17 July 2008

SARS e@syFile Employers Manual Backup & Restore

Our HR people had a problem with the new SARS e@syFile Employers application. On opening the program it could pop-up with a window saying
"The application has started from the incorrect icon. Please start e@syFile - employers from the desktop icon"

Even if you open the program from the desktop icon it still gives you this error.
I found that you can do the following to fix this.
  1. goto
    Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\EasyFileEmployer.{hash}\Localstore\
    Windows Vista: C:|Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\easyFileEmployer.{hash}
    \Localstore\
  2. Copy the EasyFile.db and easyFile-employer.air files to a safe location.
  3. Uninstall the e@syFile Employer application.
  4. Re-install the program from the setup file
  5. Copy the EasyFile.db and easyFile-employer.air files back to the directory.
    Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\EasyFileEmployer.{hash}\Localstore\
    Windows Vista: C:|Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\easyFileEmployer.{hash}
    \Localstore\
  6. Start the e@syFile program again.
All you data will now be back and the application should run fine.

I would suggest that you backup the EasyFile.db and easyFile-employer.air files on another computer/server or removable disk.

You can write an xcopy script that will copy the files to a server or backup disk and create folders named with the date of the backup like so:

@ECHO OFF
MD E:\PAYEBACKUP\%Date:~0,4%-%Date:~5,2%
CD C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\EasyFileEmployer.{hash}\Localstore\
XCOPY *.* E:\PAYEBACKUP\%Date:~0,4%-%Date:~5,2%\
@ECHO ON

4 comments:

Monty said...

Shot Thanks Man! Worked like a charm

BigG said...

Glad I could help montman.

Anonymous said...

Please help....My computer crashed but our IT guys put my easyfile folders on a different drive. I need to download easy file again but im worried I loose all that I have already done....please help if you can.

BigG said...

You shouldn't loose anything if you have a backup of the files or if your IT guys can access the data on your crashed disk by putting it in another computer. Just make sure that the DO NOT FORMAT YOUR OLD DRIVE!
You should be able to download easyfile again and install it, then copy the data files back as per my post.
Let me know if this helps or not.