These questions relate to the differences between the implementations on various platforms.
The recommended way to upgrade to InterMapper on another platform is to follow these steps:
It is also possible to copy your InterMapper Settings folder and maps directly from one platform to another. This will preserve the attached notifiers for devices in your maps, but the procedure is slightly more complicated:
If you are running InterMapper "traditional" on a pre-Mac OS X system (ie Mac OS 9.2 or earlier), you will need to convert your preferences file ("InterMapper Prefs"). The easiest way to do this is to run InterMapper on Mac OS X -- start up the program and quit it -- InterMapper will fix up the file so it is cross-platform.
If you have any icon files in your "Custom Icons" folder, you will need to convert these to "data-fork" based resource files. You can use the Custom Icon Conversion Script on a MacOS X computer to convert the file format. If that's not convenient, then send a note to support@dartware.com. We will do the conversion and return the new file to you.
You must double-check your modem pager settings on the new platform; the location of the modem device stored in the preferences file will be completely different.
All of the other files should transfer without any problems.
There is a droplet that converts resource-based icons (used by the Classic/MacOS 8-9 versions) to a "data-fork" version that works on OS X. You can retrieve the droplet from: http://www.intermapper.com/binaries/Convert_Custom_Icon_File.sit
Drag your icon files onto this droplet program, and they will be converted to a form usable by the MacOS X version of InterMapper. Drag the resulting files to the /Library/Application Support/InterMapper Settings/Custom Icons folder.
The easiest way to stop InterMapper's polling for a while is to disable all the maps. To do this:
When using the Traditional InterMapper on MacOS X, simply quit the application. That will stop the polling. If you're using one of the server-based InterMapper versions (on OSX, Windows, or Unix/Linux), you'll need to stop the InterMapper service/daemon separately from InterMapper or InterMapper RemoteAccess.
On Windows installations, use InterMapper Control Center to start, stop, or restart the InterMapper service.
On all Unix/Linux/MacOSX installations, InterMapper installs a script to control the server daemon. The script should be invoked with one of these commands:
This script will be installed in different directories, depending on the operating system.
Each server-based version of InterMapper comes with its own uninstaller. Find the original distribution file (or retrieve the current version) and use its uninstall feature.