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Updating files to another computer
May 6th, 2006 at 4:43pm
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I have 2 offices which are not networked. In office #1 most work is done, with an occassionl visit to office #2. I purchased a new computer last year just as i setup Sesame. Since I didnt want to lose contact with any Q&A files I partitoned my hard drive. Q&A is stored in the C:\ drive and everything else is stored in the E:\ drive. Now when I want to update computer #2 in office #2 the issue i face is that the applications in computer #1 are programmed with the E:\ drive so if I copy the applications to a flash drive and then replace same files into computer #2 I have to change the programming from E:\ to C:\. A pain in the ............ The other choice is to export all records to a .txt file from computer #1 and then delete all records in each application in computer #2 and then import those files from computer #1.
Is there a simpler solution?????????

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Re: Updating files to another computer
Reply #1 - May 6th, 2006 at 7:27pm
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Thanks for the quick response,
I'm still a beginner........so here's what I tried and the error message I received:

I basically backuped the application I was using to a new application and "sort of" used your suggestion


The orignal programming is below
var vDataPath as String = "e:\sesame\data\cwemp.txt"
var vDocsPath as String = "e:\sesame\docs\"
var vWordPath as String = "e:\sesame\word.bat"

I changed it to this:
var vDataPath as String = "sesame\data\cwemp.txt"
var vDocsPath as String = "sesame\docs\"
var vWordPath as String = "sesame\word.bat"

So when I tried to do a mail merge I received this error message:

       sesame\docs\Contract.doc  doesn't exist

       Aw  shucks!

Where did i go wrong??

Peter



  
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Re: Updating files to another computer
Reply #2 - May 6th, 2006 at 9:18pm
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Thanks for the quick response,
I'm still a beginner........so here's what I tried and the error message I received:

I basically backuped the application I was using to a new application and "sort of" used your suggestion


The orignal programming is below
var vDataPath as String = "e:\sesame\data\cwemp.txt"
var vDocsPath as String = "e:\sesame\docs\"
var vWordPath as String = "e:\sesame\word.bat"

I changed it to this:
var vDataPath as String = "sesame\data\cwemp.txt"
var vDocsPath as String = "sesame\docs\"
var vWordPath as String = "sesame\word.bat"

So when I tried to do a mail merge I received this error message:

       sesame\docs\Contract.doc  doesn't exist

       Aw  shucks!

Where did i go wrong??

Peter


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var vDataPath as String = "sesame\data\cwemp.txt"
var vDocsPath as String = "sesame\docs\"
var vWordPath as String = "sesame\word.bat"
 



You probably want this:
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var vDataPath as String = "\sesame\data\cwemp.txt"
var vDocsPath as String = "\sesame\docs\"
var vWordPath as String = "\sesame\word.bat"
 



That will make the paths absolute (start at the "root" of the harddrive).
  

Mark Lasersohn&&Programmer&&Lantica Software, LLC
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