New PC, C: failed, so replaced SSD. Re Win7Pro-64.
Re DO v9-64bit, tried on both C and D.
Will not hold reg key.
Will not keep larger fonts.
Keeps adding back "day of week".
Honors saved settings for directory locations, but ignores Tools/FolderOptions:
"Ext" instead of "Type", "mix" instead of "folders first".
Does honor some toolbar customizations.
My guess is that your settings/profile directory permissions may be wrong, preventing Opus from updating the files there.
If you go to /dopusdata and try to edit one of the files in there (just do a harmless edit like adding a return at the end of the file), are you able to save the change?
This is just a guess based on the fact you've reinstalled the machine but kept the old data.
Folder properties were "Read Only". How can I kill such nonsense for ALL folders? I set UAC to min, but Bill Gates seems to feel this very experienced
user still must be protected from himself. I hate arrogance and wrong assumptions by some programmers (and Congress people).
Font choices worked, but still can't get EXT for TYPE. What keeps resetting folders to "read only." UAC is at min.
It's not UAC doing this; the same thing would have happened going all the way back to Windows NT 3.51, before UAC existed.
If you are using the same drive from a previous Windows install, but have created a new account (with the same name as your old account) then your profile folder will have directories in it permissioned for the old account (which no longer exists) that your new account cannot write to.
You need to adjust the permissions on all of the folders you kept from the old install so that a) your account is used in place of the old one (which will probably appear as a long series of numbers and dashes instead of a name, because the new Windows install doesn't know what the old account is) and b) your account has taken ownership of the files and folders.
Actually, the easiest way to do this is to copy the directories below your profile folder to somewhere else, delete them, then copy them back. This is assuming the root of your profile folder is permissioned correctly; if it isn't then it will need fixing first.
Go back to where I said SSD on C utterly failed and was replaced. NEW Win7Pro-64 install.
I don't understand what old folders or accounts you refer to, if on C. I do have data folders on D.
I was assuming you had restored a copy of your old drive somehow. As I said, it was just a guess based on the limited information at hand.
If not, I don't know why your directories below your profile folder would be read-only, but if they are they shouldn't be. Your account should be able to write to those directories (as that is the whole point of them).
I just read on a Win forum that folders are always "read only", but user can set permissions on files. Seems true.
So what files on C or D are controlling those parts of DO 9 which are blocking some of my updates of settings?
I have hex editor if needed.
So just the folder, not the files, were read-only?
Okay, let's go back to my first reply. Can you try editing one of the files like I asked? I assumed you had tried that and it had failed.
There's not much point in me suggesting things if they don't get tried.