UD Aliases Whacked and Auto-Insert options lost

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  Hi Stephen,
  
  
  Could you go to the About box (in either editor click on SQL Prompt > About) and verify that the version you have installed is 3.0.0.868 please?
  
  
  Thanks,
  Bart

  Bart Read January 24, 2007 05:56

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  3.0.0.868 it is...

  PDinCA January 24, 2007 12:42

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  Interesting.... we haven't changed anything back. Could you please be specific about (i) what options you have now, and (ii) what options are missing that were previously present?
  Thanks,
  Bart

  Bart Read January 24, 2007 13:14

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  Please see revised initial post... My bad for the mistake in the post :oops: , but there are two issues... points 1 and 3.

  PDinCA January 24, 2007 13:36

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  OK thanks Stephen, that's somewhat less worrying but still rather bizarre. I tried an install over an old EngineOptions.xml file here and it picked up all my settings fine. The only time this ever causes a problem is if you've used TextPad to manually edit the file. We're still not quite sure why this particular editor causes a problem, but it's best avoided, at least for this task (otherwise I think it's great).
  
  I can only apologise that this has happened to you again: it's just weird. I don't know how you're going about merging your files, but if you've never looked at it before I'd suggest this rather fantastic (free) tool:
  
  http://winmerge.org/
  
  At any rate it looks like we're going to need to test this area more extensively to avoid this problem for any patch releases we might announce or it's really going to become annoying for people.
  
  
  Thanks,
  Bart

  Bart Read January 24, 2007 13:44

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  Strange, I only used Notepad to make the changes... totally an eyeball-copy-paste super-advanced-technology solution
  
  Thanks for the winmerge URL - I'll take a look...

  PDinCA January 24, 2007 14:28

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  It'll make snippet merging a lot less error prone, although you'll still have to update the pesky count property, which is purely due to my laziness at the time (it means you have to write about half as much code to read the file back ), however I will be eradicating the use of that from all the back-end configuration files wherever it appears. I think it's only in the snippets now anyway.
  Thanks,
  Bart

  Bart Read January 25, 2007 06:13

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