files I had setup up got overwritten
> (only povray.ini was backed up though)

How could the installer possibly know which are old files and which are ones
you changed?

    Thorsten


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From: Trevor Quayle
Subject: Re: ini Files
Date: 14 Sep 2001 10:37:15
Message: <3ba2161b@news.povray.org>
There is the option to back up files which are overwritten.  I selected this
option but, while povray.ini was backed up, pvengine.ini, pvtools.ini and
quickres.ini weren't.  I usually backed them up manually before I installed
a new version, but this time I didn't, but expected that the installation
would back them up as it indicates it will.

As for the installer knowing, other programs don't seem to have a problem
with it, whenever I install a new version of Eudora, my ini files are
maintained as they were unless they don't exist, in which case the default
one is installed.

-tgq


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