Upgrade Key, etc. File

[haroldef]

On 2/2/2011 11:08 AM, daN baueR wrote:
> Are you attempting to restructure the file's field structure or add a 
> new output with an associated processing table?  I would not recommend 
> sending a new key file.  That would delete any data entered or updated 
> since your copy was made.
>
> Dan
>

Hi,  Thanks for your reply.  This key file holds all men who served on 
the USS McCaffery from 1945-1973, and data about them.  We have one man, 
Bill,  who tries to find members  who served on board.  We have about 
1220 members out of about 5000 who served.  When Bill finds lost members 
he adds them and updates those of us that have filepro (legal copies).  
At that time Bill sent a PKZIP file that recreated the complete MAC 
folder.  When I made a change in the program, I made sure I had the 
latest updates before sending the PKZIP file.  That was a very easy way 
for Bill and I to update everyone.

I am now training people to take over from me, and others so that we can 
retire---we need younger people to take over.  So I am thinking about 
having them send updated individual files, like key, .prc, .out, .sel,, 
and the like.  And I need to find the easiest way for them to update 
their files.  One guy has to have his wife help him do things on his 
computer.

It's terrible to get old.

Harold

> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM, haroldef <haroldef at sbcglobal.net 
> <mailto:haroldef at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I am using Win 7 and have filepro in c:\appl\filepro.  When one has to
>     send an email with an attached upgrade to a program used in
>     filepro--when the receiver of the update is unskilled with
>     computers---What is the easiest way to upgrade files in, for example,
>     filepro\mac\key or filepro\mac\onbydate.prc, etc.
>
>     I had one thought, and tried it out, which was to send myself an email
>     that had an attachment which I renamed to:
>     C:\appl\filepro\mac\keytest.
>
>     When I received the email the attachment name was
>     c:\appl\filepro\mac\keytest, so I right clicked and did a save as.
>
>     The attachment went to c:\appl\filepro\mac and had the name
>     c--appl-filepro-mac-keytest.
>
>     This actually worked when I changed the name from
>     c--appl-filepro-mac-keytest to just key.  Of course I renamed the key
>     file to something like keyhold, so that if the upgrade failed, I could
>     just rename keyhold to key and be back in business.
>
>     What is the simplest way to upgrade an unskilled user?  Any one have a
>     better way?
>
>     Maybe I can have the receiver rename the key file to keyhold, and have
>     the update end in just mac\key, so the receiver could just eliminate
>     everything before the word key.
>
>     Harold
>
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