Re: HELP! I just screwed up my Project!

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The easiest way that involves no extra software is to periodically zip up
all the source files.

Dave O.

"Ed" <ed_millis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Let me know if that is of interest to you. If so I will post.
I am definitely interested in anything that will save me from having to
recreate an entire pile of spaghetti from scratch!

Ed

"AK" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ed,

By "portability" it sounds like might be wanting to make "development
versions" of your projects so that if you mess things up you can "roll"
back everything what you know worked "the day before yesterday", or even
10 min ago. (We all have been there. You will be too if you continue the
path of enlightment.)

I have a brute force way of doing this and use it relogiously when we
start an initiative that we suspect in the slightest will get us
entangled in the jungle. Saved my bacon on more than one occasion.

Is that correct that this is what you are wanting to do? Since you ar
using Learning Edition I assume that you are learning - if that is the
case, I recommend now that you think about protecting your set points so
that you can roll back. PS Backup software has some limitations on VB
projects.

Let me know if that is of interest to you. If so I will post.

AK


"Ed" <ed_millis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a folder containing all of my project. This is VB6, Learning
Edition. This has not been made an exe yet. In this folder is:
Project1.vbp
Project1.vpw
Form1.frm
Form1.frx
MyFileList.frm

Form1 is the start-up form, and is named "Main". One of the lines on
Form_Load is to pick up App.Path. To test this, I had the bright idea
to move the entire folder into another folder. **Dumbness #1 - _moved_
folder; did not copy!!**

I double-clicked the vbp to open it. Right away I noticed Form1, while
in the folder, was not included in the project. **Dumbness #2 - did not
immediately stop everything and ask for help. Instead, I used Add File
to add Form1 from the folder into the Project.**

With the code open, I hit F5 to launch the project. I get a critical
fault: "Main can't be module, type, project, or form name." Well, I'm
in this deep anyway - so I renamed Form1 from "Main" to "StartUp". Now
I get the error message: "Must have startup form or Sub Main()."

A bit like asking for help changing the oil when the engine's seized -
but can this be fixed?

Ed







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