I have Beer Smith on a portable hard drive and create my recipes on a Win 7 machine and carry the HD to a XP machine to print my brew sheet. It works without trouble 95% of the time but... I went to plug in my OG after brewing today and I had the usual problem where my recipes were visible but the ingredients window was blank.
This is all done on my portable hard drive: I created a new folder in the Beer Smith folder and moved all my recipe files to that file, started Beer Smith, and now no recipes are visible (there are no recipes, my recipes are gone as well as the sample recipes). I moved the recipe files back to their previous location and re-started Beer Smith but no recipes are visible. Then I deleted the newopts14 file and there was no change so I deleted both the newopts and newopts14 files, again no change and my recipes are not visible. So, I'm stopping before I do more harm than good.
Also the virtual store folder on my computer's C drive is empty.
I assume reinstalling is probably the best, easiest repair. Which files do I need to copy from my old Beer Smith to the new? I have a lot of ingredients so I would like to copy over my inventory items in addition to my recipes.
This is all done on my portable hard drive: I created a new folder in the Beer Smith folder and moved all my recipe files to that file, started Beer Smith, and now no recipes are visible (there are no recipes, my recipes are gone as well as the sample recipes). I moved the recipe files back to their previous location and re-started Beer Smith but no recipes are visible. Then I deleted the newopts14 file and there was no change so I deleted both the newopts and newopts14 files, again no change and my recipes are not visible. So, I'm stopping before I do more harm than good.
Also the virtual store folder on my computer's C drive is empty.
I assume reinstalling is probably the best, easiest repair. Which files do I need to copy from my old Beer Smith to the new? I have a lot of ingredients so I would like to copy over my inventory items in addition to my recipes.