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   Message 627 of 1,458   
   Rj Clay to Roy Witt   
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   03 Oct 12 07:48:26   
   
   Roy,   
      
   30 Sep 12 15:54, you wrote to me:   
      
    RW> 29 Sep 12 18:48, Rj Clay wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RC>>    Would I be correct in thinking that if it's greyed out and not   
    RC>> accessible, I likely did set a password there?   
      
    RW> That or your REX install is running with corrupt files.   
      
      And either case can be resolved by starting from scratch.   
      
      
    RC>> I don't recall and it's not in my notes but the basic   
    RC>> configuration was copied over from other systems... (several   
    RC>> times...)   
      
    RW> Hmmmm.   
      
      Yep.  The last working install (prior to where it is now) was on an old    
   PC that I stopped using due to hardware problems.  The hard drives were still    
   accessible so I backed up their contents in various ways (images of the drive    
   partitions as well as a simple copy of the their contents).  Since then, I've    
   copied the irex install from that to various other systems, attempting to get    
   it working again.  And of course, this happened over some time, as I wasn't    
   devoting much time to it...  Finally copied it over to the current system    
   (Debian v3 in a VM) where it worked well enough to get me to decide to devote    
   more time to getting it operational.   
      
      
    RC>>    I wonder if I should try setting it up from scratch (including   
    RC>> the entry of the registration info) on a clean install...   
      
    RW> If you have preserved the reg info, that should be a good way to go.   
      
       I've a print out of that somewhere, but in this case since the old install    
   was working well enough otherwise I just went into rexcfgl in another window    
   for the registration info.   
      
      
    RW> Use freshly unpacked files from a clean REX archive.   
      
       That's what I ended up doing.  It appears to be operational but I think    
   needs a lot of configuration. (And more understanding, on my part...)   
      
      
      
   Jame   
      
      
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