Re: HHEELLPP!!!!!

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:27:36 +0000, Kay Robinson
<Kay_Robinson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:05:37 +0000, Charles Ellson
<charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sharpened a new quill and scratched:

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:02:57 -0000, "Roger Mills"
<watt.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Alan Holmes <alan.holmes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Before I got the present computer, I had installed on the old one
Brothers Keeper, which I had used quite successful for a long time, I
haven't got it on the present machine, but I tried to install it on
this one, but the machine does not seem to want to know anything
about the programme.
How can I view all the detail I have on floppy discs?

I had put a lot of work into accumulating all the data, but it seems
it has all been wasted.

Alan

Can you be a bit more explicit about what happens when you try to install BK
on your new computer?

What operating system are you running? What OS did the old one have?

I've never used BK, so I don't know how the program formats its data - it
may use a proprietary binary format, in which case it will only be readable
by BK itself. On the other hand, it may be just text - in which case you may
be able to open the files with something like Notepad. If you can do that,
the data is unlikely to have its proper structure but you might at least be
able to make some sense of the raw text.

There's an outside chance that it may save the data in Gedcom format (or you
may have exported it in Gedcom format). This is a portable format,
understood by many different genealogy programs - so you would be able to
interpret it meaninfully in just about any geneality program, including free
ones like PAF.

The version of BK also needs to be known. The files for the last
couple of versions need to be upgraded between major version numbers
and are not backwards-compatible as the database file-type changed at
least once. The website is on :-
www.bkwin.net
with Windows versions 5.2 and 6.2 available. Older DOS versions are
probably still lurking in various repositories (and in a box somewhere
in my room).

I have v5 and v6 on my old computer but only v5 on here cos I prefer
it for speed of entry. I did have difficulty transferring it to
WindozeXP. I solved it by using the original freebie version,
installing it, then put in my access code, and only when that was
done, transferred my files over. All works well.

While we're mentioning XP, it is usually necessary to run BK 6 using
Administrator rights.
.

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