Choven1218
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My work laptop required a complete reload, which caused me to lose all of my recipes. Fortunately, the IT guy made an image of the drive prior to wiping it clean. I've followed the advice from this forum and tried a number of different recovery options, but nothing has worked. I'm running WinXP, and this is what i've tried.
1. I've copied only the *.bsm files from the old drive image into the new beersmith directory. The program opens but I lose all of the tables (no hops, grain, equipment, mash profiles, etc.) and I do not have my recipes.
2. The new installation seems to work fine. So I tried to import the old *.bsm files. I always get "An unknown error occurred while accessing [FileLocation]\*.bsm". If I click on the "Scratch Pad" location in beersmith (where the import should occur), I get "BeerSmith Brewing Program has encountered a problem and need to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." message and the program crashes.
3. I've tried to copy the *.BAK files and recover the tables to no avail. The program asks which table to open, then asks if I want to save the current table. I've tried 'yes' and 'no' option, but the recovery seems to have no effect. That is, my old tables (recipes, hops, mash profiles, etc.) do not appear.
4. I have installed a new version then copied the old beersmith folder to the new beersmith folder. I clicked yes to all when asked if I want to replace files of the same name. After doing this, beersmith would not open. The DOS window pops up and closes, and that's it. I then downloaded "beersmith_patch.zip" (I think I have the name correct) which was just the beersmith.exe file, but I get a message saying that the program is not configured correctly.
I might only have about 14 recipes entered into the program, and I have 8 or so that were printed so I have those recipes. I'm not going to be devastated if I don't recover the recipes, but I would like to retrieve them so that I can adjust the recipe that next time I make the beer. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks...
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1. I've copied only the *.bsm files from the old drive image into the new beersmith directory. The program opens but I lose all of the tables (no hops, grain, equipment, mash profiles, etc.) and I do not have my recipes.
2. The new installation seems to work fine. So I tried to import the old *.bsm files. I always get "An unknown error occurred while accessing [FileLocation]\*.bsm". If I click on the "Scratch Pad" location in beersmith (where the import should occur), I get "BeerSmith Brewing Program has encountered a problem and need to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." message and the program crashes.
3. I've tried to copy the *.BAK files and recover the tables to no avail. The program asks which table to open, then asks if I want to save the current table. I've tried 'yes' and 'no' option, but the recovery seems to have no effect. That is, my old tables (recipes, hops, mash profiles, etc.) do not appear.
4. I have installed a new version then copied the old beersmith folder to the new beersmith folder. I clicked yes to all when asked if I want to replace files of the same name. After doing this, beersmith would not open. The DOS window pops up and closes, and that's it. I then downloaded "beersmith_patch.zip" (I think I have the name correct) which was just the beersmith.exe file, but I get a message saying that the program is not configured correctly.
I might only have about 14 recipes entered into the program, and I have 8 or so that were printed so I have those recipes. I'm not going to be devastated if I don't recover the recipes, but I would like to retrieve them so that I can adjust the recipe that next time I make the beer. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks...
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