Mike Lassiter
11-07-2010, 12:46 PM
First the reason for this came about when the hard drive on my laptop used to run the laser and embroidery machine died. I have a HP Home Server that all my files are backed up to shared between the laptop in the shop and our desktop in our house.
I have had to buy another computer to run the laser on, which came with Windows 7 where I had Windows XP on the laptop.
Those of you using the VLS,PLS, and ILS machines are familiar with the fact that the files sent to the laser driver are stored on the computer and used by the laser driver being sent to the laser when you run them.
I've had to reinstall programs, but of course the files the laser driver processed were saved on the laptop. So when I installed the laser driver software, those files were not there for the driver to use. I have backups done daily automatically to the server so I knew I had those files, but didn't know where they were located. I emailed Universal Laser asking for help as to their location, and was able to copy them back to my new computer. You should consider writing this information down and copying your files to safe media in case you have this problem too. Here is what I have learned:
From Darryl Morton at ULS - the folder (for my ILS series laser) for the files the laser driver saves to is:
Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ULSILS
I ASSUME if you have a VLS or PLS series you need to look at ULSVLS or ULSPLS as the ending folder in the above. I had over 200 files within the laser driver that made over 509 MB of data and over 750 files I believe in the folder. I believe there are 3 files in the folder for each in the laser driver, and you will know you have found them when you see all the files in the folder with a file extension of "tmp". These are the files your laser driver has saved to the computer you are running the laser from.
My problem was I now have a Window 7 64bit computer. The above folder was not created when I installed the laser driver on the new computer. I had to send something from Corel to the laser driver and search thru the folders to find where they belong in Windows 7 because the above Windows XP folder didn't exist on my Windows 7 computer.
In Windows 7 the folder the files are placed in (on my computer anyway) was:
C:\ProgramData\ULSILS
I copied the files from the backup on the server to this folder on my new computer and they now appear in the laser driver.
Even with the files backed up they wouldn't be any use to you if you don't know where they need to placed if you have the same situation as I did.
Thanks to Universal Laser (Ed & Darryl) for the assist. I felt the rest of you should know this so you could be prepared before it happens.
I have had to buy another computer to run the laser on, which came with Windows 7 where I had Windows XP on the laptop.
Those of you using the VLS,PLS, and ILS machines are familiar with the fact that the files sent to the laser driver are stored on the computer and used by the laser driver being sent to the laser when you run them.
I've had to reinstall programs, but of course the files the laser driver processed were saved on the laptop. So when I installed the laser driver software, those files were not there for the driver to use. I have backups done daily automatically to the server so I knew I had those files, but didn't know where they were located. I emailed Universal Laser asking for help as to their location, and was able to copy them back to my new computer. You should consider writing this information down and copying your files to safe media in case you have this problem too. Here is what I have learned:
From Darryl Morton at ULS - the folder (for my ILS series laser) for the files the laser driver saves to is:
Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ULSILS
I ASSUME if you have a VLS or PLS series you need to look at ULSVLS or ULSPLS as the ending folder in the above. I had over 200 files within the laser driver that made over 509 MB of data and over 750 files I believe in the folder. I believe there are 3 files in the folder for each in the laser driver, and you will know you have found them when you see all the files in the folder with a file extension of "tmp". These are the files your laser driver has saved to the computer you are running the laser from.
My problem was I now have a Window 7 64bit computer. The above folder was not created when I installed the laser driver on the new computer. I had to send something from Corel to the laser driver and search thru the folders to find where they belong in Windows 7 because the above Windows XP folder didn't exist on my Windows 7 computer.
In Windows 7 the folder the files are placed in (on my computer anyway) was:
C:\ProgramData\ULSILS
I copied the files from the backup on the server to this folder on my new computer and they now appear in the laser driver.
Even with the files backed up they wouldn't be any use to you if you don't know where they need to placed if you have the same situation as I did.
Thanks to Universal Laser (Ed & Darryl) for the assist. I felt the rest of you should know this so you could be prepared before it happens.