Updating to new version of Fahmon without losing your data

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I'm sure most of us do this but for the ones that don't he's a quice 'how to'

Fahmom is a monitoring programe that tracks your current WU's progress, Avaliable here Fahmon 2.1.5
It also keeps a running set of data for WU's completed inc ppd and Min/Avg step timings (1% of a WU)
This is accessable via the FahMon menu and selecting benchmarks... or Ctrl+B

Anyway when upgarding to a new version you might want to keep your benchmark data/and clients so here what you do.
Download Fahmon zip file to desktop
extract archive to desktop (it's creates it's own folder)
Double click the FahMon.exe file and download new projects when asked.
Close FahMon.
Now browse to your existing Fahmon folder - for me that's C:\FahMon
Next open the config folder.
You should see four files copy all four to your clipboard
Now Paste these into the config folder in the desktop Fahmon folder (C:\Documents and Settings\'user name'\Desktop\FahMon\config)
Say yes to overwrite.
Now copy everything in the Desktop Fahmon folder into your existing Fahmon folder, overwrite everything.
Job done - and as a bonus, all your short cuts are still active.

Run Fahmon and you've got all your benchmarks and client installed plus any new feactures.

Hope that helps - feel free to edit / add to sticky as you see fit ;)
 
Oooh very nice. Not really bothered about benchmarks but I am sure it would come in handy for others. Nice one.
 
I've always just extracted the whole lot straight in to the fahmon folder. Perhaps the benchmarks are stored in a file which isn't replaced in new versions?
 
joeyjojo said:
I've always just extracted the whole lot straight in to the fahmon folder. Perhaps the benchmarks are stored in a file which isn't replaced in new versions?

Actually now you say that...... I think your right - as the config folder isn't part of the zip archive, only is active after the exe is run.

Hay ho - joeyjojo way, is the way to go :D
Been living with windows so long I forget open source programs are better scripted. Having said that I'm giving up on Ubuntu in VMware - might try duel boot instead, when I've hooked up second HHD.
 
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