I have a query now in that we have also installed the Donor Manager programme on my wife’s computer too. The thing I would like to do now is to copy the database that I have built up on my computer on to my wife’s computer so that files are the same.
My query therefore is which files contain the data for the programme to use?
Am I right in assuming it is all contained in the donor.dbf file or are there other files also that contain the need info from the database?
First of all, there are a series of data files in c:\donor5\data that contain the data. Actually, all of them are needed to do a total transfer of data from one computer to another. The file donor.dbf contains the partner names and addresses. The notes are in another file (donor.fpt), contributions are in gift.dbf, etc. It's not like Access where all of the various tables of data are contained in just one file.
Now, having said that, the easiest way to do this is to use the Donor Manager "Pack and Go" feature (in fact, that is what this designed for).
Choose this feature on computer #1, and tell it you want to create a "Pack and Go" file. It will create a single, compressed file (default filename is date_donor_data.tza) that can be transferred and imported into computer #2.
You can also create a pack and go file for your photos as well.
On computer 2, also choose "Pack and Go".... tell it you want to import a pack and go file, and it pretty much handles the rest.
I use a USB flash drive to do this and it works great. You can use a CD, email, network, whatever.
FYI: The .tza file is a compressed file containing all of the donor manager data files. It is basically like a zip file (but is not compatable with zip). I often save a .tza file to my Yahoo briefcase account or email it as an attachment to my Hotmail (both of which I use as an online backup). It's a quick way to backup my donor data to an outside data vault.
Now, be aware, this routine does not "synch" the data between the two files (yet.... that's coming), so just one person has the "live" data. Don't make changes in both places ... someone will lose their work.
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