Horse notes

[DFK]

I have transferred my horse notes from the tagadab desktop by copy and paste onto my normal windows desktop, but i can't get them to appear on the program. I have gone into files in preferences and pointed at my notes, but they will not appear. Any ideas Mark?
Regards DFK.

[GaryRussell]

Are you absolutely sure the directory you have specified in BA matches where the file is located? It's the only thing I can think of.

[DFK]

I can only imagine it is a computer fault, i have uninstalled the program; still no change

[GaryRussell]

What is the exact folder name you have entered in BA?

[DFK]

The horse notes database folder is C:\Documents and Settings\MR SMITH\HORSE NOTES and the actual horse notes folder on the desktop is of course HORSE NOTES

[GaryRussell]

If you click the Windows start button, click "Run program", enter "C:\Documents and Settings\MR SMITH\HORSE NOTES" does it open a folder containing the notes file?

If you have Vista or Windows 7 then you enter the folder name in "Search programs and files" instead of clicking "Run program".

[DFK]

No Gary, it isn't finding them

[GaryRussell]

It doesn't sound like it is the right folder. If the folder is on the desktop then the folder name will be something like "C:\Documents and Settings\MR SMITH\Desktop\HORSE NOTES". Does that work?

[DFK]

That is exactly what it says, no joy

[GaryRussell]

Sorry I give up. I am convinced you haven't entered the folder name in BA where the file actually is. The fact it won't open the folder from the start menu backs this theory up.

Try copying the file BA_Horse_Notes.xml to the folder "C:\temp". Then enter "C:\temp" as the location in BA. If this works then it proves it's not BA failing to read the file.

[2020vision]

Hi

maybe this is just too simple but in Options>Preferences>Files why can you
not simply "browse" to the correct folder - or am I missing something?

Ttfn - Michael

P.S. As you say - if you already did this then are you sure the "notes" are
actually there? (including correct file extension - test by making new note)?

[DFK]

Thanks very much for your time.
I created a new text document, copied all the data in the XML file into the new text document and re-saved it as an XML file. I then renamed the file back to the original BA_Horse_notes.xml and put it into a folder on the desktop. It now works fine. I think there is a problem copying it straight from Tagadab onto Windows XP as it works fine copying from Tagadab to Windows Vista.

Regards, DFK