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Hi - I am currently trying to find out how to overcome a problem recently experienced and was hoping someone could help...

We have sage installed on two PCs (one laptop, one main PC) and have been happilly sharing backups between the two for some time.

Now as far as I understand it, you can change things in sage, close it down and the data will be there the next day when you open it (a bit like MS Word doing "auto save", but being able to remember the changes between each session, not just the current session). If you then want to permanently save this data, you must do a backup (like saving the MS Word document to the network somewhere where you get a file name etc)

Recently, our laptop broke, but the hard drive was salvaged. It is currently plugged into the side of the main PC which recognises it as "another drive".

I need to know whether or not the data that sage was "auto saving" can be brought back up on the PC from files existing on the laptop drive plugged into the side of the main PC. Again, the last backup was a while ago and doofus didn't back up the changes made recently, however I would have thought this data is recoverble since the entire hard drive is sat here with me - even the old windows XP settings for the laptop will be on it somewhere...

So, although the data was not backed up, theoretically it MUST be on here somewhere as sage saves between sessions... right? and therefore recoverable? (somehow?!)

Any/all help appreciated...


P.S. I am using v12.00 of sageon XP machines

Um, not quite right, but you are not far off either.

The solution is to locate the ACCDATA directory.

Copy the contents into the same directory on the other PC and you are done,.

BACKUP first and make sure you copy to/from the right machine!!!!

Bruce - if this works, I will send you a virtual pint through the ether...