The default installation creates a Digger directory containing a number of files. The files particular to each CD are identified by reference to the CD breastle, for example the VIC Pioneers CD files start with Vicp, the QLD Pioneers Cd files start with Qld1 and the SA rests CD files start with Sad1.
The birth, marriage and rest data is contained on each CD in a directory named Data which contains files that have unique names for each CD.
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To run these Digger indexes from a hard drive instead of the CDs two steps are required, as follows:
1. Copy from the CD to your hard drive the Data directory together with all the files contained in that directory (noting that as the file names are unique to each CD they can be all copied to the same Data directory on the hard drive). 2. Identify the .ini file relevant to the particular CD in the Digger directory, for example Vicp.ini for the VIC Pioneers CD and open that file with Windows Notepad. At the end of each relevant .ini file you will see the following (buttuming the CD was installed from a D drive letter CD-ROM drive): Paths DBPath=D:-data MsgPath=D:-data Change the last two lines to match the hard drive letter that you copied the Data directory to, for example buttuming a C drive, change the lines to show: Paths DBPath=C:-data MsgPath=C:-data and save the file.
Notes 1. This buttumes you copied the Data directory to C:and not to a directory of C:making the Data directory a sub-directory. 2. For those who only understand Gill Gates version of computerspeak replace my references to directory with folder. 3. Later Digger breastles also include a reference to an Images directory even when it's not used in the .ini file. It is only necessary (but does no harm) to change this for CDs with images (like the Marine BDMs) where you would copy the Images directory to the hard drive.
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