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From: f86_fredrik@fyvax2.fy.chalmers.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Boomerang 2.0
Message-ID: <225@fyvax2.fy.chalmers.se>
Date: 18 Mar 90 08:20:58 GMT
References: <10227@portia.Stanford.EDU> <10229@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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In article <10229@portia.Stanford.EDU>, thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) writes:
> Last week, I download Boomerang 2.0 to try it out and see if it was worth it.
> I used it a couple of days and was pretty pleased, and then....it stopped
> working.  When I booted up, the Icon had a slash through it.  I tried to 
> access it through the control panel which did not work.  It gave me a message
> like the preference file was damaged.
> 
> What gives?  I am considering downloading it again, but will this happen
> again?  Has the author put a two day expiration date before the program dis-
> ables itself?
> 
> I am running 6.0.4 with Multifinder 6.1b9 on an SE/30 with 5 MB of RAM.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> ---Derek Fong
> fong@cive.stanford.edu
> thewho@portia.stanford.edu

It is not uncommon that the Boomerang Preferences file gets trashed if you 
have a system crash or some such. If you have done  a lot of configuration
in it (e.g. permanent files and folders, command key equivalents), then
you should make a backup copy every now and then so you can replace the bad
file from this. Otherwise, just copy the clean file you got when downloading.
(what? You haven't saved a copy? How stupid! :-)

Otherwise I think that Boomerang is THE most useful addition to the system
I've ever seen. I really don't know how I've ever got along without it.

 
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