Alan Kong <ako### [at] pacbellno-spamnet> wrote:
:   Chris usually advises people to perform an uninstall as this method may
: clean up the Registry better than simply installing on top of an older
: version (I haven't verified this). To be safe, just be sure to save anything
: you want to keep to another location, such as scene and .ini files, and
: customized Insert Menu items.

  I think this will also remove my codemax editor settings, which is not
funny.
  Isn't there another way?

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Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
: 3.1h               04/22/99 Chris Young
: Fixed bump_map bug introduced in 3.1f

  Btw, hoe about explaining what kind of bugs are those? I have never heard
of a bump_map bug or a 4D-vector bug... It would be nice to know.

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On 8 Jul 1999 01:37:44 -0400, Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote:

>  I think this will also remove my codemax editor settings, which is not
>funny.
>  Isn't there another way?

  I've never messed with the Codemax settings, always used the default. I
don't see an .ini for the settings so perhaps it is stored in the Registry
and an uninstall is sure to wipe it. Don't know the answer to this one...

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On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 19:32:26 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>To be "safe" I go into the directory I am installing into and change
>each of the major directory names to something different than what
>the install program uses.

  Smart thinking. Another thing I do is to 'zip' my Insert Menu texts into
an archive with pathnames and just overwrite on top of the newly installed
POV-Ray package. Your method avoids this extra step.

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\POV-Ray\v3.1\POV-Edit

Think that may be the registry key to Export and then later Import, but
I have no idea if you'd be messing it all up. I'm no Registry wizard
(not even apprentice). Be aware there are other sub-keys listed within
that one too. Frankly I wouldn't touch it myself.
Looking at the DLLs it seems all goes into the registry alright. But
that's another guess of mine.


Alan Kong wrote:
> 
> On 8 Jul 1999 01:37:44 -0400, Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote:
> 
> >  I think this will also remove my codemax editor settings, which is not
> >funny.
> >  Isn't there another way?
> 
>   I've never messed with the Codemax settings, always used the default. I
> don't see an .ini for the settings so perhaps it is stored in the Registry
> and an uninstall is sure to wipe it. Don't know the answer to this one...
> 
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On 8 Jul 1999 01:37:44 -0400, Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote:

>  I think this will also remove my codemax editor settings, which is not
>funny.
>  Isn't there another way?

Run regedit and export the key:

My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\POV-Ray\v3.1\POV-Edit.

And merge it after you've instaleld the new version. This will save
your color settings, keyboard macros, files history and open files.


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Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote:
: Run regedit and export the key:

: My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\POV-Ray\v3.1\POV-Edit.

: And merge it after you've instaleld the new version. This will save
: your color settings, keyboard macros, files history and open files.

  It should be nice that instead of having to mess with the registry I
could just install the new version of povray and that's it. If there is
a previous version, it could take the settings from there (instead of
overwriting them).

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Nieminen Mika <war### [at] cctutfi> wrote in message
news:3785a2b8@news.povray.org...
> Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote:
> : Run regedit and export the key:
>
> : My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\POV-Ray\v3.1\POV-Edit.
>
> : And merge it after you've instaleld the new version. This will save
> : your color settings, keyboard macros, files history and open files.
>
>   It should be nice that instead of having to mess with the registry I
> could just install the new version of povray and that's it. If there is
> a previous version, it could take the settings from there (instead of
> overwriting them).
>

    Actually, it seems it doesn't just overwrite the registry settings - it
completely recreates them !

    As an experiment (to see if a re-install did, in fact, overwrite the reg
settings - I thought it didn't, but I wasn't sure) I renamed all the items
and sub-folders of the POV-Edit branch and then did a reinstall and my
renamed reg entries completely disappeared !!!

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This is not very nice. Upgrading seems to be a painful process if you
want the keep your settings.
  It seems that I will not upgrade to 3.1g...

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Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
>   This is not very nice. Upgrading seems to be a painful process if you
> want the keep your settings.
>   It seems that I will not upgrade to 3.1g...
> 
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

  You could backup your registry before installing and then restore it after
the installation. You can use the scanreg tool that comes with windows to
handle this task for you.

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