Missing events after HS-Pro upgrade

[jeffy]

Hey folks,
I just updated my software from HS2 to HS2PRO. I got some bum information on the conversion process and help someone can help me through. I have managed to get almost everything up in running, but I can't find the events I created. Are they in the db? Can I recover them some how?

I recently logged another problem in the Ultra-ElkM1 plugin area, because an error started to pop up during the load of the Ultra-M1 plugin. Once the panel is active, the siren goes off. Very annoying. If anyone has ideas for this on, feel free to pop over to that thread.

http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=147231

[Rupp]

Yes, your devices and events are in the config database and there are 10 backups of the database in the config/backup directory if you can't find your original.

[jeffy]

Yes, your devices and events are in the config database and there are 10 backups of the database in the config/backup directory if you can't find your original.

Well Rupp... bummer dude. Apparently when following the simple instructions by Matt, it appears that the sequence of events caused a little disaster. As instructed, I download and installed the HSPRO software. I was told that everything would be peachy and my old configuration would be there automatically. I started the software and it complained that it couldn't find sample.mdb. When HS opened, I could find no traces of my last configuration. After I shutdown, I noticed that it put it in a new HSPRO directory. I looked on the forum to find instructions to move my old config to the new location. I copied all of the config folder (excluding the license directory) to the new HSPRO folder. Somewhere, somehow during this process or sequence of events, I lost my original dbs. Don't know how or if HSPRO is looking in the right directory any more. Other then losing my events, what else is in those tables?

[Rupp]

HomeSeer will no over write these directories so they have to still exist. Look under your old folder (HomeSeer 2) and see if they are there. Also, and I know you do not want to here this now, you should be backing up your entire HomeSeer directory at least weekly. There are a couple of free back up utilities as well as windows backup. I user BackeRupp to backup my HomeSeer folder nightly and maintain 7 copies in case of these emergencies.

[jeffy]

HomeSeer will no over write these directories so they have to still exist. Look under your old folder (HomeSeer 2) and see if they are there. Also, and I know you do not want to here this now, you should be backing up your entire HomeSeer directory at least weekly. There are a couple of free back up utilities as well as windows backup. I user BackeRupp to backup my HomeSeer folder nightly and maintain 7 copies in case of these emergencies.

Hey Rupp,
Nice thought... but somehow they got overwritten. I still don't know how, but I have verified. I can recreate the events easily since I only had a handful since I am just getting started. So I will live to see another day... ;0)

Besides events, is there any other information I lost? I don't see anything yet missing... About backups, is it safe to copy the whole HSPRO directory?