Running an Offsite Log

When offsite, launch the single-user version of Genie. You will be asked if you want to start offsite logging (provided you have Remind me to start Offsite Logging ticked in your User Preferences, File > User Preferences).

Click Yes.

If logging is successfully started, you will receive a confirmation message and a small window will open in the top right of the screen indicating the size of the log and logging status.

If Genie is unable to start offsite logging, you will receive an error message that logging has not commenced. The usual reason for failure is that the network and single user versions of Genie have different version numbers, or that you haven't taken a fresh copy of the data file. In either of these cases you will not be able to use offsite logging unless the problems are rectified.

When the offsite logging process begins, Genie creates a text file inside the Offsite Log Folder, inside the Genie folder. i.e. C:\Genie\Offsite Log Folder\ or /Applications/Genie/Offsite Log Folder

This file is named using the current date and time, in the format of year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds.

For example, the log file shown here was created on 26/10/2005 at 11:10:43.

This is so that you can easily find a log from a particular day, and secondly, so that when a number of logs are imported back into the main database, they are imported in the correct chronological order.

Note: The log file is just a text file. It can be opened and examined with any word processor.

You should keep an eye on the logging status window to ensure that logging doesn't stop for any reason.  You can re-commence logging if necessary by selecting File > Start Offsite Logging. To stop offsite logging, Quit Genie (File > Quit).