It's been a long night (morning?) here at Village Medical. I tried to play with sync after we closed and I am just glad to have my old data back including Imported Items. It turns out that the instructions some of us were not so sure about were written by an AC tech and not some fellow user. So all our guesses were possibly way off although both Bert and I are still not so sure about how all of this should play out. I tried to use Sync to first copy the server data over to the laptop and almost blew out our original AC. Thank goodness for doing back ups before trying something brave or foolish. In the end I had to copy and paste back our original Schedule and Imported Items. By trying to copy the data this way, it cleaned out the Imported Items!!! and it doubled up each and every appointment in the schedule. Very Strange.
So tech support says the Sync can not be used to copy the original data to the naked laptop. That each and every time you want to travel with a fresh copy of the main database it is manual copy and paste time from the server to the laptop. Not sure when I will mess with this again after tonight's experience. So my other question is since none of us caught it; How does one know if a Wiki Post is written by AC themselves verses some well intended although possibly no smarter than we user??? Perhaps these should have some sort of a moderator, mothership type title on them so that we all know that it is not just some other user taking his best guess. Big thanks to Bert for being "On-Call" as my tech support tonight. Anyway Gotta run, I'm pretty burnt here. Have a good night.
Paul
