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Where are the Bank Genie Programs and Data files?
On the main menu Help tab, start the program About Bank Genie
The program name is
BS400
Vital information about your installation is shown in the initial screen
Screenshot BS400S01-1
When you install
Bank Genie, all the necessary DATA files are installed in one single folder
We shall refer to this folder as the Core Data folder
Screenshot CoreData
What happens when I open another database?
When you open another Bank Genie database, Bank Genie closes your live data files and opens files of the same name in the other folder.
The Vital
Information about the locations of your data files now look like this:
Screenshot BS400S01-2
NOTE:
Some Core Data
files remain open at all times, even when you open another database.
These are referred to as static files.
Files which keep track of your User Preferences
are one simple example of Static files.
Thus, your User Preferences (Font, Font size, Screen sizes and positions etc) are not affected when you use multiple
databases.
Background to the origin of this program
Once upon a time (all good stories start like that) software developers could store all
files related to an application (such as Bank Genie) in one folder.
This was great for the developer, but not for the user. Their prime concern was to be able
to backup their precious data, and if the data was in the same folder as the program files (referred to as executables) then they had to back up everything to be
on the safe side.
The introduction of Windows Vista changed all that. In brief, programs and data are not permitted to reside in the same folder.
In my
experience, product support (for products by ideasforgardens.com) became much more difficult, as navigating to the file locations demanded by the UAC (User Account Control) was beyond the capability of those less adept in finding their way around folder structures.
The program About Bank Genie
was developed to ease the pain.
In one single screen, the user is shown the location of the programs and data files for Bank Genie.
A Print button is provided, so a hard copy printout can be retained for reference.
Downloading and Installing Updates to the File set
Referring to Screenshot BS400S01-4
Click
the Help button for instructions.
In this instance (unlike installing Program Updates) you dont have to close Bank Genie to install the files.
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