Where the program files are kept: settings, database, logs

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The program keeps all its belongings next to itself, in the folder you unpacked it into. That is convenient: moving the installation means copying the folder.

Next to the program

  • config_gui.txt — all the settings: key, address, orders folder, interval, language, conversion checkboxes. An ordinary text file of the «key=value» kind.
  • synchronize_folders.txt — the routes for copying files to the machines.
  • time.txt — a single number: for how many of the last days to ask the server for orders. 60 by default. The program does not write into this file, it is edited by hand.
  • The database file (with the .db extension) — the list of downloaded orders, the event history, the conversion tasks, the list of copied files and the deletion log. It is exactly from it that the program knows what has already been downloaded and what has not.
  • fonts\Arial-Bold.ttf — the font for drawing labels and maps. Without it, part of the text will be drawn in the wrong typeface.
  • The icon file and vc_redist.x64.exe — system libraries in case Windows does not have them.

Logs

  • 1.log — the main log. New entries are written at the top, so you have to look at the beginning of the file.
  • critical_1.log — critical errors only.
  • invalid_svg_1.log — files that could not be converted.
  • _extract_debug.txt — the details of unpacking the order archives.

The main log can be opened right from the program: the «Log» tab → «Open log file». The «Clear» button on this tab clears only the display in the window, the file itself stays.

The orders folder

This is a separate folder (by default C:\orders), it does not have to be next to the program. Its contents are the unpacked orders, laid out by file type: see What arrives in an order.

Lock files

In the Windows temporary folder (%TEMP%) the program keeps lock files with names ending in _gui.lock, _download.lock and _convert.lock. Inside there is the process number. They prevent two instances of the same type from starting; in more detail — «The program is already running».

What to copy when moving

The settings, the routes, time.txt, the database file and, if you need the history, the orders folder. Without the database file the program will consider all orders new and download them again, and the files already on the disk foreign. Step by step — Full reset and moving to another computer.