Updating from Previous Versions of Hansa
The latest version of Hansa is always available from Hansa's website,
www.hansaworld.com, from where upgrades should be obtained. If you are online, clicking the [Hansaworld.com] button in the Master Control panel will take you to this site.
Inevitably, new versions will incorporate significant structural changes. Because of this, it cannot be guaranteed that they will be able to open databases created by previous versions unless the export and import functions are used.
To upgrade, follow these steps:
- Before installing the new version, create a database back-up as usual using the old application.
- Download the new version of Hansa and install it in a new folder or directory.
- Ensure that the new folder or directory contains the "DBDef.txt" and "Default.txt" files, but not a "Hansa.HDB" file. Ensure it also contains a folder or directory named "Backup" which in turn contains the back-up file created in step 1, and that this file is named according to the DOS naming convention.
- Copy the following folders and their contents from the old Hansa folder to the new one: "Attach"; "Halcust"; "Shared"; "Tmp"; "Web"; and "Webcust". You may not have all of these folders in your installation: if so, copy the ones that you do have and don't worry about those that are missing. Do NOT copy the "Hob" folder.
- Launch the new Hansa application. A new database is created.
- Import the back-up created by the previous version of Hansa using the procedure described on the Restoring from a Back-up page.
For reasons of speed, it is recommended that backing up, restoring and upgrading are carried out on the server machine in multi-user systems. If this is not possible, a single client machine should be used. If you have separate back-up files for different Companies, they should be imported individually. Attempting to import them simultaneously using different client machines could result in data being lost.
- In multi-user systems, the new Hansa application should now be installed on all client machines. Repeat steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 above on each machine. If you have any Client Text Backup files, these should be imported to the new databases on the relevant machines as per step 6 above.
