Re: Problems with FM7 install

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

FrameMaker 7 has more than just the maker.ini file and the final version
of FrameMaker 7 does indeed give an error message if pre-final versions
of FrameMaker 7 maker.ini is found on your system.

If you get into this situation, I would recommend the following. Totally
uninstall FrameMaker 7. Then, make sure you totally blow away (i.e., delete)
the the directory into which FrameMaker was installed. Next search your system
for all copies of "maker.ini". FrameMaker 7 actually creates a personalized
version of "maker.ini" by userid. Under Windows 2000 and XP, you will find
these in:

        C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\7.0

where "xxxxxx" is a userid. Each user of the system gets a "maker.ini" file
in their corresponding "Documents and Setting" directory. Under Windows'9x/Me
(bless your poor souls), the path name is different, but a search will 
yield the exact locations for you. Delete all these user-based "maker.ini"
files.

Finally, reinstall FrameMaker 7. The problem should be gone.

Note that this is only an issue for some beta test users of FrameMaker 7
under certain situations. If you were not part of the FrameMaker 7 beta program,
you will not experience this problem. (However, you might want to remember what
I have told you above about the location of the by-userid "maker.ini" files!)

        - Dov


At 7/28/2002 12:50 PM, Becky Swanson wrote:
>Has anyone else had problems with their production FM7 install? I was running
>beta FM7, but recently got my released version. I uninstalled the beta version
>(and my FM6). The new FM7 seems to install ok, but when I select the Structured
>interface, none of the structured stuff works (the Structure View window will
>not appear, the Element pull-down menu is all greyed out -- even on the FM7
>structured sample documents.)
>
>When I first open FM7, it tells me that my maker.ini file doesn't match the
>version that I'm running. ("The FrameMaker version (7.0b420 specified in
>C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\maker ini does not match the FrameMaker
>verions (7.0p492) that you are running.) Soooo, I even tried deleting the
>maker.ini file and uninstalling the new FM7, then reinstalling.
>
>I'm on a PC running Win98SE. I didn't have any trouble with the beta version or
>any previous release of FM. Do I have a defective CD for the released version?
>
>Thanks for any info. Do I need a new maker.ini file? Anybody have this version
>that could email it to me?
>
>Thanks,
>Becky


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