Backing up

[John Price]

Having just had to reinstall everything, and then with Xananews had to
subscribe again to the groups I can recall, alter fonts to mky taste,
redo killfile filters etc - all makes me wonder, is there an easier way
to do this? Are all the settings stored anywhere that can be backed up
and then just reimported after a rebuild?

Cheers

JIP

[Q Correll]

John,

| Are all the settings stored anywhere that can be backed up
| and then just reimported after a rebuild?

Pieter can correct me if necessary, but XN's info is kept in the
Registry under Woozle.

If the Registry wasn't affected you should have been able to just
plunk-in the XN executable, run it and it would find all the "old
stuff" in the Registry.

You can also tell XN to instead keep info in an XML file.

[John Price]

Post by Q Correll
John,
You can also tell XN to instead keep info in an XML file.

How do I tell it to do that?

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[Q Correll]

John,

| How do I tell it to do that?

Here's Pieter's instructions from last year:

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From: "Pieter Zijlstra" <***@hccnet.nl>
Subject: Re: Moving XanaNews data to an NAS?
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 03:02:00 +0200
User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.324

I would like to know the XML method. While it's unlikely Quincy will
give way to some future Rocky any time soon, it might be nice to get
ready for it.

Didn't try it for a while but IIRC the following should work:

1) Make a backup of your MessageBase and registry settings, just to be
sure.

2) Start up XanaNews using the registry settings:
File -> Export compressed message, select everything including "Export
XanaNews settings"

3) Start up XanaNews using the XML file [1] and then use:
File -> Import compressed message
(everything will be restored to the default MessageBase location)

After that, move the MessageBase to the desired location.

[1] "NewsReader3.exe" "-XMLSettings:XanaNews.xml"

Now, not everything is roses of course. For the last little while
KBM, ESB and Scalabrium have been in accessible to me. The ESB case

is,

I believe, an issue with a newly-needed password to access the site. I
remember getting an email from Glenn about spam and the new need for
one. KBM is a long-standing fallout over the server crash that caused
so many forums to go down (and, in some cases, permanently down). But
Scalabrium is a fairly new issue. None of these is important.

AFAIK news.scalabium.com no longer exists.

For ESB you'll need to create an account:
http://esb.newsgrouphosting.com/Users/Signup.aspx

Not sure about KBM.

But after the transfer, I now have an issue with my Delphi forums. I
have a password to Embarcadero and have input username and password.
But nothing. Nada. Unchecking the use password box doesn't solve it
either. I'm using forums.embarcadero.com.
Any ideas?

Even without a username/password you should have read-only access.

What issue do you see with the EMBT forum?
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Pieter
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