I took your advice, and turned the computer off at approx 1:00 am. It would have taken a while to answer your posting, but on reflection, it may have saved an awful lot of trouble if I'd done it there and then.
Everything I worked on in the last weeks seems to be lost
Since you only upgraded to IG Pro 5 yesterday, all your work should be intact in your previous IG pro installation Iasbell.
Since this has become a support problem, and since it is a problem specific to your installation, we shall take this off-line and deal with your problems quickly by email.
To start the email support, Isabell, please send me an email with your current status, and we'll take it from there (off-line from the forum).
When "sorted", we can resume this thread.
Heres answers to the questions in your postings above:
I don't know how to get around that, aside of getting another flash drive. It doesn't like 2 folders with the same name, I don't think there is a way around that, is there?
At this stage, you had created a folder structure called igdata_sets
You appeared to be trying to create a second folder of the same name.
You cant do that (Windows doesnt allow you to create 2 folders of the same name)
More importantly, You dont need to do that!
Once you've got the igdata_sets folder created, you open that folder (using My Computer, or Windows Explorer), and create sub folders within it
To make the first SWAP folder, create a folder called FLOWERS (ANY name will do)
If you need 2 SWAP folders, create a second folder called VEG (again ANY name will do)
You now have 2 folders UNDER the folder igdata_sets
The paths to the folders you have created are:
c:\igdata_sets\FLOWERS
and
c:\igdata_sets\VEG
Now you have to open EACH of the folders, and create sub folders within them, as follows
Open c:\igdata_sets\FLOWERS (using My Computer, or Windows Explorer)
Create a folder called igdata (it MUST be that name exactly- to work as a SWAP)
The path to the folder you have created is:
c:\igdata_sets\FLOWERS\igdata
Now go up, open VEG folder, and create an igdata folder in the VEG folder
Open c:\igdata_sets\VEG (using My Computer, or Windows Explorer)
Create a folder called igdata (it MUST be that name exactly- to work as a SWAP)
The path to the folder you have created is:
c:\igdata_sets\VEG\igdata
Use GA196. Point Backup No 1 to c:\igdata_sets\FLOWERS\igdata, and point Backup No 2 to c:\igdata_sets\VEG\igdata
Use GA201 to backup to c:\igdata_sets\FLOWERS\igdata when using the FLOWERS database
Use GA201 to backup to c:\igdata_sets\VEG\igdata when using the VEG database
Next question:
another problem, now I upgraded and I got the folders from my old IG pro in there, but when I want to switch to my other backup I get this message
>>>There is a Database Version mismatch
Core Database Version : 5
SWITCH database version: 3
Once you upgrade to Version 5, the program does allow you to use older version databases, but gives that warning. Its for your own protection.
If you want to use (and add/edit/delete) it in IG Pro Version 5, then the database should to be upgraded to 5.
RE:
For some reason the IG Pro 5 changed every database into the flower garden database, and I did not do any backup through the program. It did it all on its own. all I did was trying to switch to the vegetable data base when it gave me that message.
I would like to assure users that this does not happen "all on its own".
We shall establish what the problem when we take this off line, so as not to cause more confusion here
RE
That upgrade did not go so well.
This problem has nothing to do with the upgrade Isabell
Again, We shall establish what the problem when we take this off line, so as not to cause more confusion here
