Fuck Incredimail!

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » February 9, 2007, 3:34 am

Stupid POS adware bullshit application my wife uses for email on her PC.

I said "Honey, use Outlook, or Netscape or something standard. If this breaks I won't be able to help you."

Two days after I tell her we should get the laptop she mentions wanting occasionally because her eMachines PC is due for a replacement, two days after she tells me "I'll think about it." her fucking eMachines spews smoke at 5AM, causing her to wake me up in a panic and urge me to "Fix it!".

"It" has apparently blown a power supply, if not something else.

So I get her a sweet Vista Home Premium pre-loaded laptop ($599, decent config). I install all her apps and mount her old HDD in an external drive case so I can recover all her documents.

All but her piece of shit Incredimail. The version of the app she had installed wasn't Vista compliant and crashed upon launching. Upgrading it, you can't see her messages, email accounts, addresses etc. I tried a fresh install over the old version, no dice. I tried a clean install and copying what I believed were the correct data files over, no dice.

In the end I sent her a list of all her email addresses and told her she was welcome to use the new Incredimail (at her own risk) sans her prior settings/archives/address book, but my advice was to use Outlook.

Either that or fix her 5 year old $400 computer herself.

Fuck Incredimail.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » February 9, 2007, 11:40 am

But Incredimail has hundreds of emoticons!

I would guess, but could be very wrong, that you should be able to import the Incredimail data into Outlook with a 3rd party converter. A Vista laptop for $600? Do we want to know how well that runs?

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » February 9, 2007, 11:53 am

Siji - I cannot even FIND the incredimail message store. The file it looks like it should be is a 0 Byte file (which, among others) I copied over. Not sure if that's HDD corruption, or the fun of Windows permissions on a disk mounted on another machine, but all her other shit was visable and copied over fine.

As for Vista on a $600 laptop, it runs super. The most intensive thing she's going to do with this thing is edit pictures in Photoshop which she was easily able to do with her several (4-5?) year old eMachines PC. It's not like she's trying to play Vanguard on it.