How to "Move" an installed JET / MDAC based application...

[Guest RJK]

....from one PC to another, without installing it from scratch ?

 

Background:-

An "aged" MEGGER software "certificate printing" appplication, that looks

like it was created with, or is some form of "Microsoft Access" JET/MDAC

based application, and which looks to me like it uses the older 1992 onwards

"JET" form of MDAC ...and which contains lots of documents that were

created within it. i.e. ...there's a \Megger\certificates\ directory

containing lots of *.aff files).

....need to be transplanted to a new PC.

 

An added complication is that this MEGGER Powersuite software is used in

conjunction with MS "Activesync," which retrieves documents from HP iPAQ

hand-held Palmtops within the MEGGER Powersuite Professional application on

the PC.

 

Is there such a thing, that someone can reccommend, that can "move" an

installed HEAP OF RUBBISH, such as this "Megger" software from one PC to

another ?

I call it that because there is nothing provided in the MEGGER "application"

to "export" documents, (which look like they are "indexed" in some fashion

or antother by JET), for "import" into a replacement MEGGER installation.

 

e.g. would something like this work http://www.spearit.com/about_MoveMe.html

?

 

....any help hugely appreciated,

 

regards, Richard

 

ps please don't laugh but, we tried installing the "MEGGER Powersuite

Professional" application into the new PC, and then copying the "old" MEGGER

directory structure - containing files onto the new PC, (overwriting the

freshly installed MEGGER dir. structure),

....needless to say, the MEGGER application cannot see all the *.aff files.

....i.e. JET / or MDAC indexing nightmare ?

[Guest RJK]

Re: How to "Move" an installed JET / MDAC based application...

 

....well thnx for all the help ! ...it turned out to be as simple as

installing the original "Access" based "application" into the new PC afresh,

....then overwriting the new \?\?\certificates directory, with the

"Certificates" directory and its' contents, from the "relegated" computer,

....and also copying (and overwriting) an *.mdb file, located in the same

directory as the "Certificates" directory,

....and all works beautifully.

 

This was thanks to "Megger" technical help, which costs a lot, but, was

obviously essential because they built the Access database application

without any facilities to "export" and "import," (or "move" if you prefer),

user created files from an aged "Megger Powersuite Professional"

installation, to a "new" installation of that same "Access application,"

into a new PC ! ...if you follow me ! :-)

 

I've played with Access lots of times, across the past couple of decades,

and always came to the conclusion that it was a complicated heap of C**P !

This view has been confirmed by dealing with an Access "Application" that

requires, very expensive support from those that built, and know how to use,

it !

 

It would have been much less expensive for the owner to have built his own

database system with something like "MasterFile PC," written by John

Campbell of "Campbell Systems," (from many years ago).

The WHOLE, ....or if you prefer, ...the ENTIRE database program consisted of

a SINGLE 32k *.exe file, written in Assember !!!!!!

....and it could sort thousands of records, on an ancient 8086 - 8mhz cpu in

SECONDS FLAT !!!

 

Admittedly, each MFPC.exe "user created" database file could only hold

32,768 records but, it was a "relational" database system, and the

"displays," (roughly equivalent to "forms" in Access, ..i think), were

stored in each *.mft file, (i think that was the filetype), along with

the scripts that one could create to perform arithmetical and other

calculations across records, in each database file. !

 

Gosh ! if that program was run on my "old" D935 cpu based machine, your work

would be finished LONG before you even started !!!

 

regards, Richard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"RJK" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> ...from one PC to another, without installing it from scratch ?

>

> Background:-

> An "aged" MEGGER software "certificate printing" appplication, that looks

> like it was created with, or is some form of "Microsoft Access" JET/MDAC

> based application, and which looks to me like it uses the older 1992

> onwards "JET" form of MDAC ...and which contains lots of documents that

> were created within it. i.e. ...there's a \Megger\certificates\ directory

> containing lots of *.aff files).

> ...need to be transplanted to a new PC.

>

> An added complication is that this MEGGER Powersuite software is used in

> conjunction with MS "Activesync," which retrieves documents from HP iPAQ

> hand-held Palmtops within the MEGGER Powersuite Professional application

> on the PC.

>

> Is there such a thing, that someone can reccommend, that can "move" an

> installed HEAP OF RUBBISH, such as this "Megger" software from one PC to

> another ?

> I call it that because there is nothing provided in the MEGGER

> "application" to "export" documents, (which look like they are "indexed"

> in some fashion or antother by JET), for "import" into a replacement

> MEGGER installation.

>

> e.g. would something like this work

> http://www.spearit.com/about_MoveMe.html ?

>

> ...any help hugely appreciated,

>

> regards, Richard

>

> ps please don't laugh but, we tried installing the "MEGGER Powersuite

> Professional" application into the new PC, and then copying the "old"

> MEGGER directory structure - containing files onto the new PC,

> (overwriting the freshly installed MEGGER dir. structure),

> ...needless to say, the MEGGER application cannot see all the *.aff

> files.

> ...i.e. JET / or MDAC indexing nightmare ?

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