Going from 2 PCs to 1

[david_howkins]

Hi, don't know if anyone can help on this one?

I have been using Catalog V4 on 2 machines. 1 set-up for designing, the other for downloading and handling orders (2 different locations).

Now I want to move the whole shebang onto the second machine (ie the order one).

I know I can take a copy of the site1 folder and move it across to machine 2 - but surely this will blat the historical order information that is stored in catalog on that machine.

Anyone can tell me how I can move across, but retain the order information in the target machine?

rgds
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[cdicken]

This is really hard in v4, but very simply in v5 and v6. So, one simple answer is 'upgrade', but I imagine you don't want to hear that.

You can copy across all images and templates easily enough from your upload machine to your download machine, and then re-enable 'Catalog Maintenance' in 'Business Settings | Options'. The problem is getting your product data up to date.

The way I could do it is open up your ActinicCatalog.mdb database in Access. Then, do a right click on the 'Product' table and select 'Save As / Export'. Save it as a Excel file.

Then open the file in Excel and save it as a CSV file. This file can then be imported via the import wizard, by doing an update.

This will stick all your up-to-date product date into the database. You will then need to sort it into sections and subsections.

[david_howkins]

Thanks for this. A related supplementary though......

When moving the catalogue to the new PC, do I have to also copy across all the graphics used (ie for products) and more importantly, do they have to be located in a folder structure the same as on the source PC?

Rgds
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[cdicken]

Absolutely. Hopefully, all your images were either within your 'Site1' folder or else within subfolders in 'Site1', because that way your store will all be set up with relative paths.