At 01:08 AM 3/12/02 -0000, you wrote:

>I was a bit disappointed that G8 couldn't even pick up my location
>from the G7 install, and I had to enter all user-specific info and
>preferences again by hand. I was tempted to just copy over my
>startup.mar file, but decided not to try it...
>
>I couldn't even load my old marks, since you can't change the
>directory from within the interface.
>

Don't know why this was a problem. I kept a subdirectory c:\guide\g7stuff
with copies of all my created *.mar files (including startup.mar and my own
mydflt.mar) and all *.zip files I had added to G7, as well as a copy of any
modifications to guide.dat. Before installing G8 I deleted everything in
the root directory c:\guide, did the install, then copied everything from
the \g7stuff subdir into the new root directory, and unzipped the *.zip files.

It just seemed like the logical thing to do, and it worked fine for me. It
only took 2 or 3 minutes for all that copying and unzipping.

Larry
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