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What to do when you need to share an Answer File with a colleague who is not connected to the same network? Or, you're about to change from the Chicago branch to New York, each of which maintains its own Path? Here is a demonstration of how to move an Answer file or the entire Answer folder from one location to another.
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Another example is, sometimes you'll have a very large firm and they've got their answer files, divided by division, or maybe they have multiple locations, and their Chicago location has one set of files and their New York location has another set of answer files just because of the way their servers are set up. So What if I work in the Chicago when I'm moving to the New York office and I wanna take all of my client information with me rather than recreate it? Recreating it.
I can do it by following this process. Look in your options path screen. That tells you where docs are or the form tool or docs DB where the program is storing your information, whether it be answer files or folios, master lists, all kinds of different groupings of information that get saved in the background by Doxera or the form tool. This tells you where that is.
So if you browse to that location, just using Windows file explorer, And I'm gonna copy this path here so that I don't have to type it. I'm pressing I've selected it. I'm pressing control c to copy that path.
Then I'm going into Windows file explorer, and up here in the address bar rather than I could just browse to it manually. But rather than do that, I'm just gonna paste in that path that I copied and press enter to take myself directly there. And here's all the background information that the program maintains.
You don't ordinarily get in this area. If you find yourself in this area, get out because you don't wanna be, accidentally deleting or rearranging or renaming any of this information, that would break your program.
But you'll see in here we do have an answers folder.
And if I'm gonna open up that folder, if you have subdivided your answers, into subfolders, you'll see all of those subfolders here as well. And then you'll see the an answer files themselves.
Up at the top of the list, if you're sorting alphabetically, you'll see some with, filters those squiggle squiggly marks at the front of the file name. You'll see some with tildes and gates These are backup files because, answer files can can get very large and very valuable the program keeps backups of those answer files in case anything gets accidentally deleted or trashed. So you can ignore all these top ones, the ones with the tilde at the front. Those are, backup files.
And then the live ones are here without the till views at the front. And you could if I if you wanna to take all of your answer files with you, you could just copy all of these files into your new setting. Or if you wanna pick and choose, that's fine too. You can just select the ones you want, copy those, then go to your new location.
You will find in your new location whatever path is being used there.
Let me go up a level here.
In your new location, There will also be a folder where answers and other information is stored. Go into that.
Answers folder at your new location, go into any sub folder if that's appropriate and paste the answers where you want them in your new location. They'll be immediately available for use.