Address Book Disappears on Different Machine

[dmk]

I have to move between 2 machines:

Windows XP, Sp3 and Windoes Windows Vista (SP unknown).

I have Pop Peeper 3.6 (January 2010 release) installed on a 2 GB thumb drive.

When I go to the Vista machine it cannot see my address book - I get a blank address book when it is selected.

I have not checked to see if the two machine are assigning a new drive letter but since Pop Peeper will work OK otherwise it seems that it can find the data on the thumb drive.

I thought the address book was erased and not saved but when I returned back to my home machine the address book displayed fine. To check this I went to a new Windows Xp machine that had never seen or used Pop Peeper and plugged in my thumb drive and it was able to see the address book fine.

Any ideas as to why the Vista machine cannot see the address book or why it displays blank?

DMK

[Jeff]

Welcome to the forums, dmk.

hmm... that does seem strange. On the main menu, select Options / Set Options, then go to the Storage page. What is the value for the 'Data Path' ? -- it should likely be 'data'

Using Windows Explorer, go to that folder (if it's 'data' then that means it's a subfolder called 'data' under where you are running POP Peeper, e.g. if your flash drive is currently E:, then E:\POP Peeper\data\

Now look for a file called 'addrbook.csx' and make sure the file size is greater than 0.

Any unexpected findings?

[dmk]

Thanks for the response.

My data path was: G:\E_Mail_Pop_Peeper

That is the folder the application is/was in on my thumb drive. The address book was also at that level, i.e. same level as the application.

Based on your suggestion it is now: G:\E_Mail_Pop_Peeper\data\

The application created the folder \data\ and moved the address book file there. It functions on my Windows XP machine but it will be 24-72 hrs before I get back to the Vista machine to see if this changes anything.

I have a funny feeling that the Vista machine may be assigning a different random drive letter such as "F" or some other. If so a full file path may be the issue. Is there any way to use a relative path that will have the application look just within the thumbdrive such as using "\data\" Just a thought.

Dennis K.

[dmk]

9-Feb-10

Solution found.

It seems that Poppeeper on a thumb drive can loose its address book when it is assigned a different drive letter, F, G. H , etc because the location of the data folder looks for the full path.

My solution as suggested here, was to set the data path as "\data\" and not specify the drive letter.

This caused Poppeeper to create a folder named "data" and the address book was moved there.

Now when I move between machines that may assign a different random drive letter to the thumb drive I don't loose th eaddress book, or have to reset the full path.

Thanks much. Great application.

It allows me to take my necessary e-mail contacts with me so I can operate from any computer with internet access.

DMK

[Jeff]

Typically, you'll want to use just "data" as POP Peeper's Storage Path. This will create a subfolder under whereever POP Peeper is currently running and won't use drive letters. Using "\data" works too, if you don't mind cluttering your root folder, but useful if you have a central location for data files (in which case, something like "\data\POPPeeper\" might be more appropriate).