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From: (Barrie Archer)
Subject: cvs commit: UKGEN-FreeBMD/html vol_faq.html
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:58:08 +0000 (GMT)


barrie 10/12/16 23:58:08

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Add 3(k) How can I tell if my district file is up to date

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<li><a href="#3h">How do I transcribe a special character that is not included in the WinBMD Special Characters list?</a>
<li><a href="#3i">What do I do if the scan is incomplete?</a>
<li><a href="#3j">Why do I get "Unable to send invalid file"?</a>
+ <li><a href="#3k">How can I check if my district file is up to date?</a>
</ol><br>
<li><a href="#4">BATCH HEADER QUERIES</a><br><br>
<ol type=a>
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which are rows for which you have not entered anything in the Age at Death field. If a field is empty you should transcribe ? for the field. Enter ? for Age at Death in each of the rows given in the message.
<li>You have entered a district/volume combination that WinBMD does not accept by temporarily switching off district validation. The solution here is to switch off district validation when sending the file. Switch it on again after successfully uploading the file.
</ul>
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+<h4><a name=3k>3 (k)&nbsp;How can I check if my district file is up to date?</a></h4>
+WinBMD automatically downloads the latest version of the district file when you upload a file if your version of the district file is out of date (WinBMD version 6 and later). You can also force a download in WinBMD by selecting File/Download district file.
+<p>
+It has been found that sometimes WinBMD appears to get confused about the version of the district file you have in use and so will not download a newer version because it thinks you already have it when you don't. You can check this out as follows:
+<ul>
+<li>to find out the version number of the latest district file click on this <a href="/cgi/show-version.pl?url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/addons/winbmd/Districts.txt">link</a>;
+<li>to find out the version number of the file you are using click on this <a href="/cgi/show-version.pl">link</a>, click on <b>Browse</b> and navigate to \Program Files\WinBMD\Files and do <b>Open</b> on the file <code>Districts.txt</code>. Now click on <b>Get data file version</b>. This should give you the version or say that the version is not recognised.
+</ul>
+If the latest version is not the same as the one you are using do the following:
+<ul>
+<li>close WinBMD if it is open
+<li>edit <code>\Program Files\WinBMD\WinBMD.ini</code>
+<li>scroll to the end of the file and remove the line starting with "DistrictFileVersion"
+<li>start WinBMD
+<li>do File/Download district file
+</ul>
+
<h3><a name=4>4 CORRECTING BATCH HEADERS WHICH HAVE WRONG DETAILS</a></h3>

<h4><a name=4a>4 (a) &nbsp; What do I do to correct the Batch Header? It won't let me edit the details!</a></h4>
@@ -1354,7 +1373,7 @@
<h4><a name="13l">13 (l) &nbsp;My local access point to the fiche or film says they aren't allowed to let me copy pages</a></h4>
<P>The copyright holders will grant <A HREF="/Permission.html">permission</A>.
<p><p>
-<i>Last Updated 13th November 2010</i>
+<i>Last Updated 16th December 2010</i>
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