Following a lengthy (but enjoyable) session yesterday and last night (this morning) I believe I have this one cracked now.
I have used a simple method of sharing recently amended data between computers, such as may be needed (for example) after working from a laptop at a job site, and then updating a central computer back at base. It uses a straightforward .zip file named DataPack.zip that can be swapped between computers as an email attachment, on a memory stick,
etc.It sounds simple. But (as with all such things) it still took a while to implement, especially as we're talking about a lot of datafiles (in various directories), some of which are logical candidates for inclusion, whilst others are not. Automatically marking all amended records from selected datafiles, and gathering them into a single .zip file (and "unpacking" it all successfully at the receiving end) was great fun, naturally.
From
avant-projet to
Beta (?)
