Running AIFILES from Icon in
Appraise-It 3.2
If you are running Appraise-It and have a system crash, shut down windows improperly, or Appraise-It crashes, temporary files or recovered files are frequently left behind in Appraise-It’s temporary folder (TRAPRIV). Such crashes can also corrupt auxiliary files in Appraise-It’s TRA directory. These files can cause various errors, slow down your system, and impede Appraise-It’s performance. Running AIFILES will clean out these problem files. It also helps speed up Appraise-It if you close it every hour.
To Run AIFILES
1. Save your work.
2. Close Appraise-It.
3. Run AIFILES by double clicking on the icon you will create below. (WARNING! Be certain Appraise-It is closed on the computer before running AIFILES. It is not necessary to have Appraise-It closed on each workstation, just on the workstation where you are running AIFILES.)
To Create AIFILES ICON
1.
Open
Windows Explorer (Start-Programs-Windows Explorer)
a) On the upper Tool bar, click on VIEW
i)
Click
on VIEW and select DETAILS.
(Also, make sure there is a check next to STATUS BAR under View.)
ii) Click on VIEW and select OPTIONS (or Folder Options) at the bottom.
(1) Click on the VIEW tab.
(2) Uncheck Hide File Extensions or MS DOS file extensions.
(3) Select SHOW ALL FILES.
(4) Click OK
i)
On the left side of the screen under Folders, double click the [C:]
drive (It is below 3 ½ floppy A.)
(1) On the left side of the
screen, double click the TRA directory
(2) On the left side of the
screen, double click the TECH
directory
(3) On the right side of the screen, right
click the AIFILES.BAT file
(4) Left click Send
to – Desktop as Sho
(5) Close Windows Explorer
2.
On
your Windows Desktop
a) Right click on the MS DOS
icon, AIFILES
b) Left click Prope
c) Left click Program
d) Left click Close
on Exit
e) Click OK
3. Also, would also be a good
practice to hit ctrl+S (the short cut for File – Save) every few minutes
as you work. One reason for doing so is
because AIFILES will delete recovered files anyway so you may wish to turn off
AutoSave in Appraise-It. Another reason
for doing so, is that File – Save is a genuine
save. AutoSave and the recovered files
it produces frequently causes problems in any Windows program, and it is not as
reliable as a genuine save. This is the reason AIFILES was designed to deleted
recovered files. To turn off AutoSave:
i)
In Appraise-It
ii)
Click Options – Auto-Save
(1) Set it to 0.
(2) Click OK