How to "Move" an installed JET / MDAC based application...

[RJK]

....from one PC to another, without installing it from scratch ?

Background:-
An "aged" MEGGER software "certificate printing" appplication, that looks
like it was created with, or is some form of "Microsoft Access" JET/MDAC
based application, and which looks to me like it uses the older 1992 onwards
"JET" form of MDAC ...and which contains lots of documents that were
created within it. i.e. ...there's a \Megger\certificates\ directory
containing lots of *.aff files).
....need to be transplanted to a new PC.

An added complication is that this MEGGER Powersuite software is used in
conjunction with MS "Activesync," which retrieves documents from HP iPAQ
hand-held Palmtops within the MEGGER Powersuite Professional application on
the PC.

Is there such a thing, that someone can reccommend, that can "move" an
installed HEAP OF RUBBISH, such as this "Megger" software from one PC to
another ?
I call it that because there is nothing provided in the MEGGER "application"
to "export" documents, (which look like they are "indexed" in some fashion
or antother by JET), for "import" into a replacement MEGGER installation.

e.g. would something like this work http://www.spearit.com/about_MoveMe.html
?

....any help hugely appreciated,

regards, Richard

ps please don't laugh but, we tried installing the "MEGGER Powersuite
Professional" application into the new PC, and then copying the "old" MEGGER
directory structure - containing files onto the new PC, (overwriting the
freshly installed MEGGER dir. structure),
....needless to say, the MEGGER application cannot see all the *.aff files.
....i.e. JET / or MDAC indexing nightmare ?

 

[RJK]

....well thnx for all the help ! ...it turned out to be as simple as
installing the original "Access" based "application" into the new PC afresh,
....then overwriting the new \?\?\certificates directory, with the
"Certificates" directory and its' contents, from the "relegated" computer,
....and also copying (and overwriting) an *.mdb file, located in the same
directory as the "Certificates" directory,
....and all works beautifully.

This was thanks to "Megger" technical help, which costs a lot, but, was
obviously essential because they built the Access database application
without any facilities to "export" and "import," (or "move" if you prefer),
user created files from an aged "Megger Powersuite Professional"
installation, to a "new" installation of that same "Access application,"
into a new PC ! ...if you follow me !

I've played with Access lots of times, across the past couple of decades,
and always came to the conclusion that it was a complicated heap of C**P !
This view has been confirmed by dealing with an Access "Application" that
requires, very expensive support from those that built, and know how to use,
it !

It would have been much less expensive for the owner to have built his own
database system with something like "MasterFile PC," written by John
Campbell of "Campbell Systems," (from many years ago).
The WHOLE, ....or if you prefer, ...the ENTIRE database program consisted of
a SINGLE 32k *.exe file, written in Assember !!!!!!
....and it could sort thousands of records, on an ancient 8086 - 8mhz cpu in
SECONDS FLAT !!!

Admittedly, each MFPC.exe "user created" database file could only hold
32,768 records but, it was a "relational" database system, and the
"displays," (roughly equivalent to "forms" in Access, ..i think), were
stored in each *.mft file, (i think that was the filetype), along with
the scripts that one could create to perform arithmetical and other
calculations across records, in each database file. !

Gosh ! if that program was run on my "old" D935 cpu based machine, your work
would be finished LONG before you even started !!!

regards, Richard