Posted: 2/14/2016 11:55:06 AM EDT
| I am new here but am also having issues. I agree stuff happens but I have sent emails to their support on tickets 3 times over a week with no reply. I have used the full version of the program for almost 2 years with no real issues. Now its a disaster. I get error messages when I try to log in but can click past them and enter my password. When it does log in I get a long list of error messages mentioning beta, brownells etc. Now the real bad part it wiped out my database. I was able to recover some of it from the drop box backup. But about 15 entries from the last 2 months are gone. The must have somehow overwritten on the auto backup. Has anyone else tried to contact them or is it time to start looking for another program |
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I know this doesn't help you now, but do yourself a favor and learn access and build your own database.
I don't know who developed mygundb but it is almost guaranteed not to have full Microsoft support as they constantly upgrade OS. I built my database with access and I know it will always stay up to date with no compatibility issues with the newest Microsoft OS. Access is actually very easy to learn, just watch a few youtube videos and model your database like mygundb. Sorry for your loss. 
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I keep track of mine in a spreadsheet in Google docs. It's available from anywhere with a web browser. That is why you save it to Dropbox for GunDB or any other program. Google has done some weird things with my docs. For me, I updated to 10 and it says my GunDB version needs to be updated. It won't let me update! |
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Quoted: I know this doesn't help you now, but do yourself a favor and learn access and build your own database. I don't know who developed mygundb but it is almost guaranteed not to have full Microsoft support as they constantly upgrade OS. I built my database with access and I know it will always stay up to date with no compatibility issues with the newest Microsoft OS. Access is actually very easy to learn, just watch a few youtube videos and model your database like mygundb. Sorry for your loss. Close, but no cigar. SQL is a better answer. IF you're going to bother learning a new DB system, you might as well learn one that doesn't suck and is not tied into proprietary software on a single platform. SQL will run on just about any platform you may run now or in the future, usually for free. Well documented, free tools are available to help you do pretty much anything you want with it. If you're committed to support from Microsoft, they even offer a free version of their SQL server for you to use. (MS SQL Express) If nothing else, you might accidentally gain a skill with value in the business world.  |
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Quoted: It was set to auto updates to drop box. The program somehow corrupted and the drop box version also got wacked and overwritten. Thanks Check your dropbox files online. They have the option to backup a revision on your files in case things get screwed up in the current version. If you've made & sync'd other versions since then, this will not help you, as DB only supports the most limited, single item versioning history. |
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Close, but no cigar. SQL is a better answer. IF you're going to bother learning a new DB system, you might as well learn one that doesn't suck and is not tied into proprietary software on a single platform. SQL will run on just about any platform you may run now or in the future, usually for free. Well documented, free tools are available to help you do pretty much anything you want with it. If you're committed to support from Microsoft, they even offer a free version of their SQL server for you to use. (MS SQL Express) If nothing else, you might accidentally gain a skill with value in the business world.
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I know this doesn't help you now, but do yourself a favor and learn access and build your own database. I don't know who developed mygundb but it is almost guaranteed not to have full Microsoft support as they constantly upgrade OS. I built my database with access and I know it will always stay up to date with no compatibility issues with the newest Microsoft OS. Access is actually very easy to learn, just watch a few youtube videos and model your database like mygundb. Sorry for your loss. Close, but no cigar. SQL is a better answer. IF you're going to bother learning a new DB system, you might as well learn one that doesn't suck and is not tied into proprietary software on a single platform. SQL will run on just about any platform you may run now or in the future, usually for free. Well documented, free tools are available to help you do pretty much anything you want with it. If you're committed to support from Microsoft, they even offer a free version of their SQL server for you to use. (MS SQL Express) If nothing else, you might accidentally gain a skill with value in the business world.
I know some sql language, but there is a huge difference in building a database in access and learning to program an entire language with sql. I taught my grandma how to use access, I seriously doubt I could teach her sql. Access has been around for decades, it's not going anywhere. An sql database is not needed for a few hundred (at most) entries. I might consider sql if I owned a gun warehouse, but not for a personal database. You can learn access and build a database in a week. The same cannot be said about sql IMHO. For this application, I think access is much better. |
| MyGunDB is written in Adobe Air, which is very much alive. It appears that the program has been abandoned by the author. It still works fine, with the exception of some external http calls that the author has written into the initialization part of the code. The address of these calls have either changed or are no longer available, so they fail. It is possible that these external calls are used somewhere in the program, but it must be a part that I don't use. If you just answer "OK" to the first 3 error messages, you are taken into the main program, which works fine. Its too bad. If he/she is going to abandon the project, it would have been nice for he/she to remove these, as the program is pretty nice. Attempts to contact the author have been unanswered. |
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Quoted: I know some sql language, but there is a huge difference in building a database in access and learning to program an entire language with sql. ... You can learn access and build a database in a week. The same cannot be said about sql IMHO. For this application, I think access is much better. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I know this doesn't help you now, but do yourself a favor and learn access and build your own database. ... Sorry for your loss. ... I know some sql language, but there is a huge difference in building a database in access and learning to program an entire language with sql. ... You can learn access and build a database in a week. The same cannot be said about sql IMHO. For this application, I think access is much better. Nobody mentioned working from a command line. SQL has tools every bit as simple as Access for managing simple DBs. As for the learning curve, from a blank slate it took me about half a day to install, import 30-40k records from some stupidly large excel sheets, and start extracting usable data. No harder than Access or Filemaker or.... |
| Using a spread sheet is fine, but some of us paid money for this program and if the author was not going to support it anymore he should of notified the users and pulled the web site down so that people are not still purchasing it. We paid for a program and support and should be getting it. My support tickets and other methods of contact have also gone unanswered too. |