dmroeder
Lifetime Supporting Member
Some of you may have noticed that I made a tool to determine what version a APA/MER was create in (V4, 5, 6, etc.). I originally hijacked robbo's thread as I worked worked this out, I thought it would be appropriate to make my own instead of continuing to post in his. Here is the original thread for reference
How it works: YOU MUST HAVE 7zip INSTALLED ON YOUR MACHINE FOR IT TO WORK. Basically I created a directory in your Documents folder called mer_ver. If everything goes as planned you will not see this directory for very long since I delete it when I'm done with it. Your MER/APA gets unzipped into this directory and I take a peak at a couple of files in order to determine the target version, original machines architecture (32bit/64bit) and whether the file was for ME or SE.
If you drag/drop a ACD file or an AutoCAD DWG, it will report what versions those were created in as well. This is something I did a few years ago so I tossed that in there as well.
I won't guarantee that it will work perfectly for everyone but it has worked fine for me and the limited testers I've had. The 32/64 bit thing was pretty unreliable, I made some changes for v1.3 and I think it should be pretty reliable now, at least with the files that I tested with. I think when it does report 32/64 bit it will be accurate (although you guys could convince me otherwise), it's just that sometimes it reports unknown.
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How it works: YOU MUST HAVE 7zip INSTALLED ON YOUR MACHINE FOR IT TO WORK. Basically I created a directory in your Documents folder called mer_ver. If everything goes as planned you will not see this directory for very long since I delete it when I'm done with it. Your MER/APA gets unzipped into this directory and I take a peak at a couple of files in order to determine the target version, original machines architecture (32bit/64bit) and whether the file was for ME or SE.
If you drag/drop a ACD file or an AutoCAD DWG, it will report what versions those were created in as well. This is something I did a few years ago so I tossed that in there as well.
I won't guarantee that it will work perfectly for everyone but it has worked fine for me and the limited testers I've had. The 32/64 bit thing was pretty unreliable, I made some changes for v1.3 and I think it should be pretty reliable now, at least with the files that I tested with. I think when it does report 32/64 bit it will be accurate (although you guys could convince me otherwise), it's just that sometimes it reports unknown.
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