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Running the Antique Map Price Record Program from the Hard Disk
Under
normal circumstances you must have the AMPR CD-ROM inserted in the CD-ROM drive
in order to run the Antique Map Price Record program. This is because the AMPR’s
database resides on the CD-ROM and is not copied to the hard disk as part of
the installation procedure. The following instructions, however, will allow you
to copy the database to your hard disk and to run the program without having
the CD-ROM inserted in the drive. These
steps require you to know the installation directory of the AMPR program. In
most cases the installation directory is C:\Program Files\AMPR. (When
you installed the program, you were given the option of selecting some other
location. In the following steps the installation directory is referred to as
<INSTALL_DIRECTORY>. Please identify the installation directory on your
computer, and then use that directory name wherever the following steps specify
<INSTALL_DIRECTORY>.) Also, the
following steps will result in about 90MB being copied to the hard disk that
contains the <INSTALL_DIRECTORY>.
Be sure that you have adequate free disk space to accommodate this.
1)
Make
sure that you are not currently running the AMPR program. If necessary, exit
from the AMPR program before proceeding.
2)
If
you haven’t already done so, insert the AMPR CD-ROM into your computer’s CD-ROM
drive.
3)
Copy
the “data” folder from the top-level directory of the CD-ROM to the
<INSTALL_DIRECTORY> on your hard disk. Be sure that you copy the “data”
folder itself, and not just the files within the “data” folder. One way to do
this copy is to open the Windows Explorer (right-click on the Start menu at the
lower-left of your screen and pick “Explore”); then drag the “data” folder from
the CD to the <INSTALL_DIRECTORY> on your hard disk. When the copy is completed, there will be a
new folder on your hard disk: <INSTALL_DIRECTORY>\data. If you use the
normal location for the installation directory, this new folder will be
C:\Program Files\AMPR\data. (This data directory will contain about 90MB
of data in nearly 500 files and sub-directories).
You
are now done. Be sure to remove the
CD-ROM from your computer before starting the program. All data will now be accessed from the hard
disk.
In
the future, when you upgrade to the next edition of the AMPR CD-ROM, you will
need to re-copy the “data” directory from the new CD-ROM to your hard disk, so
that the hard-disk copy of the data files matches the files needed by the
latest version of the program.
If
you have any problems or questions with these instructions, please contact:
Jeremy
Pool
MapRecord
Publications
617-661-3718
Fax:
617-868-1229