Re: How do you transfer an application...

In article <1148655720.153780.264450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why did you choose to leave that information out until after you were
given solutions?

Note: no response.

I have a feeling that Edwin himself have neglected to respond to
paragraphs on occasion in the past :)

WTF does "a previous setup of Windows mean? You reinstalled Windows?
You upgraded Windows?

Reformatted and reinstalled, actually.

So you expect to transfer an application, its preferences, and its
files, from a disk that was reformatted? How could even you be that
stupid?

Whatever do you mean? Obviously he means to keep the application and
its preferences in an interim location, which could be anything from a
iPod, external hard drive or a CD-ROM. Heck, it could even be a floppy
disk - I hear from prominent Windows advocates that it's still the
greatest thing for portable media. :)

This would, of course, be trivial on a Mac. Alan wanted to know how
hard it would be on a Windows machine. You told him it was impossible
unless you buy extra software, but the way you act now implies that
this pricey software couldn't even handle a case where you need to
reformat and reinstall Windows.

On the Mac, I just copy the app and a few easily found preference
files.

It's not a privilege I'd spend an extra $1K to have.

And I didn't.

Sure you did.

No, I didn't.

Okay, so you stole your Mac.

That's not a very successful line of thinking. Obviously Alan didn't
pay $1K extra for the privilege of having easily managed applications
- that was just a juicy bonus for the presumed price premium he paid
for his Mac, which obviously holds values too numerous to mention in a
single post other than just application management.

To keep those things on a machine they were already on? You're
fscked up in the head.

After a reformat and reinstall.

See what I mean about you being fscked up in the head?

Now now, what's the motive behind this immature personal attack?

Reformating wipes out everything on the disk. You have nothing to
transfer.

Unless, of course, he stores the files somewhere else in the interim -
something I'm sure pretty much everyone else managed to figure out.

LOL

Why do you bother to post that?

I'd say he wants to accurately reflect his reaction to what you have
posted.




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