Hello,
I am working with a local history group on transcribing data from photographs of one hundred year old documents. Character recognition programs can't cope with the quality of the documents. We would like to give people a selection of photographs for them to transcribe on to a usb stick. I have created a small database with Visual Data Manager within Visual Basic 6. Unfortunately the database has a fixed file path which defaults to the usb stick it was created on. Some of the people we hope to enrol as transcribers have machines running XP other have Windows 7. When a usb stick is plugged into a different machine from the one that created it, it assumes the next free drive letter which may not be the same as the original which means that the database will not then work. Some of these people are elderly and I cannot expect them to start tinkering with control panel to change the drive letter. The transcribers are not always local so it is not possible to visit them to alter their machines. Does anyone know of a simple way of forcing a usb drive to change the drive letter to a specific letter and will work on both XP and Win7 machines AND which will reside on the usb stick itself. I don't want the stick to have any effect on the machine that it is plugged into. Any suggestions or alternatives would be welcome. (My level of skill with VB would make a novice look expert!)
I am working with a local history group on transcribing data from photographs of one hundred year old documents. Character recognition programs can't cope with the quality of the documents. We would like to give people a selection of photographs for them to transcribe on to a usb stick. I have created a small database with Visual Data Manager within Visual Basic 6. Unfortunately the database has a fixed file path which defaults to the usb stick it was created on. Some of the people we hope to enrol as transcribers have machines running XP other have Windows 7. When a usb stick is plugged into a different machine from the one that created it, it assumes the next free drive letter which may not be the same as the original which means that the database will not then work. Some of these people are elderly and I cannot expect them to start tinkering with control panel to change the drive letter. The transcribers are not always local so it is not possible to visit them to alter their machines. Does anyone know of a simple way of forcing a usb drive to change the drive letter to a specific letter and will work on both XP and Win7 machines AND which will reside on the usb stick itself. I don't want the stick to have any effect on the machine that it is plugged into. Any suggestions or alternatives would be welcome. (My level of skill with VB would make a novice look expert!)