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Re: VB project backup utility

From	"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: VB project backup utility
Date	2011-06-05 10:02 -0400
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   I checked their website out of curiosity. It's
still there and there's an email contact address.
Why not write to them? (I was going to download
the software to check it out, but it requires
filling out a marketing survey with personal info.)

  A second option would be to run Regmon/Filemon
when opening the program. If it's not just checking
a hard-coded date then there may be some kind
of file/Registry change that set off the behavior.

  Frankly, it's hard to imagine anyone being so
disorganized that they need special software just
to perform housekeeping on project folders. I always
back up projects I'm working on. I just drag the folder
to a partition on my 2nd hard disk and then do periodic
CD writes. Why does that need special software?

  Assuming that you're not complicating things by sharing
single copies of modules between projects, then I assume
all you're talking about is having an easy way to delete
unused modules. Why not just write a script or simple
program to do that? A VBScript could be written in minutes
to do the following: Drop a folder onto the script. Parse
any .VBP files to list names of CLS, BAS, FRM files. Delete
any files of those types that are not on the list.

  I have a similar sample here:

www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.php5#recur

  There are recursion sample scripts in the download that
search for files in folders. Some very minor edits of the
samples would yield what you need.


________________________________

Are there any freeware vb6 project backup or zipup tools still available for
download?

I have had the one written by Gridlinx called CopyProjectLite for years but
suddenly it is throwing a "version is expired" message. Perhaps the author
thought that years down the road he wanted older copies to expire in the 
event
he had an update :-)

-mhd

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VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-04 22:00 -0400
  Re: VB project backup utility "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-06-04 23:10 -0400
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  Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-04 22:13 -0500
    Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-04 23:54 -0400
  Re: VB project backup utility "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-06-05 10:02 -0400
    Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-05 20:20 -0400
      Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-05 23:51 -0500
      Re: VB project backup utility Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-06-06 10:11 +0100
        Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-06 10:52 -0500
          Re: VB project backup utility Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-06-06 17:09 +0100
            Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-07 09:41 -0500
              Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-07 23:04 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-07 23:06 -0500
                Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-08 10:43 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-06-08 10:49 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-08 11:24 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> - 2011-06-09 06:51 +1000
                Re: VB project backup utility Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-06-09 09:42 +0100
                Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-08 10:44 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-08 14:05 -0500
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            Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-06 14:09 -0500
  Re: VB project backup utility "Tim Rude" <timrude.nospam@nospam.hotmail.com> - 2011-06-06 10:40 -0500
    Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-06 13:28 -0400
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        Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-07 01:07 -0400

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