M
micky
After having my laptop for more than a year, I finally got around to
installing Eudora and Agent on it.
Eudora went fine, but when I tried to run a32en193.exe (Agent 1.93) I
got, "Could not initialize installation. File size expected nnnnnn, size
returned mmmmmm"
I know a bit about why this happened, but not much and I don't know how
to overcome it.
Originally I dl'd a copy of the program from http://mirrors.easy.....
(I can get the site if you want it.) I've never dealt with them before
and I worry about getting spyware or a virus. (Because I don't know
how these sites make a profit otherwise.)
Now that I was reminded of the file name, I found it on my desktop.
The one I just dl'd was 30 bytes shorter! That's a good sign, isn't
it??? They can't insert malicious code and make the file shorter at
the same time, can they?????
But nonetheless I wanted to use the file I'm almost sure I used before.
So I emailed it to the laptop. and I moved the file from the attachment
folder of Eudora to my download folder, overlaying the copy that I had
just downloaded. Then when I tried to run it, I got the message
above, The size it "expected" was that of the downloaded file, the
first one by that name in that folder. The size that was "returned"
was the file size of the one I overlaid the first one with.
So I deleted the whole thing, re-retrieved my email, copied it to the
downloads directory, ran it, and got the same result.
So I renamed the file, adding a 3 to a32en193, reran it, and got the
same result.
So I renamed the file in the Eudora attachment directory -- renamed it
differently from the prior renaming, that is -- ran it from that
directory, and got the same result (the same error message)
Then I thought, even though nothing in the message box attributed the
message to Avast or Security Essentials, maybe Avast was keeping track
of this, so I turned off 3 things I thought might be related, but that
didn't help. And I found maybe one thing in Security Essentials to
turn off, but that didn't help!!! Neither program had a switch to turn
off the whole thing, though AVG has that.
Googling got a few hits on the mesage, but none related to my setup. I
could google some more though.
Or, I suppose I could rename it before I sent it to the laptop, but I
don't think that will fool it.
Is there code IN the file that says how long it is? That didn't cause a
problem when I used it when I first got XP. (Though I used AVG and not
Avast or Security Essentials, and just maybe it was before SP3.)
Anyhow, for the future, I'd like to know what is happening and how to
avoid it.
Any ideas?
installing Eudora and Agent on it.
Eudora went fine, but when I tried to run a32en193.exe (Agent 1.93) I
got, "Could not initialize installation. File size expected nnnnnn, size
returned mmmmmm"
I know a bit about why this happened, but not much and I don't know how
to overcome it.
Originally I dl'd a copy of the program from http://mirrors.easy.....
(I can get the site if you want it.) I've never dealt with them before
and I worry about getting spyware or a virus. (Because I don't know
how these sites make a profit otherwise.)
Now that I was reminded of the file name, I found it on my desktop.
The one I just dl'd was 30 bytes shorter! That's a good sign, isn't
it??? They can't insert malicious code and make the file shorter at
the same time, can they?????
But nonetheless I wanted to use the file I'm almost sure I used before.
So I emailed it to the laptop. and I moved the file from the attachment
folder of Eudora to my download folder, overlaying the copy that I had
just downloaded. Then when I tried to run it, I got the message
above, The size it "expected" was that of the downloaded file, the
first one by that name in that folder. The size that was "returned"
was the file size of the one I overlaid the first one with.
So I deleted the whole thing, re-retrieved my email, copied it to the
downloads directory, ran it, and got the same result.
So I renamed the file, adding a 3 to a32en193, reran it, and got the
same result.
So I renamed the file in the Eudora attachment directory -- renamed it
differently from the prior renaming, that is -- ran it from that
directory, and got the same result (the same error message)
Then I thought, even though nothing in the message box attributed the
message to Avast or Security Essentials, maybe Avast was keeping track
of this, so I turned off 3 things I thought might be related, but that
didn't help. And I found maybe one thing in Security Essentials to
turn off, but that didn't help!!! Neither program had a switch to turn
off the whole thing, though AVG has that.
Googling got a few hits on the mesage, but none related to my setup. I
could google some more though.
Or, I suppose I could rename it before I sent it to the laptop, but I
don't think that will fool it.
Is there code IN the file that says how long it is? That didn't cause a
problem when I used it when I first got XP. (Though I used AVG and not
Avast or Security Essentials, and just maybe it was before SP3.)
Anyhow, for the future, I'd like to know what is happening and how to
avoid it.
Any ideas?