I've just installed DOSBox 74.2 onto a new Windows 11 machine and installed the batch file and config file into the C:\RECORDER folder as required, exactly as on my old Windows 10 machine.

Recorder 3 opens in DOSBox fine....I enter the user name OK but when I enter my password I get an "Invalid User" message. I'm using the correct user name and password, the Target line in DOSBox Properties is as it should be. All appears to be identical between the two machines.

Any thoughts?

Bob Marsh

Maybe so few of us are using Recorder 3 and exports between copies of R3 are so rare these days that we no longer need to maintain a standard species dictionary.

John Bratton

Except that some background processing encounters the same error and chucks me out to the main screen whenever I pause in doing things, I can still enter records, but can't add them to the index.

I wondered about deleting REV20044.OV or replacing it with an older version, but I have no idea what this will do to my data. Help!

Thanks,

paul smith

It is not the working system I had.  I only have three men options at the top of the page and get the error message
"Your DOS path for temporary files is invalid. Please check environment settings."

I have tried putting Recorder into the same folder on the C drive but that does not work.  Any help would be gratefully received.

I currently have Windows 7 Professional with Windows Virtual PC and a Win XP Virtual Machine installed.

Any help gratefully received.

Matt

We on occasion have to go back to the original R3 database to find out when a record was originally entered and by whom - all the records that were transferred have the same "entered by" and "entered date", that of the date they were transferred into R6. Is there a way to get that information out of Recorder 3, and in to Recorder 6?

We currently have a Recorder 2002 database on an old PC at one of our properties.  The records from this database were transferred to our Recorder 6 database a few years ago with no new records added since.  Before we dispose of the old PC I thought I would double check that all records were moved over successfully.  I have found 85 (out of 15197) which were not.  They relate to multiple surveys and I can't see any common reason why they would not have been copied over.  I have the Taxon_Occurrence_Key for each of these records and would like to transfer them to our Recorder 6 database. 

I would like some advise on the best way to go about this.

Thank you for your time.

Christine Oines

Can anyone supply a set of simple instructions to export a complete Recorder 3.2 database to a single CSV or TAB-delimited text file containing all records and attributes. I have a very well-known moth recorder who has data in this format he wishes to extract to pass on to his County Moth Recorder as a flat file.

Many thanks for any help.

Best wishes,
Les

What you can do is use software like Virtual Box to run a virtual machine (VM) with a 32-bit version of Windows installed and then run Recorder 3 on the VM.

My experience:

- I have Virtual Box running on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.
- I have VMs running 32-bit version of Windows XP SP3 hosted on this system. 
- Recorder 3 (and Recorder 2002) runs fine on these VMs.