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[Carles Millan]

Hi!

1. Store all your photos in the same folder. If it is not your case, create a new folder, no matter its name, and put there a copy from each one of your photos.

2. Then open the program, go to the Utilities > Preferences menu item, and fill the 'Images Folder' box by clicking on the attached button.

3. Open the File > Edit menu item of any specimen, click on the button next to 'Image 1' and select the picture associated with the specimen on screen.

4. And now let's go to the Windows 7's nags (Bill Gates is not known for making things easy). You should open Windows as an Administrator, and make sure you follow the recommendations contained in the point #54 in Q&A.

Let me know.

Good luck!

[chris]

Hi Philip,

I'm not using Carles program, nor Windows 7 (I'm a linux fan) but there is something you can have a look at by the time Carles answers you. Since Vista, Microsoft unleashed a "right" policy to control applications needing writing rights to prevent potential threats to damage a computer.

Sometimes you need to explicitely allow a program to run with privilege rights to get writing grants. From memory, under vista you have to first select the program icon, then click on the right button and select the option "run as administrator". You should be able to find easliy a similar command under 7. Another guess :unlike previous home version of Widnows, 7 is a 64 BITS operating system not a 32 bits. As a result some applications working properly under a 32 bits Windows version no longer work under a 64 bits. If this is the case here, there might be no other option than to wait until Carles fixes the issue.

Hope it helps

Christophe

[Carles Millan]

[kappe]

Hi Carles,

I am using your program for some time now and it is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much for the program!

However, I have one suggestion for improving it. Can you make sorting by ID numerical instead of textual. So you will get 1, 2, 3, ...10, etc instead of 1, 10, 100, 2, 3, 4, etc?

Perhaps I am overlooking something and it is already possible. If so, can someone tell me how to do a numerical ID sort. Thanks!

Regards,
Guido

[Carles Millan]

[alex chaus]

[jaysminerals]

Hello Carles

Due to a virus I had to set up my computer completely new. So I first made an backup to an external drive and then set up the computer new. After that I followed instruction #12 on your website:

12. How to proceed if I ever need to restore the backup copy?

Close the program and copy all the files from the folder where the backup is to the folder where the program is installed, allowing to overwrite all. You can learn which the backup folder is by opening the Utilities | Preferences menu item. Your files will be found inside a folder with a name equal to the day of the month inside another folder named Minerals.bak that must be inside it.

So I installed the newest version and then copied the files from the backup into the
folder you said in the instruction. But it did not work. The minerals and the index do not show up?!

Do you have an solution?
Thanks
Juergen

[Carles Millan]

[jaysminerals]

Hmm.... somehow it is now all messed up. I uninstalled the program and wanted to reinstall it, but it is now not working anymore. It show this mistake right away.
The backup folder has 432kb and the mb file is 142kb.
But I do not want to steal your time with my lousy computer.

Could it also be a problem that I made the backup with an older version and now installed a newer one?

[Carles Millan]

But did you try a reindex? Do it as recommended in the FAQs page.

What are the sizes of the file minerals.db in the program folder and in the backup copy folder?

[rockhoundmike]

I seem to have a problem. Saved my information to a memory stick but when I plug into another computer there is no information to retrieve. Also when I download the new version how do I transfer the information located in the last version.

[Carles Millan]

[rockhoundmike]

I use the drag method...do I have to save it to a file first then to a stick..I am not the best with computers

[Carles Millan]

[Tom Mazanec]

Well, the site is still online after all this time.
And I see you are approaching your star...maybe this post will help you over the million view hurdle!