System Restore in WinXP

[Ed Wallick]

While working on one of the network machines, I used a restore disk that had only Membership on it. It appears to have put all records back in time to perhaps ver. 8.5. I did a system restore on that machine back to this morning at 5:36AM. It seemed to work just fine but in going into PC+9 I'm still looking at old records. I then went to the server and looked into the files and they too, had old records. I did a system restore on XP but the records still look the same.

Now that I am away from the church and am home I'm wondering if the PC+9 icon could be pointing the the old 8.5 version. I will want to check that tomorrow - I left the computers turned off with instructions not to use them until I return.

Any words of encouragement will be welcomed.

Ed

[NeilZ]

While working on one of the network machines, I used a restore disk that had only Membership on it. It appears to have put all records back in time to perhaps ver. 8.5. I did a system restore on that machine back to this morning at 5:36AM. It seemed to work just fine but in going into PC+9 I'm still looking at old records. I then went to the server and looked into the files and they too, had old records. I did a system restore on XP but the records still look the same.

Now that I am away from the church and am home I'm wondering if the PC+9 icon could be pointing the the old 8.5 version. I will want to check that tomorrow - I left the computers turned off with instructions not to use them until I return.

Any words of encouragement will be welcomed.

Ed

A few things:

1. a WinXP system restore will do nothing for PC+ data files. WinXP restore will only restore system files (or what it thinks are system files).

2. Anything you restore via a networked machine, will update the main data files. They all use the same database, there are no individual machine databases, everything is linked to the main server.

3. An older version backup cannot be restored to a newer version's database. That is, you cannot restore 8.5 files when on 9.0.

So, what probably happened was that you restored to the first backup taken after the conversion from version 8.5. As far as encouragement, I'm not sure I have much to give you. Hopefully, you have a more recent backup (say within the past week or so) that you can restore, then you won't have as much to recreate.