Re: [NTLK] Wiping Names Soup

At this point I have no registered software on my machine. So I guess
it would not affect me at all?
Is the owner and worksite info stored in the Names soup?

Cheers!

Greg
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On Jan 21, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Dan wrote:

> On 1/21/2008 3:42 AM, Jon Glass wrote:
>> On Jan 21, 2008 7:21 AM, Dan
>>> Sure, go into extras, tap the diamond at the top of the screen and
>>> select storage. Then tap names, and delete. It will clear then
>>> whole
>>> thing.
>>
>> BUT DON"T DO THAT!!! Unless you want to wipe all your user info! If
>> you do this, you will have to reenter registration codes, etc--a real
>> pain in the neck!
>>
>> In the end, I decided the best thing to do was to just keep deleting
>> with the select-all feature. It deletes--a bunch at a time. So, it
>> may
>> take a few minutes, but you won't wipe out your owner info this
>> way...
>> On my Newt with over 800 names, it took maybe 4 or 5 tries to get
>> them
>> all gone, but they went...
>
> Hmm true guess I should have mentioned that. It never bothered me
> though as I kept a note with all my codes and only took a minute to
> enter the ones affected (not that I had to delete the soup often,
> but I
> have for on a few occasions for testing reasons). Keep in mind not
> all
> of such packages use the names soup for code storage. Perhaps that is
> another reason it didn't bother me as most of my packages used the
> system soup. I think many packages (if not most) started using the
> system soup for this very reason as it was too easy for the normal
> user
> to delete their registration data.
>
> -Dan
>
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