Introduction | Some Basics | Installing Weight a'Minute | Upgrading From Previous Versions Settings Screen | Details Screen | Analysis Screen | Find Screen | About Screen Utilities Menu | Registering Weight a'Minute | Contacting lambert/rubicon
# UTILITIES MENU There are a number of features in Weight a'Minute that are only accessible from the Utilities menu at the top of the screen. This page tells you about these. There are many more menu options that are available if you have purchased the full FileMaker Pro version of Weight a'Minute and are running it from within FileMaker Pro. We have assumed, however, that in this case you are familiar with FileMaker Pro and, if not, have access to the FileMaker Pro manuals and on-line help. If you are using the non-FileMaker Pro version, most of the menu options are greyed out and unavailable. However, the functions of many of these menu options are accessible from buttons on the screens of Weight a'Minute (and are explained in these manual pages). The main options from the Utilities menu are: Backing up your data. Restoring your data. Importing data from previous versions. Contacting lambert/rubicon. ## Backup To... To back up your data, go to the Utilities menu. The Utilities menu looks like this:
### Utilities Menu
From this menu, you can either: Backup to a tab-delimited text file, or; Backup to a comma-separated text file. If you want to analyse the backup file in another application – for example, Microsoft Excel – then you should check the manual for that application to determine which text format they prefer. You should backup your data regularly. It is important that you do not move the backup.txt file from the Weight a'Minute folder. Weight a'Minute looks for that file when you want to restore data. ## Restore From Backup,... To restore your data, go to the Utilities menu. (Scroll back up the page if you cannot see what the utilities menu looks like.) From this menu, you can either: Replace the data in Weight a'Minute with whatever data is in the backup file; or Add the data in the backup file to the data that is in Weight a'Minute. If you choose to use the "replacing data" option, please be careful that you are not going to be losing any data, as there is no undo. ## Importing Data From Previous Versions This is covered in another page of this manual. ## Contacting lambert/rubicon From this part of the Utilities menu you can choose either to send lambert/rubicon an email or to go to the lambert/rubicon web site. The lambert/rubicon email address and web site location is stated in the About screen and also in the contacting lambert/rubicon page of this manual.
Introduction | Some Basics | Installing Weight a'Minute | Upgrading From Previous Versions Settings Screen | Details Screen | Analysis Screen | Find Screen | About Screen Utilities Menu | Registering Weight a'Minute | Contacting lambert/rubicon