Restore is used to move your royalty files from the back-up disk to AnyBook's program directory.  Use Restore after you've re-installed the program or moved the program to a different computer.

In order to use Restore, you must regularly back up your files each time you exit from the program.  The program is set up to back up files in this manner, and as long as the back up procedure hasn't been turned off in Basic Set-up, you'll keep your back-up disk updated and ready for a Restore if it becomes necessary.

If you ever have a serious file problem that is caused by a file damaging event (such as a power outage, power spike, a defective disk drive or by turning off the computer when the program is on), the Restore feature can help get you up and running again.  Indications of damaged files are the following: odd characters and gibberish appearing in the blanks of the Set-up Screen, information that is missing, or information that is not properly lined up in the blanks.

When you restore in the main AnyBook program, all long as "Include Royalty Files" is checked, then AnyBook will restore the royalty files along with all of its other data files.

You can also restore directly from the Royalty module.  To access it, go to the Main Menu in Royalty Functions and select FILE and RESORE ROYALTY FILES from the Menu Bar.  The following dialog box appears:

You don't want to indiscriminately use Restore since you can lose any reports that have added since your last back-up.  However, if no reports have been added or changed since the last back-up, then you won't lose anything.

The Restore dialog box will appear and will list your default back-up drive.  If you need to change to another drive, click on "Browse" (or double-click in the drive blank) and a list of available drives will appear.  When the correct drive is listed, make sure your back-up disk is inserted, and click on OK.  Your back-up files will overwrite the problem files on your program disk, and you'll be ready to continue.