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3.19. Manual Backup: How to make a backup of your EstiMate Data if you can't get into EstiMate

Q:  My hard drive failing, and I can't open EstiMate, and I don't have any backups.  How can I backup my data/save my data?

 

A:  If the drive is still accessible to grab files off of you should be able to get your data off of there, and onto another media like a USB Flash Drive, or CD-R.

 

The default location of the EstiMate database is:

C:\Documents And Settings\All Users\Application Data\EstiMate\Data

Under Vista it's:

C:\Program Data\EstiMate\Data

If you use the EstiMate Multi-User Server then your data should already be safely on another computer unless the computer with the failing drive is the one that the Multi-User Server is installed on.  If the latter is the case then the data will be located by default at:

C:\Documents And Setting\All Users\Application Data\EstiMate\Multi-User Data

 

You simply need to navigate to the appropriate location, and make a copy of that entire folder ("Data", or "Multi-User Data" - it will have 47 files in it; all *.nx1 files, and 1 *.cfg file).

 

NOTE:  Since you can pretty much create an EstiMate database/folder anywhere on your computer or network if you ever selected another location for your data you will need to go to that location.  If you need to you can search for "*.nx1" w/o the quotes, and it will show you all of the locations on your computer that those files exist.  Just make sure the the folder you copy is more then 2.0MB (this is the default size of an EstiMate Data folder).  If you do have any backups made from EstiMate they would be "zip" files.