sage 50 accounts (shared drives)

[howard2504]

Hi,
I have setup sage 50 accounts on one pc which is working fine.
I have a 2 user licence and have set up a secondary pc with which I wan to access data on the former pc.
I have shared and mapped a drive from the first pc which is now visible on the second.
How do I point the programs on the second pc to the data on the first

Many thanks in anticipation

Howard

[Site4]

Put the path to the shared data in the company file on the second PC.

Version & OS would help us here.

Depending on the version you could also rename the ACCDATA directory and cause the Active Setup Wizard to run.

[howard2504]

I am on windows xp and sage 50 accounts v15
pardon my ignorance but i have a "getting started" screen
from here how do i point the program to the shared data
or should i be doing something during installation

many thanks
Howard

[brucedenney]

Your installation has not gone well.

There was a point where you would have been asked to indicate to age where your data is, unfortunately you missed that and now it has setup a new set of data.

You need to do 2 things.

1/ Share the data on the PC that is going to hold the data

2/ Point sage on the other PC to that data.

Having shared your data you should from the other pc be able to browse to your data from the client pc

eg \\hostpcname\sageshare\subfolder\subfolder\accdata

Make a note of the name (Excluding the final accdata)

On your client pc, go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sage\Accounts\2009
note that "Application Data" is a hidden folder, you either have to enable viewing hidden folders or type the name in the address box (if you have it enabled)

In that folder you will find a file a called company
open it using notepad
it will contain a path to the sage data.
replace that path with the path you noted earlier.

Save the file
start sage and you should be there.