How to reset Frame's Default Configuration

[Combs, Richard]

Thomas, Lynn wrote:
 
> I inadvertently converted my user variables to text in one of my
> documents. 

*All* user variables? How? Via Special > Variable, you'd have to do them one at a time. 

> I luckily had a another copy of the document stored
> elsewhere so I simply replaced my document. Unfortunately, I am still
> unable to edit user variables. 

When you go to Special > Variable, and in the Variable dialog, select a user variable and click Edit Definition, does the Edit User Variable dialog open? IOW, what step in editing user variables are you unable to do? 

> It seems that this dumb change I made
> was to FrameMaker (version 9, p255) and not to the actual document. I
> looked in the maker.ini file to see if there was a setting I could
> change and revert back to its original configuration but I didn't see
> anything related to variables. 

That's because there isn't anything variable-related in maker.ini, and there's no variable-related dumb change that you could have made to FM. Can you edit the file? (It's possible to accidentally put a file into read-only mode, but then you can't edit the text either.)

> I also tried replacing the maker.ini
> file with a backup but that didn't work either. I did find a setting
> for variables in the mif2rtf.ini file , and changed it to
> ConvertVariables=No but again, that didn't change anything. 

Whoa, you're way off base here -- mif2rtf.ini is a Mif2Go config file, not an FM config file. It governs the conversion process when you use Mif2Go to export an FM file to Word. 

> I then
> completely uninstalled FrameMaker and reinstalled it but it is still
> keeping my original configuration and will not let me edit my user
> variables. Does anyone know how I can reset Frame to its original
> default configuration or at least get the option to edit my user
> variables back?

Re-installsheimer's disease, as Dov Isaacs calls it. Your problem isn't an FM install/config problem. But I think you need to clarify exactly what steps you take and what doesn't work before anyone can help you. 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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