Unload Command

Use the Unload command from the Folders menu to unload a definition of your folders to a file.

The Unload command unloads only a definition of the existing folder hierarchy and not the contents (reports and templates) of those folders. If you intend to backup your reports and templates to a separate file, use the Unload Definition command from the File menu of the Jade Report Writer Designer application. For details, see "Unload Definition Command", in Chapter 4.

To unload your folders

  1. Select the Unload command from the Folders menu. The Extract Folders dialog is then displayed.

  2. Enter the full location and name for your folder definition file in the File Name text box or click the Browse button to display a common dialog in which you can select your file location and name.

  3. To use UTF-8 BOM encoding in the folder definition file, check the Use UTF-8 file encoding check box. If you do not check this check box, the file is output in native ANSI or Unicode format.

    The User Preferences screen enables you to specify the default setting of this check box. For details, see "Preferences Command", later in this chapter.

  4. Click the Unload button to save your folder definitions to the specified file. Alternatively, click the Close button to abandon the unloading operation.

The folders are then saved to the specified file. For details about retrieving unloaded folders by using the Load command, see "Load Command", in the following subsection.