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WARNING RE FLIGHT CHECK

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relate2

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Aug 21, 2001
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Just a serious WORD OF WARNING if you try the demo of Flight Check. I just tried it out on this book I am editing for a friend of mine and IT DELETED ALL OF THE FILES....yes all gone, 250 pages and 6 months work.

Lucky for me I am very particular about backups on top of backups and I was not affected.

They are kind enough to mention on the website that I downloaded the demo from that the demo can cause problems on some machines. Unfortunately they have placed the warning down the bottom of their page way past the download link...SO BE WARNED MAKE SURE YOU HAVE RECENT BACKUPS BEFORE YOU TRY THIS PROGRAM IN DEMO MODE.
 
EDIT======> Well I found an email for the company and I was pleasantly suprised that I received a prompt reply to my email. They were polite and stated that there is nothing in their software that would delete the original files.

Well I tried to re-create the problem and could not, the original file stayed where it was. I say again though the file did disappear when I used the program so there could possibly be a different reason although on my newly built system in top order with no previous problems maybe it is just that "The Moon is in the wrong Phase" and just one of those things. Who knows, I just thought I needed to post this as I could not reproduce the error and to be fair to the company I wanted to let you know.
 
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