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FRatlanta

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Importing previous version's formulas
« on: June 01, 2013, 11:31:44 AM »
Hello Corey and others,

A few days ago I upgraded to the newer version of TD, and the first day it worked great - all my formulas and databases were correct.

However, today when I tried to export some points for the website, I noticed none of my formulas were there.  I'm now also seeing that my database isn't showing my players.  I've been searching through this forum and did see something about how re-opening v2 might replace preferences or something.

Anyway, this should be a simple fix since I did a backup before installing the new version.  So, all I need to know now is how to import all those preferences from the backup.  How do I do this?

Thanks!

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Re: Importing previous version's formulas
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2013, 11:35:17 AM »
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Expected.  Even though they install to different folders, they still use the same preferences file and data store config file.  Those files were upgraded as soon as you ran version 3 the first time, and version 2 won't understand them.  To go back to using version 2, you'd have to restore those files from the backup that you created before you upgraded to version 3.  Which you have, because you took a backup before upgrading to version 3.  Like everyone does.  Right? 

And here's the catch: remember I said that even though version 2 and version 3 install to different folders that they use the same preferences file?  If you installed version 3 and ran it, then it upgraded the preferences file.  If you then ran version 2, it would not understand the preferences file and would give you an error (which you probably saw, based on your previous post).  Since version 2 didn't understand the file, it would [internally] created a new, default set of preferences.  Upon exiting version 2, it would have written that new, default set of preferences out to the preferences file.  The same one that version 3 uses.  Now all of your preferences (for either version) have been lost and replaced with a default set of preferences from version 2.

This is exactly what happened to me, for clarity.  So how do I replace those lost default preferences from version 2?

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Re: Importing previous version's formulas
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2013, 12:17:18 PM »
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Expected.  Even though they install to different folders, they still use the same preferences file and data store config file.  Those files were upgraded as soon as you ran version 3 the first time, and version 2 won't understand them.  To go back to using version 2, you'd have to restore those files from the backup that you created before you upgraded to version 3.  Which you have, because you took a backup before upgrading to version 3.  Like everyone does.  Right? 

And here's the catch: remember I said that even though version 2 and version 3 install to different folders that they use the same preferences file?  If you installed version 3 and ran it, then it upgraded the preferences file.  If you then ran version 2, it would not understand the preferences file and would give you an error (which you probably saw, based on your previous post).  Since version 2 didn't understand the file, it would [internally] created a new, default set of preferences.  Upon exiting version 2, it would have written that new, default set of preferences out to the preferences file.  The same one that version 3 uses.  Now all of your preferences (for either version) have been lost and replaced with a default set of preferences from version 2.

This is exactly what happened to me, for clarity.  So how do I replace those lost default preferences from version 2?

This is referring to someone who had version 2, installed version 3 and tried it out, then decided to continue using version 2 instead of upgrading to version 3.  Version 3 understands version 2 files.  But version 2 doesn't understand version 3 files.  When you have version 2 and then download, install, and run version 3, it will upgrade your preferences, your player database, and any files you load AND save with it.  When you go back to using version 2, version 2 won't understand the new format of the preferences file, database, or any of the files that were SAVED with version 3.

There isn't any need to import files from version 2 because version 3 treats version 2 files the same way it treats version 3 files.  They should just work.  You just load them like any other files.

You can restore a backup from version 2. That should work just fine.  But be aware that if the backup contains your database, it will overwrite your existing database.  This may or may not be what you want.  And from have you lost formulas?  This matters because stats formulas are stored in the preferences, and tournament formulas (points for playing) are saved with tournaments.  You might want to simply unzip a backup file somewhere (other than the TD's data folder) and load a saved tournament from it...

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Re: Importing previous version's formulas
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2013, 12:37:20 PM »
Right, I understand that.  And when I first opened and ran the new version, everything was there as it should be.

But now I'm missing things.  It actually looks like my database is now loading correctly (just taking long than usual).  But the stats profile I created in the previous version is not there.  And it appears none of my previous preferences are loading either (but they did a few days ago). 

Is there a simple way I can just drag and drop the backup preferences into the correct folder for it to read?

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Re: Importing previous version's formulas
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2013, 02:34:27 PM »
Is there a simple way I can just drag and drop the backup preferences into the correct folder for it to read?

Sure.  Use Winzip or 7-Zip to open the backup archive and find the prefs.sav file.  Your preferences are stored in %DOCUMENTS%\The Tournament Director 2.  Assuming you're using Windows 7 and Windows login is FRatlanta, this would be:

C:\Users\FRatlanta\Documents\The Tournament Director 2

In that folder you'll find the prefs.sav file.  Make sure the TD isn't running, then copy prefs.sav from the archive into that folder and start up the TD again.