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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / General Topics / May 2008Can I force installation of a daily planner?
I have been using Delrina Daily Planner for (Don't laugh) fifteen years on seven different computers. It has worked with pre '95 Windows, Win 98 and even XP. I have not been able to install it into Vista. Is there any way to workaround or force the install? I dread the idea of having to hand copy all of the info to another program. The recurring events/reminders and contact info are enormous. Planner files have the extension '.DP'. Would greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks. Paul You could try to install in Compatibility mode. Right click on the installation file, Properties, Compatibility tab, and selecting from the drop down list. In addition, you could also right click on the installation file and select "Run as Administrator".  SignatureI Bleed Blue and Gold GO BEARS! >I have been using Delrina Daily Planner for (Don't laugh) fifteen years on >seven different computers. It has worked with pre '95 Windows, Win 98 and even [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Paul Thanks for the reply, Bear. Since the new laptop with Vista does not have an A: drive, I had to copy all the install files to the laptop thru the LAN from my desktop. I copied them into C:\Planner Setup. I'm trying to install into C:\Planner. I'm installing as Admin and have tried in both '95 and'98 compatibility. In each case, during the install, I get the Install Message "Could not open the file named 'C:\Disk1\Planner.ex_'". Disk1??? Where the heck does that come from? There's no Disk1 in the path. All of the install files are in the C:\Planner Setup folder, and there are no sub-folders. I have also tried installing form the Public folder. This is very curious. Any more ideas? Thanks. Paul The C:\ root directory is a rather strongly protected area with Vista. Perhaps you would have better luck by copying the install files to a CD or another drive, if available, and then installing to a folder under C:\Program Files SignatureI Bleed Blue and Gold GO BEARS! > Thanks for the reply, Bear. > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Paul I see the point about the root directory. I only went there because I couldn't install to Program Files without getting the Disk1 problem. I'll try a CD instead of the file transfer. Good idea! Check the files in your Planner.setup. If there is a planner.ex_ in the files you need to have your setup files in a folder named Disk1, not Planner setup > Thanks for the reply, Bear. > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Paul Hooray! The Disk1 folder worked. I couldn't get the program installed in the Program Files folder though. I had to install it on C:\. I'm not too happy about that. Thanks to Andrew, John and Bear for your input. Paul Glad it worked. You obviously have an older hard coded program. > Hooray! The Disk1 folder worked. I couldn't get the program installed in > the Program Files folder though. I had to install it on C:\. I'm not too > happy about that. Thanks to Andrew, John and Bear for your input. > > Paul Also, an older program like that may not create any registry entries, so you can try physically moving it to Program Files an making a shortcut from there for your start menu if it runs from there. Make sure you move the entire folder there. > Hooray! The Disk1 folder worked. I couldn't get the program installed in > the Program Files folder though. I had to install it on C:\. I'm not too > happy about that. Thanks to Andrew, John and Bear for your input. > > Paul Another good idea. That worked too. It IS and old program. Paul Glad everything has worked out. An old program is one I wrote in the 1960's. :-) > Another good idea. That worked too. It IS and old program. > > Paul > Since the new laptop with Vista does not have an A: drive, I had to copy > all the install files to the laptop thru the LAN from my desktop. I copied [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > tried installing form the Public folder. This is very curious. Any more > ideas? Thanks. Hi Paul, The 16-bit Setup.inf scripts often groups files accoridng to diskette, on the assumption that software will always be installed from floppy (not a bad assumption in 1994). The problem is probably not so much that you're installing on Vista, as that you're installing on a machine which has no floppy drive. If you have the original Delrina Daily Planner floppies, create a directory structure like this: C:\ +----C:\DDPInst +----Disk1 +----Disk2 +----Disk3 +--- etc Copy the contents of floppy disk 1 into C:\DDPInst\Disk1, floppy disk 2 into C:\DDPInst\Disk2, and so on. If you don't have the floppy disks, just install the entire set of installation files into each directory. Setup will just ignore the files it doesn't want. The run Setup from the C:\DDPInst\Disk1 subdirectory. I'd recommend against using "C:\Planner Setup" as the name for the installation directory - it's not causing the specific problem you're seeing, but many older applications get easily confused by pathnames which contain spaces. You might save yourself a further headache by starting with the simplest, 8.3 naming conventions. There will probably be a file with a name like setup.ini or setup.inf in the installation files - this is the file which tells setup where to look for each file it needs to install. It'll be a plain text file which you can open in Notepad. I don't recommend you try to hack it at all; those early setup files were very fragile constructions ... but reading it, may give you a better understanding of how the Daily Planner setup is working. I never used Delrina Daily Planner but I did install their WinFax Pro product, back in the 1990s. I remember the company well. Hope this helps, good luck with it! SignatureAndrew McLaren amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au Paul, I too use the Delrina Daily Planner. You are the first person I have found that still has the install disks. My version has stopped working (partially) and I have lost my disks. Like you, I have a huge amount of information that I can't/won't move to another planner program (as I don't think any new programs are as good as the Delrina Daily Planner). Please contact me, as I would love to get copies of this ancient program. Thanx in advance!!!!! Tom ;) SignatureTommyD69 Paul, I have also used Delrina Daily Planner for years on different systems. I just bought a new computer with Vista and transfered the Delrina files to it. As in previous transfers, several DLLs (Amaze.dll, etc) don't transfer and had to been transfered to the Delrina file manually. You will find out which dlls these are when you try to open Delrina. Mine now works just like before, but lost the Delrina icon in the suffle. Good luck and let me know if you are sucessful. David > Paul, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > David Who is Paul and what problem are you supplying the solution to? This is not a chat room and actually this is NOT a "web forum" either, this is a global Usenet Newsgroup. Please adhere to usenet custom, quote the post you are replying to, and don't change the subject line. Thank you. |
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