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LW3 - VW11.5 issues


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I have followed the steps in the manual meticuously.

I have saved the export from LW3 as ".lwa", ".txt" and generic all.

I cannot under any circumstances import from LW3 to VW11.5. As a matter of fact I couldn't do it in 10.5 either.

What the Hades am I missing??? Do I need LW4 for this to work?

Jim Terry

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It should work. When you export from LW, only export the fields you need in VW. The import to VW will fail if you attempt to use all of the available LW fields. Make sure you replace a space with '-', and export as tab delimited file.

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ISSUE RESOLVED!!!!

There is an extra step that I discovered by reading some of the buried LightWright Posts.

Apparently, upon importing back into SpotLight, one has to REFRESH INSTRUMENTS.

Perhaps this is just an obvious step known to all but me, but it would have been nice to put it in the manual!

Still, I love the product and now I love it even more!

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"only export the fields you need in VW"

If you mean by this, only fields that work in both

LW and VW. I have done this.

"Make sure you replace a space with '-', and export as tab delimited file"

Does this imply that I should put a "-" in all of my blank LW fields?

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