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Restore

 

Note: v7 DICS is installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\OSL-DICS\Data

 

DICS can can un-installed via the standard windows 'uninstall a program' available from the control panel.

 

Important 

 

Before un-installing DICS should make a backup of your records to disk or SD card etc,.  Your records will be contained in DICS’s data file ‘DICS_be.accdb’ by default this file is located in the following directory ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\OSL-DICS\Data’, for non standard installation you will need to locate this file using your file manager.

 

After re-installing DICS simply overwrite the newly created DICS_be.accdb file with the backup file from your disk or SD card etc.  From DICS v7 this file is located in the following directory  ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\OSL-DICS\Data’,

 

DICS does come with its own backup facility which by default offers you the option to backup your data every 10^th use.  Backup files are located by default in the following directory ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\OSL-DICS\Data\BackupData’ and will have the following format ‘DICSBkp110627-2159.accdb’ which is date and time stamped when the backup was created i.e. YYMMDD-HH-MM. 

 

 

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