Backups and the X drive
All of you who are using the X drive (which is really soon to be ALL of you...) know that you don't have to do Winzip backups any more. But some of you are used to doing backups to get your data onto a fair computer, for use in importing into Fair Management.
The thing is, you can't create any new files on the X drive, so if you do the "Add to Data.zip" option, you're going to get an error message, because that auto-option wants to write to the same location as the Data folder, and it can't.
The easiest solution is going to be to copy your CountyData folder (the whole folder, not just the files) out to your C or S drive. Do be sure that you COPY, not CUT, that folder!! Once you've copied the CountyData folder to another drive, you can either use Winzip at that point, write a CD, or use a USB flash disk if you need to get the data onto a machine that is not on the network.
There is a way to create a Winzip backup and have it save in a different location "Add to zip", but for most folks, copying the folder and pasting it somewhere else is going to be easier. Winzip doesn't have a terribly user-friendly interface, kind of clunky if you haven't used it a whole lot.
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I didn't have any problems movning the youth enrollment to fair this year. I just went into the fair management and moved the youth over from youth folder and this went very slick for me.
Jan is exactly right. You can merge into Fair Management from the Blue Ribbon data folder. The problem was happening when the computer that was used for Fair Management is NOT on the office network (no access to the S or X drives). Those counties may have used a backup to get the data onto that non-network computer. If your fair computer is hooked up to the network, the merge process will be the same as always.
Posted by: Jan Henningsen | May 12, 2008 04:31 PM