Greetings: Can't Open Card From Floppy After Re-install
  
PSS ID Number: Q131609
Article last modified on 09-22-1995
 
1.00
 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Bob version 1.0
 - Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.x
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SUMMARY
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In Microsoft Bob Great Greetings, if you try to open a card that was saved
to a floppy disk from a previous installation of Microsoft Bob, you receive
an error message similar to the following:
 
     Uh-Oh! There's an error!
     That just didn't work.
     Nobody told me why.
     Please try it again.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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This problem is caused by a difference in the ID that is assigned to
the program each time it is set up. To open the card, you must first
comment out the SystemId in the [MS-Bob] section of Win.ini. Follow
the steps below to comment out this ID:
 
1. On the File menu in Program Manager, click Run.
 
2. Type "win.ini" (without the quotation marks) in the command line box,
   and then click OK.
 
   This opens Win.ini in Notepad for editing.
 
3. Scroll down to the [MS-Bob] section and locate the line that starts with
   "SystemId=" .
 
4. Position the cursor at the start of the line (in front of SystemId), and
   type a semi-colon (;) to comment out this line.
 
5.  On the File menu in Notepad, click Exit.
 
8.  Click Yes to save changes.
 
You can now start Microsoft Bob and Great Greetings and open the card that
is on the floppy disk.
 
KBCategory: kbusage
KBSubcategory: B_Greetings
 
Additional reference words: 1.00 w_bob
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