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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:18 am 
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I just got a new computer. How do I transfer the program and info from one computer to another. Thanks! Great program!!


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:29 pm 
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All your data is inside the coollection file \Coollector\Coollections\MyCoollection.cool

Please have a look at the tutorial about coollection files.


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:13 pm 
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I need to transfer my data from my destop to my wife's laptop. Do I put the "MyCoollection.cool" file on a CD and copy it to her laptop? I'm a bit confused as to the proper procedure.


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Hi Raised Grain !

Raised Grain wrote:
Do I put the "MyCoollection.cool" file on a CD and copy it to her laptop?


Yes :)

If you have installed Coollector on your wife's laptop, there should be a "MyCoollection.cool" file in her "My Documents\Coollector" folder. You just replace it with your own.

Note: if you want to have several coollections on the same computer, you can place them wherever you want, but you'll have to click them directly to use them. Because when you launch the Coollector program, it'll always read "My Documents\Coollector\MyCoollection.cool" by default.


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(cool) Hector wrote:
Hi Raised Grain !

Raised Grain wrote:
Do I put the "MyCoollection.cool" file on a CD and copy it to her laptop?


Yes :)

If you have installed Coollector on your wife's laptop, there should be a "MyCoollection.cool" file in her "My Documents\Coollector" folder. You just replace it with your own. Do I delete her folder before replacing it with the new one?
Note: if you want to have several coollections on the same computer, you can place them wherever you want, but you'll have to click them directly to use them. Because when you launch the Coollector program, it'll always read "My Documents\Coollector\MyCoollection.cool" by default.
I tried to click on the file and have it open and I got a dialog box that told me it can't recognize the file extension.
Thanks for the quick reply.


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:11 pm 
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Raised Grain wrote:
Do I delete her folder before replacing it with the new one?

It's not necessary. The only thing you have to do is be sure that Coollector is not running.

Raised Grain wrote:
I tried to click on the file and have it open and I got a dialog box that told me it can't recognize the file extension.

That's strange. When you install Coollector, it gets associated with the ".cool" files. Maybe you need to reinstall Coollector (no need to uninstall before).


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:22 pm 
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Hmmm. If I reinstall Coolector will I lose all of my data I have input? Sorry to be such a pain but I really would hate to lose all I have done with a reinstallation.


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You won't lose your data. Since version 2.05, even uninstalling doesn't erase your personal data. If you uninstall, the only loss would be the pictures that have been cached on your hard drive.

If you install Coollector again, the association with the ".cool" will probably be fixed.

P.S: what Windows do you use ? Because I remember that I did not test the ".cool" association with Windows Vista, and maybe there's a bug, I don't know.


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I just thought about it: you don't need to reinstall to fix the association.

When you get the dialog box that tells you it can't recognize the file extension, you can choose which program to use to read that file. Choose Coollector and make this association permanent (there's a checkbox for that).


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I tried that when I first got that dialog box and Coolector was not on the list. I just looked now and it's not there. I Have WIndows XP on both computers. I will save the Coolector file and reinstall coolector and hope that all will be well afterwards.


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Yes, it's not on the list, but there's a "browse... " button.

You'll find it wherever you installed it (by default in your "Program Files" folder).


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I remind you that you really need this file association only if you want to have several .cool files on the same computer. Right ?


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OK. If that's the case then I'll leave well enough alone. We'll only have the one file. Thanks again.


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Raised Grain wrote:
OK. If that's the case then I'll leave well enough alone. We'll only have the one file.

Yes, the file association allows to open a .cool file by clicking it. If you launch the Coollector program, it will open the .cool file from the default location, creating it if it doesn't already exist.

Raised Grain wrote:
Thanks again.

I'm happy to help.


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