kitlog pro

[dspender]

Thank you for the guidance regarding my patience. I know I need to exercise more patience. I can appreciate the excitement of his first flight and I suspect I too will be preoccupied at that point. I have been sending emails and phone messages for over a week with no response. Once I realized all my records are on the web only, I began to worry. I can still post to that site with my newly downloaded Kitlog Pro app. It keeps prompting me to register it and I suspect pay another $49.95. On my computer I can only see those postings I have made in the past few days; none of the others over the past two years show up. I am not facile with the mdb file concept. What I desire is to be assured my internet files will not disappear or be corrupted. Better yet, per advisement of those posts to my thread, I would like a hard copy(thumb drive) to store at home. Is there some way I can download to a thumb drive those files on my website? Those files include text and photos which I don't want to lose.

[rleffler]

Dennis,

You aren't going to like my message. The solution is entirely under your control and you don't needs Matt's assistance at all.

There have been many other threads that should be available via search that discuss similiar situations. There is no easy way to recover your data from the mykitlog web site. Matt hosts our builds logs for free and hasn't built an utility program to retrieve the data and import it back into a mdb format. Which by the way, is a Microsoft Access database.

You don't have to pay for another program. You just have to re-enter your existing license key / serial number. You do have to exactly match your name that was used on the initial registration or it won't work. I've done this many times myself.

You can recover your data, but it's going to be painful. I would assume you still have local copies of all your photos. If you don't, right click and "save as" should work, then re-import. Then you have to manually cut and paste the text, one entry at a time.

I bet that once you've done this, you will keep a copy of the mdb file in a safe place and ensure that backup copies are made regularly.

Bob

[dspender]

Thank you for the time you have taken and the suggestions. I will need my IT person to help me do this, if we are able to. Right now I have only lost the ability to see the construction log on my newly downloaded copy of the software. I can still view and add to my construction log on my website. I am going to ask if there is a way to 'open up' or save the postings that are on the web to a more tangible file I can hold onto. There may not be. I would still like to speak with Matt.

[ppilotmike]

I hope this situation gets resolved for you.

[Raymo]

Files on hard drives are not deleted or overwritten (technically speaking).

Find a quality Un-Delete/File Restore program and you might be able to locate the MDB that was visible on your hard drive prior to installing the new application.

Once that area of the drive is overwritten a couple times, the data will be gone forever. This is why drive cleaner programs overwrite each bit on the disk as many as 7 times to really really make data unrecoverable.

[spark68]

I believe your old database file still exists. As I recall, I had to move that file from the old directory for KitLog 1.7 to the new directory for 2.0 and I was in business.

Matt was very helpful with my questions and I'm sure he will respond when he gets caught up with his launch of his RV-8.

[dspender]

I had my IT guy, Duane Webster from Advanced Digital Solutions, look at my dilemma and he quickly remedied my dilemma. This is how he did it;

first search for the database file At c:\ kitlog.mdb you may find more than one
look for the largest one

Rename the kitlog.mdb in the c:\programfilesx86\aeroware\kitlogpro2.0\ to kitlog.old

copy kitlog.mdb from search to kitlogpro2.0 directory

open kitlog program
at the top left pulldown select database
Now onto my quickbuild wings which come tomorrow. That is my last structural build to complete. Plan to have them completed by Oshkosh, pick up my Aerotronics panel at Oshkosh and when I get home my Lycoming and MT 3 blade should waiting for me. You can see I am very happy right now

[dspender]

I was so excited we got this fixed, I forgot the most important element. Thanks to all of you for your suggestions, many of which we used to remedy this obstacle. As before and always, thank you for your guidance.

[xavierm]

Just remember to backup that database as previously suggested.

[dspender]

Standard Operating Procedure.