Atrex was designed to make upgrading from earlier versions
as easy as possible by installing over top of the existing installation
of an older version and then allowing Atrex itself to perform the data
conversion. But when upgrading and moving to a new system, it may not be
possible to do an upgrade over a older version. The following are the
steps required to move data from an older version into a clean installation of
Atrex 13 without having to install the older version first.
1. With Windows explorer, locate the data folder that the
older version of Atrex is pointing to. If you do not know where your data
is located and are running Atrex 10 or older, or versions 11 or 12 with a direct
connection, the data path will be displayed in the "Options - System
Information" function. If you are running a client/server connection
with version 11 or 12, you will need to open up the database administrator to
determine the path to the data folder.
2. Select all of the files in the data folder, excluding any
folders.
3. Right click on one of the selected files and select "Send
To - Compressed Folder". This will create a single compressed file
that contains all of the selected files. The file will be named the first
file selected and will be given a file extension of .ZIP.
4. Locate the newly created zip file. Copy this file
to the new computer either through your network or using a USB flash
drive.
5. On the new system, close Atrex if it is open.
6. With Windows explorer, locate the
data folder where Atrex is pointing to. By default, this is in the
\Program Files\Atrex\Shared\Data folder.
7. Empty out the contents of this folder.
8. Locate the ZIP file that contains the older version data,
right click on it and select "Open" from the popup menu.
9. Copy the contents of the ZIP file to the new data
folder.
10. Start Atrex 13. When prompted for the
conversion, allow it to start. When the conversion is complete, Atrex will
restart with all of your data from the older version.
Article ID: 59, Created On: 1/2/2012, Modified: 1/2/2012