hi all,
Decided to convert over tonight and after reading the boards and the website info I thought I was ready. Now I'm not so sure so wanted to ask while my version 3.7 still works on all my machines
I run all XP clients in my exam rooms, front desk, doc's offices, all of which access the databases on my server, running Windows Server 2003. The copy of AC on the server's C:\ drive is never actually used; all of my desktop client machines access a D:\ drive on the server - my "data partition". It's designated as the S:\ drive on all of the clients. I think many folks have (or had) a similar setup.
This evening, after I downloaded and installed the Version 4 setup.exe program to my server's data drive, I ran it and downloaded everything to the default C:\ drive on the server, where AC lives but where the "real" databases ARE NOT. At this point I can run V4 on the server, but of course none of my data is there. I know I need to back up and re-do, but I just wanted to check here to be sure I do this properly.
I believe I need to do the following:
1. Uninstall version 4 from the server's C:\ drive.
2. Re-run the Setup.exe and point the setup program to my server's D:\ drive next time, instead of the default C:\ drive.
3. Once installed, convert my databases over to SQL and then do the clients.
Now, on my server's data drive, there are several folders, one of which is called "Amazing Charts Data". This is the folder where the amazingcharts.mdb file (and all of the other database files) reside. Do I point the installation program just to the D:\ drive or to the D:\Amazing Charts Data folder?
Thanks for the help in advance. I just really, really don't want to do this and then roll back to 3.7. Hopefully, I haven't screwed it up yet!
Jim
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